" it cannot be the purpose of Scripture to provide us with certified information about some entity outside its story about us, whether that third entity be God or certain classical religious experiences or the theological history of Israel and the primal church or whatever. Since we and Scripture and what Scripture talks about are not external to one another, since Scripture tells a story about God and us that we are even now living, there is no position from which such exchanges could be conducted — perhaps not even God has such an Archimedean point. This observation kills two historically instantiated errors with one stone. "

― Ellen F. Davis , The Art of Reading Scripture