A human book

"One must read the Bible in a human way, for the Bible is a book written by men for men: the language is human, and human the external means by which it was written and preserved; indeed, when all is said and done, the mind by which the Bible can be understood is human, as is every means of explaining it, as it is the whole purpose and use to which the Bible is applied. So you can certainly believe that the more humanly (in the best sense of the word human) you read the Bible, the nearer you come to the purpose of its Originator, who created men in his own image; and in all works and good deeds where he shows himself to us as God, he acts for us in a human way"

Herder

Perhaps that was the trick from the start: to take the Bible as human, only human, and not as human and divine (which eventually became only divine).