The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious study of it can and should become one of the places where, and the means by which, heaven and earth interlock and God's future purposes arrive in the present.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

It is not about "life after death" as such. Rather, it's a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: "life after 'life after death.

I want to live my life, not record it.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.