The Bible as One Story
Creation, fall, covenant, Christ, church, new creation — one arc.
The fundamental and historic teaching of the Christian Church is that the Bible is not a disjointed anthology of ancient texts, nor a mere collection of disparate moral lessons, but a single, cohesive narrative of redemption. This unified story traces the action of the Triune God from the creation of the cosmos, through the tragedy of human rebellion, into the progressive unfolding of a redemptive covenant, culminating in the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and looking forward to the final consummation of all things. The historic Christian consensus affirms that there is only one God who is both the Creator of the world and the Redeemer of humanity, and that the Old and New Testaments are inseparable chapters of His one divine plan.
By the end of this lesson
- Name the six big movements of the biblical story
- Place a familiar passage somewhere on the arc
- Spot how the Old Testament points forward to Jesus
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