Subject: What does the bible say? |
Bible Note: Hi, Brad... The Bible is God's redemptive history, His self-revelation through time, in which His great glory is made manifest from creation through restoration. Someone a lot smarter than I wrote: "Redemptive-history is a translation of the German term Heilsgeschichte (heil meaning 'sacred' and geschichte meaning 'history' or 'story'). History understood as God's self revelation to mankind in the person of Jesus Christ, through whom God purposed to love a people as His own, even to the point of sending His Son in their likeness, being tempted and suffering death on the cross, bearing the full penalty of their sins, that they may live in Him through His resurrection from the dead. The life, death, and resurrection of the Savior, being the means of God's redemptive purpose, was foreshadowed in all of history, specially revealed in the Bible, that those who follow after Christ by His death to the age of His resurrection might know God as faithful to His promises, and have complete access to fellowship with Him without fear of condemnation." I thought that was a good "Nut-Shell" of Scripture. In Him, Doc |