Question:
Dear Greg,
My
Sunday school teacher has had a strange idea about what the main point/purpose
of the Bible is. What would your
answer be?
In
Christ,
Melinda
Answer: Dear Melinda,
The
purpose of the Bible is Jesus Christ. He
is the center and the fulcrum of God’s plan, the Lamb of God slain from the
foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8). Jesus’
birth, life, death and resurrection form the foundation of the Bible—the old
covenant and all the writings of the Old Testament are written about him and
fulfilled by him. The resurrection
of Jesus from the grave is our hope and our power, for Jesus is alive and risen.
It is this central truth that is the message of the Bible—a message
from God to us, in whom “we live and move and have our being” (Acts
In
Christ,
Greg
Albrecht