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“If we allow at the Bible to tell its own story, we find a coherent and meaningful whole.

To understand this meaningful whole we have to allow the Bible to stand as it is: a remarkable complexity yet a brilliant unity, which tells the story of the creation and the saving plan of God.” Graeme Goldsworthy

It is the story of a Shepard warrior who conquered the giant.

It is the story of God’s people freed from bodage to a cure king who walk across the sea on dry ground.

It is the story of a land given to a people.

The Bible tells the story of who God is and how He redeems His people through the provision of His Son.

“In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ.

If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play.

But Christians believe he did more than give us information.

He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.”

Tim Keller

“If we allow at the Bible to tell its own story, we find a coherent and meaningful whole.

To understand this meaningful whole we have to allow the Bible to stand as it is: a remarkable complexity yet a brilliant unity, which tells the story of the creation and the saving plan of God.” Graeme Goldsworthy

So when you open up the bible to page one you begin learning about who God is.

The story of the Bible begins with God.

The Bible shows us something of who God is in the opening chapters of the book.

God is the Creator.

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These six days of creation culminates in God’s great work - namely man.

God is omnipotent.

10 times in the first chapter we see these words “God Said”

v. 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29

God creates “ex nihilo” from nothing.

God is good.

God is sovereign.

God doesn’t make request He gives commands.

Sometimes those command are positive.

(Do this)

Sometimes those commands are negative.

(Don’t do this)

gen 1 28

Gen 2

When God speaks this happen.

That is what a king does.

When the king speaks his word is law.

God is good.

The Bible tells the story of God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule experiencing God’s blessing.

From cover to cover that is where the bible story moves.

“The story of Adam and Even is not a prescientific fable or a pious fiction of human origins.

Rather, it is a theologically embedded story of God’s creation of the human race; a story with characters as real as the earth they stand on, and yet they stand for more than being our primal parents, as their story testifies to the creative power of God over the world of human beings and explains how God’s perfect paradise went wrong.

4.  Paul clearly believed in a literal Adam, who was prototype and antitype to Christ, the second Adam (; , ).

If there never was an original Adam, there never was an original sin; and if there was no original sin, that puts Jesus (risen or otherwise) into the realm of the unemployed.”

Michael F. Bird

Living under God’s rule means enjoying His blessing.