What is the story of the Bible?

God created people and wants a relationship with them because he loves them. The Bible gives us a guide to go by to have a good life. God even sent his only Son to come to earth to save people from their sins.

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Hebrew nomad's campfire tales and fables.

The Bible was not always known as the Bible...in fact the first Bible was only printed for issue in the 14th or 15 th century. Prior to that I believe it was text from various historical text which was written in Hebrew. The first ever translator of the Bible in it's current form was a Protestant in the years of the Reformation. This caused the only Christian church known (Catholic) to panic as it bought to light that salvation was achieved through Jesus and not the church and so many false doctrines the church practiced. The Catholic Church actively pursued anyone who had a copy and charged them with heresy and were burnt at the stake. That is how much of a threat the Bible was to the Catholic church and still is today in that they don't like anyone interpreting their Bible.

The story of the Bible

The Bible is God's personal letter to mankind to save him from his sins. It is true that the Old Testament (the first half) of the Bible was dedicated to the nomadic journeys of the Jews, as the good news of Jesus Christ is for the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles, or the non Jews.

The exile from Egypt is just like a Christian leaving the world for the first time, as it is a vast desert at first, and depending on the person, the desert can be considerably longer or shorter, but God parts the massive waters, and creates water from a rock, and leads them to the land of milk and honey, that is the magnificent grace and peace and prosperity of the Christian life within the will of God.

God called out a Arab, Abraham, as he was the only righteous man in the Ur of Chaldees (modern day Iraq, I believe), Abraham became the father of the Jewish nation, for he was called out first, and given the promise of having a nation come forth from his children.

The purpose of the Bible is for the salvation of mankind, so that man recognizes his sin and need for salvation from it, and once he admits that he needs God's help, God forgives him of his sin, and he gives him new life and a new nature, as all things, through Christ, become new again, as those who are saved are born again, spiritually.

The main person of the Bible is Jesus Christ, as He is the fulfillment of all of the OT prophesies about a Savior and a Messiah (the first prophesy was Genesis 3:15), and all throughout the OT, Jesus' main ancestors were a picture of His holiness and leadership, starting with the first man, Adam, all the way to Christ's precursor, the one who prepared the way of the Lord, John the Baptist, the one who baptized Christ Himself.

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