1. The Narrative Question: What is the shape - or storyline or plotline - of the biblical narrative? What is the Bible about? What problem is it trying to solve? What are the essential conflicts and projects that move the story along?
The Storyline of the Bible is and has always been Creation – Fall – Everyone based on their fallen nature and level of obedience to God deserve to be tortured and punished in Hell forever – But God in His vast mercy (& because He doesn’t want everyone to go to Hell) has sent His Son to atone for the evil of our sins and to pick us up and carry us back to God, via God-granted Faith and Repentance of our former Idolatry (our focus on anything – even ourselves – rather than God).
Essentials are that we are by nature Children of God’s wrath, not free but enslaved by sin, Satan, our fleshly desires, this wicked world – We cannot (mark me, its not that we don’t, but cannot) in any way Save ourselves or even help God get us saved – We are entirely dependent on God, as lost sheep, to find us, pick us up, place us on His shoulders and bring us back to the flock of God – Then He goes even farther and adopts us as sons and daughters and gifts us with Eternity that we might have unlimited time to know Him and be known by Him.
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