In Context

[timothyu]

Taking the entire Bible in context, cover to cover, in one short sentence what is the root concept behind everything within?

 

[Neostarwcc]

Eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

That sums up the whole bible pretty well. Christ is talked about from Genesis to Revelation and it is by believing in him that we are given eternal life.

 

[Roidecoeur78]

God is in control, and Christ is His son to whom He gave all authority.

 

[timothyu]

Man relinquishing putting our will before the will of God.

 

[Jonaitis]

Simply put: God is more glorified in bringing good out of evil.

Here is the strangest fact: God is the wisest being, wisdom itself, yet predestined a fallen world. This means that a perfect world was not the wisest choice in his holy and eternal counsel, but purposed to paint a redemptive picture of how good, wise, and powerful he is over evil. Nothing, not even a broken system, can be greater than God's glory. He is more glorified in bringing good out of evil, he is more exalted in the work of redemption, and all of this isn't for some need of his, but strangely as a showing to us creatures that this is God, for our joy!

 

[eleos1954]

Taking the entire Bible in context, cover to cover, in one short sentence what is the root concept of everything within?

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

 

[RaymondG]

Christ in you, the hope of Glory.

 

[gordonhooker]

God revealed through our Lord Jesus the Christ.

 

[Foxfyre]

Taking the entire Bible in context, cover to cover, in one short sentence what is the root concept of everything within?

To love God, the Creator of all, with all your heart and soul and mind, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.

 

[Residential Bob]

God's faithful abandoned Him for other pursuits, and after centuries of drama - violence, incest, drunkenness, idolatry, and all the rest - the Messiah reunited Creator and creation.

 

[~Anastasia~]

Man was created in the image of God to have fellowship with God, but made himself subject to death through disobedience, so God deigned to become incarnate in order to reconcile mankind to Himself.

 

[Resha Caner]

Christ.

 

[seeking.IAM]

The kingdom of God.

 

[Tone]

He has not left us alone.

 

[Athanasias]

love, undivided pure sacrificial love.

 

[ViaCrucis]

How this question has been answered seems to offer a lot of insight into the chief theological principle of the posters (and their churches/traditions/communions) answering.

Allow me to add to this thread by joining with those who answered the question by pointing to Jesus Christ. The Bible is about Jesus, and all God has for us in Him.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[timothyu]

Allow me to add to this thread by joining with those who answered the question by pointing to Jesus Christ.

Might I ask to expand for a moment but why was He needed. What examples are shown from cover to cover?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Might I ask to expand for a moment but why was He needed. What examples are shown from cover to cover?

All things were made by Him and for Him.
He is the Logos who was in the beginning with God, and is God, through whom all things were made and nothing that was made apart from Him.
For He holds all things together by His powerful command.

The good and gracious God who made all things, being unwilling to abandon creation to futility and death, set out to redeem, rescue, renew, and heal the world. He called a man by the name of Abram from the city of Ur, gave him the name Abraham and promised that he would be the father of many nations. Through Abraham came Isaac, and from Isaac came Jacob (also called Israel), and from Jacob the twelve tribes of Israel. God made a covenant with the children of Israel, and through them would bless all nations, tribes, and people. When the people came into the land they did not have a king, for God was their King; but they desired a king like the other nations, so God called Saul to be their king; and we see through Saul the futility of kings. Nevertheless God then anointed the shepherd David to be king, and when the kingdom of Israel became divided, and as the nations encroached upon the people, taking them into captivity, God promised through His prophets that there would arise the Son of David, the Messiah, who would would come as the King.

Then one day, over two thousand years ago, God sent an angel to a young virgin named Mary, and declared to her that she would conceive in her womb, by the power of the Holy Spirit, a Child, the Messiah, indeed this Child would be the very Son of God. And, as was told to her, she conceived and bore this Child and named Him Jesus, for He would save His people, indeed, He would save all people.

This Jesus came preaching and proclaiming God's kingdom. For indeed, through Him the kingdom of God had come and was coming, not through a warrior, not in the glory of kingly majesty, but in the suffering and death of this Jesus, and His rising from the dead as the One who overcomes and overcame sin, death, hell, and the devil.

This Jesus, God's promised Messiah, the Christ; the One who is Himself the very Word by which all things were made and through which all things are held together, true God of true God united Himself to our humanity, taking on our humility, our shame, our mortality, and all suffering. And after He had died, for the sins of the whole world, He was laid in a tomb, dead and buried. He descended into the lower regions, and took away from the devil the keys of hell, trampling down the devil, trampling down death--for what the devil had held over man and creation, death, Christ has defeated. This Jesus rose from the dead three days later, glorified, vindicated, and then ascended into the heavens to sit on His throne on the right hand of God the Father, in glory, until the day He comes again as Judge of the living and the dead and bring with Him the everlasting kingdom. This Jesus, Messiah son of David, is indeed King now and forever; more than that, He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And He has the name that is above every other name.

Through Him and what He has done He has given us peace with God, so that we should be called the children of God. And we long, and wait, for the Day when He shall return, and God shall make all things new, and God shall be all in all. Life everlasting, world without end. For what was lost shall be found, what was broken has been fixed, what was sounded has been healed, and what was dead is made alive.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[timothyu]

God shall make all things new

In other words a story of the will of man vs the will of God.

 

[icxn]

How God became man so that man can become* god.

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* in the image and likeness of god, which was God's original intend for us before Adam messed it up.