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To Understand the Bible Look for Jesus: The Bible Student’s Guide to the Bible’s Central Theme is unavailable, but you can change that!

Believing the fundamental Christian claim that the purpose of the Bible is to present the Savior, Geisler focuses on Christ as the unity and unfolding message of the whole of Scripture. Christ is the tie between the Testaments, the content of the canon, and the unifying theme within each book of the Bible. This book is basic to both Bible study and preaching and serves as an excellent guide to...

to realize, effectuate) the Old Testament. That is, the Old Testament moral precepts are realized in and effectuated by the life and teaching of Christ. ILLUSTRATION FROM OLD TESTAMENT QUOTATIONS It is significant to note in this regard that there are definite passages in Matthew in which the word fulfill does not mean the coming to pass of what was previously forecast. Fulfill is used fifteen times of Christ in Matthew (1:22; 2:15, 17, 23; 3:15; 4:14; 5:17; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 26:54, 56; 27:9,
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