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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...

appropriately applied to Christ. These are called “Messianic pictures” to distinguish them from “Messianic principles.” FULFILLMENT OF MESSIANIC PREDICTIONS First, there were many events that were the fulfillment of direct predictions about the coming Messiah or Saviour. For example, it was predicted that Christ would be: 1. born of a woman (Gen. 3:15) 2. through the line of Shem (Gen. 9:26) 3. from the seed of Abraham (Gen. 12:3; 15:5) 4. and from the seed of Isaac (Gen. 21:12) 5. and from the
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