he was thoroughly perplexed. He didn’t know the big picture, so he couldn’t understand what was happening. The same lesson applies to reading the Bible well. We need the big picture. So what is the Bible’s big story? This may surprise you, but you can actually summarize the whole Bible in six words: • Creation: God made all things out of nothing (Gen. 1:1–2:3). • Fall: Humanity rebeled against God; sin and death entered the world (Gen. 3:1–24). • Israel: As God’s chosen people in the Old Testament,
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