of the New as well because they were too Jewish. The church rejected his teaching as wrong and heretical, and held on to the Old Testament Scriptures as a vital part of God’s full revelation and therefore of the Christian canon of the Bible. And as we survey the seven acts of the drama of Scripture, we can see how important it is that they did so. Without the first three acts, Jesus becomes just another human savior of some kind. The story would lose its essential beginning (creation), its profound