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The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the central theme of the Bible? Given the diversity of authorship, genre, and context of the Bible’s various books, is it even possible to answer such a question? Or in trying to do so, is an external grid being unnaturally superimposed on the biblical text? These are difficult questions that the discipline of biblical theology has struggled to answer. In this thoroughly revised and...

the days of the exodus, which was later to be called “the promise.” Paul showed the same method of interpretation, only he began with the exodus and zeroed in on the days of King Saul and King David: After removing Saul, he made David their king; … From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as he promised. (Ac 13:22–23, emphasis mine) Since this plan of God was seen as an ongoing process that reached through all of history, it was necessary to point out each of the events
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