understood as the Word of God. Because it contains many things that correspond with “the Christian understanding of existence”—man as creature under God’s claim, the consciousness of sin, and the hope for grace—the Old Testament can serve as a mirror that gives us understanding of our own situation before God and of “the Word of Christ which is spoken into this situation.” This is the proper way to understand the Old Testament as prophecy and the New as fulfillment. Bultmann draws only a contingent