foundation is the Story of Israel, upon which the Story of Jesus makes sense. The Plan of Salvation flows out of this Story of Israel/Story of Jesus and the Method of Persuasion flows out of the Plan of Salvation. Figure 2 The Story of Israel, or the Bible, is the sweep of how the Bible’s plot unfolds: the creation of the world as God’s temple, the placing of two little Eikons—Adam and Eve as divine image-bearers—in the garden temple of God (called Eden) to represent God, to
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