JESUS IS CENTRE OF BIBLE

THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT JESUS.

This applies not only to the New Testament, for in the Old Testament Jesus teaches: "Explore the Scriptures, for you think through them to have eternal life; And they testify of Me" (John 5.39). It is the New Testament that gives us real access to the Old Testament, whose prophets point to Christ. Jesus revealed this principle to the disciples on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24.13-35). This is the clear main purpose of the Bible, which is written in John 20.31:

The Bible was written, "That ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and, believing, have life in his name". 

The Bible speaks of earthly and Heavenly (John 3.12).

For example, historical events, travel descriptions, personal meetings, regulations of laws, mood descriptions, family Chronicles, pedigrees, everyday questions and natural-scientific data. Along with these, from God's point of view, the Bible again directs our gaze to Heaven (Matt 6.33, Col 3.2): God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the Kingdom of God, the judgment, the Resurrection, and eternity.

The Bible gives a realistic description of the person.

Men and women in the Bible are not depicted as heroes, but are represented truthfully, with all their weaknesses and mistakes, with blunders, as well as with description of their positive traits. Even David, "the husband of the Heart of God" (1 Sam 13.14, Acts 13.22) errors are not stewed (2 King 11).

Biblical revelation is the key to understanding this world.

It is a fundamental, unchangeable source of information. It is especially difficult to explain the present, not taking into account the notarized events of the past-creation, fall and world flood.

There are 5 subthesis:

a) the past is the key to the present. This position is back to the thesis of the evolutionary doctrine, according to which the data obtained from today's observations can be extrapolated indefinitely in the opposite direction.

b) The factors of creation are recognized only by faith (Hebrews 11.3). Various factors of creation witnessed in many places of the Bible:

- The Word of God: Ps 32.6, John 1.1-4, Hebrews 11.3

- By the Power of God: Jer 10.12

- The Wisdom of God: Ps 103.24, and 3.19, Count 2.3

- The Son of God: John 1.1-4, 10; Number 1.15-17

- The characteristic features of Jesus: Matt 11.29; John 10.11, 14.27

- No source material, i.e. nothing: Hebrews 11.3

- Without using time, albeit for 6 days: Ps 32.6 

c) Death is the consequence of sin (Gen 2.17, 3.17-19; Ezek 18.4; Rom 5.12, 14, 6.23; 1 Cor 15.21).

d) The consequences of the fall have had an impact on all the visible creation (Rom 8.20-22). Destructive structures in biology (for example, bacteria-pathogens, parasites, mechanisms of attack snakes, spiders and predators, carnivorous plants) can not be explained in isolation from the fall and the activities of the devil. All this is rooted in the past.

e) The geological structure of the earth cannot be explained without a flood.

Weightiness (meaning, depth of thought) of different biblical texts is not the same everywhere. This becomes clear when compared, for example, John 3.16 and Acts 18.1. However, there is no information that is irrelevant in the Bible.

The Bible contains all the basic principles that we need. It is exhaustive in the sense that it has everything necessary to guide us in this life and to help achieve the eternal goal: "Look in the book of the Lord, and read; None of these preminjot come and one other will not be replaced" (Is 34.16).