The Bible is both human and divine.

It's a collection of literature produced through humans, human words written down and edited by ancient human authors,

but it's also divine.

Those words were breathed out by God Himself through them.

The Bible is a unified story, and that story is also about a human and divine partnership.

How God appointed humans to be His image to rule the world on His behalf.

But the problem is that we're unable to choose God's wisdom.

We are unable to rule.

And God's solution to this problem is the most important theme in the story of the Bible.

How God will raise up from among us and appoint a human who will show us what it means to be the image of God.

Because Messiah is a category that comes from the Hebrew Bible itself, and the story is building up this crisis in this need for someone to come and do something.

One of the titles for that figure who's needed is the Hebrew word Messiah.

And then if I'm a follower of Jesus, Messiah.

Of course, my confession of faith is that I believe Jesus is that one.

Jesus famously said that the Hebrew Bible is all about Him, about His sacrifice for us, about the salvation we could find through Him.

The whole story, every story, every poem, every word, it's all about Him.

I have come over the years whatever struggles that I might have in seeing the story Jesus says is in the Old Testament.

I've come to the place where if I don't understand how a book of the Bible is somehow about that, the problem is for sure me.

I'm not asking the right questions.

I don't know what to look for yet when I'm looking at XYZ book in the Hebrew Bible.

And once I know what the right questions are, then I'll see how it fits into this thing.

And so what is the story of the Bible about?

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