The Unifying Theme of the Bible

References: (1) “The Unfolding Drama of Redemption” by W. Graham Scroggie. (2) God’s revelation of the theme began with Gen. 3:15 where God told the serpent, the purveyor of rebellion: “I will put ENMITY between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. ” (3) Man needs a PRIEST, a PROPHET, and a KING: a priest to represent him before God; a prophet to reveal God to him; and a king to be ruler over the whole kingdom of his life. (4) Only in Christ is man’s need supplied in every respect. (5) Penal substitutionary atonement is theological shorthand for how God deals with human sin through the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. (6) Some atheists renounce every religion and go so far to say that God the Father is a CHILD ABUSER and a MORAL MONSTER because He poured out His wrath upon His Son, Jesus Christ. (7) The people in the progressive/emergent church and those who are wrong concerning PSA are saying: “God so HATED the world that He KILLED His only Son.” (8) Paul Copan has responded to the New Atheists charge in his book “Is God a Moral Monster?” by saying, “Whether atheists or theists, we are seeing something of an all-around consensus about the Neo-atheists’ arguments. First, for all their emphasis on cool-headed, scientific rationality, they express themselves not just passionately but angrily.” (9) Christian thinker Michael Novak , author of the book No One Sees God, comments about the New Atheists’ writings as “an odd defensiveness about these books — as though they were a sign not of victory but desperation.” This is Episode 206.