An Important Trinity

An Important Trinity

The Holy Bible is the most important defining factor in a Christian's faith. This Divine Volume explains the history of a people, and through this story, we can learn how we are to live within the Kingdom of God today. This cannot be done, however, without a proper understanding of what makes Scripture, well, Scripture. To proceed a quest in understanding the Bible, we need to know important facts that make up its very being. Here are, in my opinion, the three most important things to know about the Word, the Divine Authority Reveled - The Most Holy Scriptures.

A point in reading the Bible is to understand why we should read it. This brings me to my first defining factor, namely, the inspiration of Scripture. The Holy Bible is said to be inspired, or God breathed. This, in further explanation, shows that through human writers, God communicated to us His Word. If we follow out of presuppositions about God, the inspiration of Scripture leads us to the understanding that it is infallible and useful. Infallible because God is what we define right and wrong by; useful because we believe that God is immanent and interacting with His people today.

The second key element in understanding Scripture is understanding that the Bible is unified. This is to say, simply, that the Bible, though written by many authors of 1500 years in different places in the world, is about a single subject - The Kingdom of God. By knowing this, our reading of Scripture will begin to be more focused on Scripture from beginning to end, rather then individual propositions and "proof-texting." The unity of Scripture is further explained in the next essential point to understanding Scripture - The Story.

The fact that Scripture is telling a story is the third element that needs to be understood about the Holy Bible. Not only does this book have good teachings and morals, but these teachings are found with a story. This story is about God creating and seeking out a people, dwelling with them in His Kingdom, a kingdom which finds life through death, a kingdom that lives because of death. Not only is this important to understand because of it's veracity, but because it will shape the way we read Scripture. If we read the Bible as a story, we understand how it is organic, and in turn, how God has sought after His people progressively and organically.