Christianity – Why, What, How?

In elaboration to my post Christianity, why, what and how? I’m starting this page to explore and share what I find, feel free to participate.

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What makes the bible unique and how do we know it is divinely inspired?  What is the scarlet thread, the old & new covenant?  What is the divine contract?  How does what sometimes seems like a collection of unrelated books tie together into an inseparable whole?

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The Bible

First I want to address the issue of the Bible and accepting it as the ultimate authority in your life.  I’ve grappled quite a bit in the past with surrendering myself to a book that has such weird stories and information which some believe to be unscientific etc. I don’t need to explain this, we all know what is said about the Bible by sceptics, if you don’t know, go Google.

For me, what brought clarity was reading a book by Richard Booker called The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread, it’s a small and simple book that explains how the bible fits together and how in essence all points to Christ.  I’m not going to try and repeat the book here, you can go read it yourself.

The book opened my understanding and I started to hear what Jesus really meant when he said:

“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I didn’t come to destroy them, but to fulfil them.”
http://bible.cc/matthew/5-17.htm

If you consider yourself a Christian and believe the teaching of Christ, then you have to believe that Christ came to fulfil what is contained in the Law and the Prophets.

What is the law and the Prophets?

Go read about the Tanakh

* Torah (tor-AH) — The Law, also called the Pentateuch (Greek for “five books”)
* Nebiim ( neh-veh-EEM) — The Prophets
* Ketubim (keh-tu-VEEM) — The Writings

Then refer to:

Then he said to them, “These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you-that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.”
http://bible.cc/luke/24-44.htm

Christ himself is very clear about what he thinks about the Bible, and so should we be.

The question, as Christians, we should be asking ourself is not how we can invalidate things that are written in the Bible to prove that it is unscientific, but what is said in the Law, the Prophets and Psalms that Christ needed to fulfil?  Now that my friends is the beginning of your journey to discovery.