My Generation's Need for Scripture (pt.2)

Part 1 can be read here.

Scripture is seen by my generation as this really old, really boring drag of a read. Most of us probably wonder why The Bible has been on the top selling list since it is such a fatiguing read. Also, we see no point in Scripture. We think it’s more jumbled up than Aesop’s Fables and much more difficult to understand (at least Aesop’s Fables has a lesson(s) learned paragraph at the end of each story).

I believe if we understood the point of Scripture rather than seeing it as being a really boring really old book we’d see it as a beautiful work that only God could do. For all great stories have a climax and all great stories captivate, but only one great story can bring the dead to life.

Jesus. He is the climax of the tale of Scripture.

For in the beginning we are introduced to this God who creates and grants life. Leaving the rest of the characters to be introduced as they are created, man and women.

But shortly after the start there is the fall, which throws the first characters into this desperate situation. Yet here, in the rising action of the story we learn the sheer mountain that must be over come, not simply by those who fell, but by all who come from their line.

And thus the action continues to rise and archetypes come and go and foreshadow come into focus only to leave the focus; all of this building, building, building to the stories inevitable climax, one that leaves all others far behind.

Then he appears. A baby in a manger, who will live the life no man has ever lived and will die the most horrendous death that all men should continually be dying. The cross of Christ being the literary and literal crux of all of mankind and all of creation, this is the point of Scripture.

The action is now falling and the resolution is soon to come. The story is finished with a look into the future.

It is Jesus, he is the point of the Book; he is the hero in every tale; and he is the one readers look to, to understand the most beautiful tale ever spun. But this is no tale, making this all the better, this is truth. For if you remember your childhood well you will remember the best stories where the ones that came true. Yet here is one that was never a fairy tale or fiction, here is one where the enemy is utterly evil and the princess in need of saving is you. Where the tower we're trapped in is higher than ever we could have thought and the Knight (who's armor is indeed shining) who saves us is a King. Here is a story to be captivated by. A story to be saved by.