The Gospel of Christ demands that we ultimately see the Bible as a veriloquent lovelore about the Creator and the creatures of his love and no less. The greatest story ever told is not a tale spun from the limited imagination of human minds nor committed to writing by the faltering pen of mortal hands; it is the true story of humanity itself, authored by the God whose Word became flesh and dwelt among us--enacted in the theatre of time by God the Son, as sovereignly scripted from eternity by God the Father, and then infallibly recorded in sacred history by God the Holy Spirit, so that through its reading we might believe, and in believing, have life in His name. This is the divine narrative in which the Triune God Himself is both Author and Actor, weaving the destiny of mankind into the very life, death, and resurrection of the eternal Word made flesh. There are some stories that write themselves--some stories that essentially tell their own tale. The redemptive love story is one of such rare stories--the story of God's love for man is one that has historically written itself, so much so that we cannot pretend to do any more narrative justice to this specific story than it has already done plotting, setting, and enacting its own tale through the ages--etched in the sands of time across a span of 4 kiloyears and then unfolding so perfectly throughout the pages of the Bible for well across a period of 1500 years that its inherent beauty and grace almost immediately render any attempt at retelling inadequate.
