Non-believers think the Bible is simply a rule book, but that’s never been God’s primary purpose.  In a nutshell, the Bible is the story of God’s solution to the problem of evil.

God addresses the big topics that he wants us to think seriously about, and to act on: sin, evil, death, redemption, and restoration.  These are the Bible’s overarching themes, and they go way beyond rules.  They’re the keys to understanding our Creator and ourselves.

“What is the Bible about? Without trying to minimize the diversity of Scripture, we can say that the Bible is centrally about what our triune Creator-covenant God has done to redeem us and to make everything new in Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Trent Hunter and Stephen Wellum, Christ from Beginning to End

We’ll concentrate on sin, death, redemption, and restoration.  These concepts form the factual structures that support faith in God.  Since the day that sin entered the world, it’s been God’s objective to redeem all creation, and to restore the relationship between God and mankind to everything it was at the beginning in the Garden of Eden.