Main Character & More Bible Characteristics

The Bible has its different sections, authors and eras yes, but it’s almost poetically intertwined and integrated in so many ways.

The New Testament is foretold and sometimes even concealed in the Old, and the Old Testament is fulfilled and referenced in the New. There’s a post about the blood of the Lamb you can check out for a good example. I gain a LOT of knowledge from the Old Testament, especially about everyday living, so don’t sleep on that at all!

Just the book of Daniel taught me so much about obedience, and Haggai about priorities.

The Bible withstands all of time because God is the same and will remain the same. The same principles and life lessons that could be obtained from the Bible centuries ago can still apply to your life today.

Now, in my group Bible study, because I’m also in a group Bible study and separately a church Bible study, I think there are about four different Bibles among us. And among the group, there are about three churches represented. But we all have something in common: the same foundational principles.

One of those foundational principles is the main character...

Yasss, I have been waiting for this part. It’s... it’s here.

Now, you know in books and novels there’s an underlying theme and a main character, right? Yeah, I think I mentioned that. We have three main characters, or is it one? But anyway, the one I really want to shine the light on here... I mentioned His name already! I really couldn’t help it. It’s Jesus, Jesus Christ. He also goes by Yahweh, Emmanuel, Jehovah, and more. He’s such a main character, He has more than one name. He also holds many great and well-earned titles: Lord, Saviour, King of Kings, Son of God, even friend!

However, to carry out one of His key purposes, which is to be our Saviour, one of my favorite identities for Him, He came in human form, fully man, yet still fully God. Just because He walked the earth in front of our eyes as a man doesn’t mean He was any less God. I’ll just let you sit with that for a second.

Now, I say before Jesus walked with us because He was there before He walked the earth in human form. That doesn’t make Him any less God. Before the earth was even created, there was God: God the Father (who I’ll talk about more), God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit (who I’ll also talk about more).

And well, God was there before the beginning of time, space, and planets. In fact, science recently discovered that time began when matter was formed, so whoever created matter was indeed there at the beginning of time.

I just hit, what, four or five foundational principles right there?

1. Jesus is God, not a God, not was God, He is God.

2. God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are a triune God.

3. Jesus is our Saviour.

4. And as an addition, the only way to heaven is through Jesus; hence, He is our Saviour.

Now, what was Jesus doing before He came to earth? I don’t know, my bet is He was rolling His eyes while Moses and the Hebrews were walking around in circles and complaining. But there are many other characters in the Bible. Moses, Noah, Adam and Eve are probably the most known, other than Jesus. They all showcase their walk with God, revealing facets of who He is and who they are in Him and because of Him.

But God is the main character of the Bible, God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. All one God. All main characters.

Now, if this feels like a lot, my advice is to listen to this episode again. I could go deeper into God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but that’s a lot to digest all at once. I’m currently doing a course with a lot of biology, human parts, gut, enzymes, all that. The first time, it felt like so much to take in, especially since my background is numbers, but the second time it started to digest. Get it? Gut... digest... Anyway, it clicked better in my brain the more I went over it.

So, as I said, there’s the Old and New Testament. Before Jesus walked the earth as a man, we had the Old Testament. Anything after is the New Testament, and while Jesus walked the earth, that’s the Gospels, the first four books in the New Testament.

Each book has chapters, and each chapter has... take a guess? Verses! These can be part of, one, or more than one sentence.

It’s not how the writers originally divided it, they were just writing on scrolls, but for our ease of reading and recalling, this is how it was later divided.

We also refer to a group of verses as a passage.

There’s another way of dividing the Bible, such as by law and letters, but I prefer you understand what the law, letters, and prophets are about first, so we can circle back to that. For now let's just digest what we have before us.