John Chapman writes:
The basic message of the Bible can be summed up in a passage from 2 Corinthians 5:19: “In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.”
The story of the Bible is how God achieves this. It has many important themes and subthemes, the most important of which we will now trace, first by looking at the “shadow” of this reconciling work in the Old Testament, and then at its glorious fulfillment and reality in Jesus.