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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Simply, when Scripture is rightly interpreted, it is ultimately about Jesus as God, our Savior, the object of our faith, forgiver of our sins, and giver of eternal life. Therefore, to correctly interpret scripture you will need to connect its verses, concepts, and events to Jesus.
Unless Jesus is the central message of the Scriptures, many errors abound. The most common is moralizing. Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person by following the good examples of some people and avoiding the bad examples of others. That kind of approach to the Scriptures is not Christian, because it treats the Bible like any other book with moral lessons that are utterly disconnected from faith in and salvation from Jesus.
“His death on the Cross was not merely the end of His life as the result of his rejection by His own countrymen; it had a deeper and more eternal significance. it was something that had to happen in order that mankind me be reconciled to God. It was a transaction between God the Father and God the Son. It was the Son bearing our sin ‘in His own body on the tree’, and the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy of Isaiah, who had said that the Messiah would be ‘wounded for our transgressions,’ and that ‘with his striped we shall be healed’ (Isa. 53:5). Indeed, as Paul puts it elsewhere, ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself’ (2 Cor 5:19).”
-Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones, The Plight of Man and the Power of God
