“The Bible isn’t there simply to be an accurate reference point for people who want to look things up and be sure they’ve gotten them right. It is there to equip God‘s people to carry forward his purposes of new covenant and new creation. It is there to enable people to work of justice, to sustain their spirituality as they do so, to create and enhance relationships at every level, and to produce the new creation, which will have about it something of the beauty of God himself.“
– N. T. Wright
Q: Who is this mediator – true God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous?
A: Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.
Q: How do you come to know this?
A: The holy gospel tells me. God himself began to reveal the gospel already in paradise; later, he proclaimed it by the holy patriarchs and profits, and portrayed it by the sacrifices and the other ceremonies of the law; finally, he fulfilled it through his own dear son.
– The Heidelberg catechism, QNA 18–19
