Brief Introduction to Revolutionizing Your Bible Reading Through Family Theology

 

The Family Theology framework I have built upon Scott Hahn, my famous theology professor’s Covenant Theology framework (which he put together from the Biblical insights of Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant scholars – a combination of the gifts of all who love the Bible as God’s Inspired Word!) – is a comprehensive Biblical theological framework for understanding the Bible which ties together the entire text of both Testaments (including many difficult passages which at first seem incomprehensible or even offensive to the Christian mind), all of the fundamentals of traditional Christian orthodoxy, and Christian history since the Biblical record ended, including the failures and divisions of Christians which are all part of a divinely patient process of God the Father raising His human Covenant Family since Adam gradually to its maturity in love.  This framework literally revolutionizes Bible reading because it makes plain the ‘Big Picture’ or single overarching story of the whole Bible which flows and unfolds naturally from the heart of the Eternal Trinitarian God who is Love – and shows how current Christian history is a natural continuation of the story of the Bible, a wonderful story of God creating a human family specifically in order to adopt it into His Eternal Trinitarian Family of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, unified through family bonds with the one God who is Love.  Family Theology shows how God is divinely loving, wise and patient with His adopted children’s immaturity in love (including divisions) throughout the human history of all the major Covenants including the New Covenant of Jesus Christ which was not an end to His plan (we still await the Eternal Covenant of the New Heavens and New Earth after Jesus returns) but rather was Him giving His adopted Covenant Family the latest and highest standard of love yet to strive for knowing we would struggle in this task as the earlier Covenant Families had in their tasks.  Our loving Father God knew we Christians too would often fail as all the earlier Covenant families did (as Christian history attests to), yet He knew Christians, as the Jews before them (who at first were very inconsistent at worshipping Yahweh [the LORD] but who by the end of the Old Testament were zealous for Him as a nation), would also very gradually mature in love (as today’s Ecumenical Movement for healing the scandalous divisions in our Christian Family demonstrates).

 

© 2009 Peter William John Baptiste, SFO

 

Go to Excerpts from The Bible’s ‘Big Picture’ – Using “Family Theology” to Understand the Single Overarching Story Told Throughout the Scriptures, Which Makes the Bible Our Family History as Christians

 

Go to Love Unbounded: Tracing Salvation History from the Eternal Trinity to the New Covenant Church — Using Family Theology to Answer the Question How and Why Does Jesus’ Death Save Us?

 

 

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