The Macro-Story of the Bible
While the Bible is a multi-volume set, containing 66 different books by about 40 authors, and many genres, it is also one grand story from beginning to end. The grand story (sometimes called a meta-narrative) goes something like this:
God created everything and proclaimed that it was good (much to the chagrin of gnostics and people who hate the environment). The culmination of the creative process finds two people, Adam and Eve, in a luscious garden paradise called Eden. There, they were to cultivate, cultivate their relationship with God, cultivate their relationship with each other, and cultivate creation itself. Adam and Eve disobey God, rebelling against him, and place the world and humanity under a curse. The rest of the Bible is God’s outworking of a plan to redeem everything. As we travel through the Scripture, we see God promising to usher in this redemption through the person and work of Christ, who now reigns from heaven awaiting the day that he returns to fix everything by uniting earth and heaven. The final scene sees God reigning on a renewed earth, pictured as a garden-city, filled with those who have put their trust and faith in Christ from all of history.
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, I mentioned that Longman briefly discusses his view on the book of Job—namely that he views it as book of historical fiction with a theological purpose. In that review, I stated that I disagreed with Longman’s view. Today, blogger friend Jeff at Scripture Zealot posted a short post on why he believes 
