The Character of Scripture: Narrative

NARRATIVE: IT'S A STORY

Unity: It is one story.

• Good Literature
  Introduction—Conflict—Climax—Resolution
• Covenant
  I will be your God and you will be my people
• From acorn to oak tree

Historicity: It is a story in time and place.

• Acts 2:32: God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of this fact.
• I John 1:1-2: That which was from the beginning which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of Life.

Perspicuity: The story is clear.

Westminster Confession of Faith I.VII
All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.