To me contradictions in Reading the Bible comes from not looking at the human story. Beginning, logically, with the creation of the earth and of man, the story of the race sprung from the first human pair continues through the first 11 chapters in Genesis.
In the 12th chapter begins the history of Abraham and of the nation of which Abraham was the ancestor. It is that nation, Isreal, with which the Bible narative is thereafter cheifly concerned from the 11th chapter of Genesis to the 2nd chapter of the Acts. The Gentiles are mentioned, but only in connection with Isreal. The central theme of the Bible is Christ. He is the benefactor of the world, over the Church, and desire of all nations. The Bible is a progressive unfolding of truth. Nothing is told at once, and once for all.
But it is clear that Isreal so fills the scene only because entrusted with the accomplishment of great world-wide purposes. James
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