Scripture, Jesus, and Martin Luther
God gave us Jesus and Scripture, which is a testimony to Jesus. It is through the written word of God (Scripture) that we have access to the living Word of God (Jesus). Jesus reveals who God is and Scripture reveals who Jesus is. Ultimately, Jesus gives Scripture its unity.
The central though that binds the Old and New Testaments together is Jesus. Yet for Christians, at the heart of our faith stands a living person and not a book. The great reformer Martin Luther it explains it this way:
God does not want to be known except through Christ; nor can he be known in any other way. Christ is the offspring promised to Abraham; on him God has grounded all his promises. Therefore Christ alone is the means, the life, and the mirror through which we see God and know his will. Through Christ God declares his favor and mercy to us. In Christ we see that God is not an angry master and judge but a gracious and kind father, who blesses us, that is, who delivers us from the law, sin, death, and every evil, and gives us righteousness and eternal life through Christ. This is a certain and true knowledge of God and divine persuasion, which does not fail, but depicts God himself in a specific form, apart from which there is no God.
Jesus is made known to us through the witness of Scripture. From first to last, the Bible points us to Jesus.
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