Biography of new testament bible characters
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By Christopher Reese
The Bible is composed of 66 separate books that tell one overarching story and this story is The True Story of the World. This Story explains why the world exists, the reason you and I are here, and how it will all end. Thus, it’s the most important Story of all and one we should seek to read, study, and understand. It’s within this Story that we also find our own stories. One way to become more familiar with this Story is to get to know its main characters.
Earlier in this series, we explored 11 major figures of the Old Testament and considered lessons we could learn from their lives. We now move to the New Testament to get to know 7 of its main characters, beginning with Jesus, Mary, and John the Baptist.
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Jesus
It’s appropriate that we begin with Jesus since he’s the main character of the Bible; the hero of the Story who saves humanity. As we saw in our survey of Adam and Eve, because of their fall into sin they were separated from God and died spiritually. Consequently, so did all of their descendants (Romans 5:12).
Rather than allow humankind to face the fatal consequences of their actions, God initiated a rescue plan: he would take the punishmen
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List of greater biblical figures
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New Testament Characters
The people of the New Testament are often more familiar to us than the Patriarchs of the Old Testament. Much of our own culture is based on Greek and Roman thought, law, customs, and understandings. When we engage with New Testament characters, we quickly realize that the story isn’t just about that person, it’s about us too.
The richness of story telling as a way to understand theology and the God of the universe was clearly illustrated by the way Jesus taught. He told stories: The Good Samaritan: The Prodigal Son; The Rich Young Ruler, and others.
Jesus also acted out and demonstrated stories to tell us about His Father (and about us). The feeding of 5000; healing miracles, raising Jairus’ daughter, changing lives, and more, illustrate eternal truths.
Meeting the New Testament characters, and experiencing them and their stories, helps us see “the story behind the story,” and challenge/change us too. Hearing about them is one thing. Hearing from them is quite another.