1 Corinthians 15:3-4
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures.
The gospel, the good news about who Jesus is and what he has done is in accordance with the scriptures. The gospel is biblical. It is not God's plan B, it is not a change of attitude or approach from the Old Testament. The whole Bible s about, as Shai Linne raps, "man's complete ruin in sin and what God has done through Christ to bring them together again". If we are not rooted in the biblical understanding of the gospel we are prone to make it about other things without Jesus' substitutionary death central. We can't operate on the basis of "it seems to me..." or "surely it wouldn't have happened like that". Jesus death and resurrection were in accordance with the scriptures and that is where we need to look to understand their implications.
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