Is there a central message to the Bible?

The Four Holy Gospels: A Beautiful Collision Of Contemporary Art and Ancient Texts

Makoto Fujimura's magnum opus is ready for pre-order at Amazon. His illustrations will adorn a 400th anniversary edition of the four Gospels in the King James. As well as being stunningly beautiful, this effort may rekindle the dialogue regarding art and biblical Christianity.

Coffee tables were made for this edition.

The people at Crossway put together this piece to give you a preview of the work:

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Finally, to enhance our series on Genesis, Mako's "Soliloquies-Genesis"

How should we read Biblical stories?

"The reason for our confusion [about Biblical stories] is that we usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a "moral" for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right. In other words, the Bible doesn't give us a god at the top of a moral ladder saying, "If you try hard to summon up your strength and live right, you can make it up!" Instead, the Bible repeatedly shows us weak people who don't deserve God's grace, don't seek it, and don't appreciate it even after they have received it. If that is the great biblical story arc into which every individual scriptural narrative fits, then what do learn from this [or any] story." -Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods, pg 36-37