The Bible's Story

God creates a perfect world. Humans rebel. Everything breaks.

Humanity grows so wicked God starts over with Noah's family.

God chooses one man and promises his descendants will bless the whole world.

Abraham's descendants end up as slaves in Egypt for 400 years.

God rescues His people through Moses with dramatic plagues and parts the sea.

God gives His people rules for living - the Ten Commandments and more.

Under Joshua, Israel enters Canaan - the land God promised Abraham.

Without a king, Israel repeatedly falls into sin, suffers, cries out, and is rescued.

Israel gets kings - Saul fails, David succeeds, Solomon builds the temple.

After Solomon, the nation splits in two. Most kings are terrible.

God's patience runs out. Jerusalem is destroyed. The people are deported.

A remnant returns to rebuild. Then 400 years of silence before the Messiah.

God becomes human. Born in a stable. Teaches, heals, loves outcasts.

Three years of revolutionary teaching, impossible miracles, and growing conflict.

Jesus is executed on a cross. Three days later, He rises from the dead.

Jesus' followers receive the Holy Spirit and spread the message worldwide.

Apostles write letters explaining what Jesus' death and resurrection mean.

A vision of the future: evil defeated, death destroyed, God dwells with humanity forever.