Is Christ the Center of Scripture?
Herma and Herman Neutics: Is Christ the Center of Scripture? Most Christians I suspect would answer “yes” in some sense to my title question. But that “in some sense” contains a diversity of meanings. Some of the key questions that move us toward an answer to what sense is Christ the center of scripture include: -Does every passage somehow speak of Christ? -Is he the “hermeneutical key” that unlocks the mystery and meaning of scripture? -What about passages that seem to contradict what we know of God through Christ? According to Luke, Jesus explains to the disciples after Easter, the two on the Emmaus road and those gathered in Jerusalem, everything in scripture that relates to him and what has happened to him (24:25-27, 44-49). In John Jesus asserts that the scriptures point to him (5:39-40). This does not mean, however, that every passage somehow speaks of Christ or to the circumstances of his life even if they point to him in more general ways. If he is the “h...