Holy Scripture: It Testifies of Christ Jesus is the second poster in the Ad Crucem doctrine series. It maps the Lutheran doctrine of Holy Scripture, showing that from the promise in Eden to the preaching of the apostles, Scripture bears one witness: the Christ must suffer for the sins of the world and rise again. Read it from top to bottom: arrows run from a doctrine to the doctrines that rest on it. Remove a box and everything below it loses its ground.
“Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.” 1 Corinthians 15:3
What the poster maps
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Christ crucified, the center of Scripture: the first promise, the sacrificial order, the prophets who foretold the sufferings, Christ reading the Scriptures as about himself, the apostles preaching the cross, and Scripture’s own stated purpose.
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The keystone of the series: the vicarious satisfaction, Christ’s active and passive obedience, offered to God and purchased with blood.
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Given by the crucified and risen Christ: the Spirit of Christ speaking through prophets and apostles, witnesses appointed by the risen Lord, inspiration, and the canon received, not created.
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What Scripture is: inerrancy and historicity, authority as the norm that norms, sufficiency and clarity.
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Scripture at work in the church: the efficacy of the Word, which delivers what the cross won, and the Confessions under Scripture.
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The diagnosis, where the chain breaks: seven errors, from the preached word put in place of the atonement to restricted inerrancy, each shown cutting the chain at the link it removes.
Every box carries its Scripture references and key citations from Graebner, Scaer, Koontz, Kilcrease, Chemnitz, A Statement of Scriptural and Confessional Principles and the Lutheran Confessions. A study aid for pastors’ studies, classrooms, Bible classes and confirmation rooms.
Size: 12 × 36 inches.
Pairs with What Rests on the Vicarious Satisfaction, the keystone poster of the series.