The Greatest Story Ever Told Is Not In The Bible

Often I hear people talk about the Nativity of Christ or the Gospel as the greatest story ever told. I hear this commonly used around their corresponding holy days of Resurrection Sunday and Advent. I have used this phrasing many times in the past and now I have to take my turn to admit that I am wrong. The Bible in its entirety or in the subsections is not the greatest story ever told.

Before I get started on this idea of the greatest story, I do think I should define what I mean by story. When googling the definition of story, you will come across two major definitions: the second one would dwindle down to information foretold from one’s perspective; but the first being dwindled down to “a lie”. We see this definition used in our modern language and in a way has become a slang term. I remember hearing people telling me to stop telling stories when I was trying to lie my way out of a situation, and I have heard many other people across this nation and from other cultures use this same slang which gives me personal evidence of this being a common definition. So why do we still call the Gospel or the Nativity the greatest story? What is the greatest story ever told? What should we then call the Bible?

To answer my first question posed, I will have to attribute the use to our pastors’ modern day catch phrasing and sloaganeering. Preachers and pastors have decided there was a need to use this awesome quips to catch the ear of others. This has led many down a road of twisting scripture to fit sermon series, misinterpreting scripture to fit their doctrine, ignoring scripture in its entirety and as posed mislabeling the Bible. When we as Christians in our entirety give way to the world we lose our relationship with Christ in hope of winning others to Christ. If we follow down this road to entice people to Christ we wind up leading them in a different direction than what we hoped for and we give reason for people to doubt God in the first place. This is where we need to fix ourselves.

To answer my second question posed, I would have to give way to perspective. Everyone may have their own answer to this question and I cannot give a definite answer. If I were to offer my opinion, I would simply respond with that the “Bible is the greatest story (lie) ever told”  as my answer. I use this as my answer for the simple reason that the historical evidence lines up, the scientific evidence lines up, and the evidence of faith lines up with the Bible being truthful. If we were to aim directly at something like the crucifixion of Christ, we would see both Pagan, Atheistic, Jewish and Christian scholars admitting that the historical evidence shows that Christ was crucified. So, if the evidence shows itself then how can we call it false? This is based purely on a empirical ideology, if we would like to go outside the realm of measurable evidence then please submit a question on my contact page provided on this site and let us talk.

To answer my third question posed, I would simply call the Bible the greatest truth ever told. Understanding this sounds like sloganeering, I take this as proper labeling of something that has proven. With my faith behind the Holy Scripture and understand what we call the Gospel (The Good News), I would have to say that it is the greatest truth. Understanding that we have all sin and come short of the glory of God. Understanding that Sin is anything we say, think or do that goes against God’s law. Understanding that the price for sin is death (both literal and eternal). Finally, understanding that Christ who is God in human flesh, lived a sinless life, went to a cross willingly, and paid for the sin debt that we (all humanity) owed, simply to offer a way for us to come back to him. This is the greatest truth and I hope you will all accept Christ as your savior.

I understand that some of you entered this post thinking that I have absolutely lost my mind. Our definition of words come purely based on how we use them in culture and when we change the definition we need to be careful how we use them in relation to God and God’s Word.