La Biblia no es un libro de texto de teología sistemática, ni es un manual de textos de prueba de un doctorado, ni siquiera un libro de buenos consejos morales. La Biblia es más bien una historia.
Es una gran narrativa enriquecida con el cruce de diferentes caracteres en una saga que se despliega en amor infinito, una horrible pérdida y una restauración gloriosa al final.
En el centro de la historia emerge una gran figura singular. Cada profecía y parábola, cada canción y símbolo, cada oración que se lamenta por la justicia y ruego que llora por misericordia, cada grito de ayuda y anhelo de amor, todos los episodios y la promulgación de la historia, susurran Su nombre.
Todo el Antiguo Testamento dice en esencia: Él viene. Y todo el Nuevo Testamento dice: Él ha venido.
Una promesa hecha ¡y una promesa cumplida! Esa es toda la Biblia, toda la historia, en pocas palabras.
En el Antiguo Testamento escuchamos a Dios diciendo: Yo te amaré fielmente a cualquier costo para mí mismo. No importa tu postura hacia mí, yo nunca dejaré de amarte. Voy a ir a tu mundo y entrar en tu dolor. Voy a soportar tu pena en mi corazón. Voy a absorber el pecado en mi amor y superar su poder para destruirte.
En el Nuevo Testamento escuchamos a Dios diciendo: He aquí yo estoy aquí, y voy a cumplir con todos los aspectos de mi promesa para ti. Te amaré hasta el final absoluto de mí mismo. Toda la rabia y el odio se puede amontonar sobre mí, no vencerá, ni siquiera debilitará, mi amor por ti. Y cuando yo sea levantado en la cruz en un autosacrificio de amor abnegado hacia ti, te atraeré de vuelta a mí.
Resumiendo la relación de los dos Testamentos, Pablo observó brillantemente: “porque todas las promesas de Dios son en Él sí, y en Él Amén, para la gloria de Dios a través de nosotros” (2 Corintios 1:20). En Cristo, Dios ha demostrado que su amor es fiel y verdadero mediante el cumplimiento de cada promesa que hizo a través de los profetas.
La historia se desarrolla en siete actos épicos:
1. PRE-CREACIÓN: Érase una vez la eternidad. Dios era todo lo que había. Antes de toda la creación, para las edades eternas del pasado, Dios existía como una comunidad tri-uno centrada en el amor al otro: Padre, Hijo y Espíritu, el eterno Tres como Uno. El Dios de la historia bíblica no es un yo solitario, sino más bien una amistad de donación, una unidad social, una dicha interpersonal de entrega sin parar. La relación de amor desinteresado define quién es Dios y es la base de la realidad.
2. CREACIÓN: El universo físico, con todos sus seres racionales y sensibles, con voluntad propia, nació del vientre de amor divino, como la inevitable expresión del carácter de Dios. La creación es, simplemente, profundamente, la actualización del amor de Dios en una forma material. Existimos porque Dios es amor, y con el fin de amar como Dios lo hace. Psicológica, emocional y biológicamente los seres humanos fueron diseñados para reflejar el amor desinteresado de Dios de regreso a Él y unos con otros.
3. CAÍDA: El pecado entró en el cuadro en forma de autocomplaciente, ya que la voluntad de vivir para uno mismo por encima y por delante del otro es lo que genera desconfianza, lo que conduce al aislamiento, lo que conduce a la muerte. La caída de la humanidad era básicamente una pelea de amor con Dios y con los demás. El pecado no es la ruptura de las reglas arbitrarias impuestas por un Dios controlador, sino que es antiamor, lo que resulta en la ruptura de relaciones.
4. PACTO: En respuesta a la caída, Dios se mantuvo fiel a su carácter. El concepto clave de la narrativa bíblica es la fidelidad relacional de Dios. A medida que la historia toma forma en el Génesis, la palabra que viene a encapsular la integridad de la producción relacional de Dios es el pacto. En sus diversas formas y fases de desarrollo, el pacto es la promesa de Dios de seguir amando a la humanidad caída frente a nuestra rebelión. Él va a seguir adelante con su plan para salvarnos a cualquier precio para si mismo. Para llevar a cabo el plan del pacto, Dios establece en Israel el linaje biológico y teológico a través del cual se promulgó Su corazón. Los profetas de Israel se convierten en el canal a través del cual se proclamó toda una serie de promesas y profecías del pacto, todas ellas señalando a Jesús.
5. MESÍAS: La venida de Cristo, su nacimiento, vida, muerte, resurrección y ascensión constituyen el completo cumplimiento de la promesa del pacto de Dios. Jesús es el amor de Dios encarnado, promulgado, y eternamente reivindicado. En Él, el pacto se mantiene tanto desde el lado divino de la relación como desde el lado humano. Como Dios, Él fue fiel en su relación con la humanidad. Como hombre, Él fue fiel en su relación con Dios. La salvación fue, histórica y objetivamente, consumada en Cristo como el cumplimiento bilateral completo del pacto.
6. IGLESIA: El cuerpo de Cristo es Su comunidad del pacto. Su misión es dar testimonio, a través del anuncio y la promulgación, de la realidad transformadora del amor de Dios. A medida que la buena noticia de la fidelidad de Dios se comunica al mundo, la salvación, la liberación y la curación suceden en cada persona que dice sí al mensaje. La respuesta positiva es lo que la Biblia llama “fe”, que se ejerce cuando una persona individual se identifica con Cristo como la nueva humanidad que él o ella ahora abraza. Esta es la experiencia subjetiva de la redención que es en Cristo Jesús.
7. RE-CREACIÓN: A medida que la historia bíblica alcanza su clímax, todo lo contrario al amor de Dios será erradicado de la realidad. Sólo lo que es bueno y bello permanecerá por toda la eternidad futura. La historia promete la eliminación definitiva del mal y la restauración de todas las cosas a la pureza edénica. La humanidad redimida por fin entrará en la dicha eterna de la vida centrada en los demás, la integración social que Dios había planeado desde el principio. El amor de Dios reinará supremo en cada corazón como la única motivación detrás de cada pensamiento, sentimiento y acción.
Esta es la Biblia entera de un vistazo, y este el mensaje por el que Dios levantó al movimiento Adventista para anunciarlo al mundo. Nuestro marco doctrinal solo sirve para su verdadero propósito cuando se ponen a la tarea de contar esta historia. Y es la historia más encantadora, emocionante y alucinante que se pueda contar, porque es la historia verdadera de un Dios que nos ama más que a su propia existencia y prefiere morir antes que vivir para siempre sin nosotros.
Si contamos esta historia, nuestra propia gente así como a los que evangelizamos, entrarán de forma espontánea en la narrativa para desempeñar su papel.
Una historia que contar, Ty Gibson.
Artículo original en inglés aquí.
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