What is the basic storyline in the peoples understanding of the history of salvation?
The foundation event in the history of the Israelites is Exodus and Sinai. In that experience the Israelites understood that God had led them out of political slavery into political freedom and met them at the holy mountain where he revealed himself to them as their God for them, his people, and commanded them to lead good lives in obedience to the Law and promised them life in the Land. The Israelites would later recall that God had originally promised the Land to Abraham whom he had summoned forth from his home in Haran, and to Abraham’s descendants, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants. The Israelites also recalled the origin of sin in the world by their first parents, Adam and Eve, and by their progeny which brought about the flood and how God had saved the one good Man, Noah, and his family. The Israelites rehearsed as well the beginning of corporate sin in the story of Babel and the dispersal of the people throughout the world which followed. Despite their experience of the savi
