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214 How Are the Christian Scriptures Confirmed by the Peculiar Glory of God?
Creation
Bring my sons from afar
and my daughters from the end of the earth,
everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made. (Isa. 43:6–7)
Incarnation
Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness,
. . . and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his
mercy. (Rom. 15:8–9)
Propitiation
God put [Christ] forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received
by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in
his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to
show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just
and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:25–26)
Sanctification
It is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with
knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is
excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled
with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to
the glory and praise of God. (Phil. 1:9–11)
Consummation
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from
the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he
comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled
at among all who have believed. (2 Thess. 1:9–10)
From predestination in eternity past to consummation at the end of
history, God’s ultimate aim in all his works has been the praise of his
glory. This summary is a small taste of the fruit that grows everywhere
in the Bible. The “scope of the whole” is indeed to give all glory to
God. The catechism is correct. Indeed, to be more precise, the scope of