Speaking at our Reality Student Apologetics Conference, Tripp Almon describes the overarching story of Scripture—creation, fall, redemption, and restoration—showing how God reconciles sinful humanity to himself through Jesus. Our 2025–2026 conference season dives deep into “The Story of Reality” by considering how the values and institutions we cherish in our culture exist because of the Christian worldview. Join us at our California event April 24–25, 2026.
Transcript
Mankind exercised their free will to rebel against God, introducing evil into the world. God, being all-good and all-just, should have wiped out mankind right then because...evil. He should wipe out evil. Yet there’s this tension because God is not just just; he’s also loving, and he’s merciful, and he designed mankind to be in a relationship with him. So, God enacts a rescue plan to bring mankind back into a relationship with him, and most of the Bible is about that part of the story.
And we see at the very end of the story that God accomplishes his work of redeeming people back to himself, bringing them back into a relationship with himself by putting on flesh and coming to live the kind of life that mankind should have lived, to be in that perfect relationship, to do all things right and nothing wrong. And Jesus makes this great exchange to say, “Because you didn’t live the right way—you rebelled—I’m going to trade you my goodness for your badness, and I’m going to usher you back into the throne room, where you belong in this relationship with God the Father.”
And in the very end, all things will be set right. Everything will be made perfect and good, restored to God’s original intention, but now in a way that can never be corrupted again.
Creation, fall, redemption, restoration. This is the big story of Scripture. Is this familiar?