What’s called “The Red Thread” is a way of looking at an overall theme of redemption in the Bible. It’s simply a metaphor for connecting every book in the Bible with a unifying message. It points to an unfolding of God’s plan to address various things like the death problem instituted with Adam.

The means of this redemption, saving, restoration, etc. is the biological blood and biological body sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

The “red” in “The Red Thread” is obviously blood. The “weaving” began in the garden with the animal slain by God after Adam and Eve rebelled against God.

A huge problem for people – especially the first century Jews – is the belief that a human being who claimed to be God in the flesh should have to suffer and be murdered on the cross in order to shed his biological blood and give his biological body as the one and only lasting sacrifice for sin.

It’s this biological blood and biological body sacrifice of God in the person of Jesus in the literal flesh that purchased the Church/Bride/Wife/Body in full on the cross.

I totally get that it’s WAY TOO MUCH for people to accept. This is why faith in Jesus is a gift from God the Father. It’s radically SCANDALOUS to look upon a man on the cross who said he is God as he’s bleeding out to his physical death – and then be asked to believe that this is THE price paid for sin and death!

Of course people will rebel against such a belief while saying something like, “I don’t need this belief in a man who said he was God and who also said he was going to shed his blood and die on a cross in order to take away sin and death! Ridiculous! Sick! Insanity! Nonsense!”

Faith in Jesus and what he accomplished on the cross in his finished atoning work on the cross is DEFINITELY a gift from God the Father!

1 Corinthians 1:17-25, “17 For Christ sent me [Paul] not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”