Since most of the titles in the Final Fantasy series are not connected to each other, they typically contain one complete story with a beginning and an ending… but not Final Fantasy XIII. FFXIII was notable for being designed and released as a trilogy, with each game representing one unique chapter of Lightning’s journey. While every entry in the series was developed by the same studio, it still took multiple people working on it in different capacities to bring it to completion. If someone played only one chapter without playing the rest, her story would feel incomplete and wouldn’t make much sense. But when played out across all three acts, her narrative comes together as one cohesive experience and even the hardest-to-understand parts of her story finally have context.

The collection of writings we call “the Bible” may have been written by multiple different individuals across thousands of years, but they all share one common “Author” and combine to tell the story of God’s plan to reach out and save His wayward children. When Scriptures are taken out of their surrounding context or aren’t read in connection to the entire mesaage, they can be confusing at best or misinterpreted at worst. The Lord has revealed His truth to us across each and every verse, and when taken together even the hard parts come together to tell one cohesive story.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4

And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. 2 Peter 3:15-16

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