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God has designed that human beings should “[b]e fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion …” (v. 28). Human beings have a purpose to achieve. As God rested on the seventh day (Gen 2:2-3), so at the proper time human beings, having completed God’s purpose for their labor, will enter into God’s rest (Heb ...
Sep 22, 2012 · This is the endpoint of his glory, and everything else — even God’s wrath serves this. So Paul says in Romans 9:22–23, “Desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, God has endured with much patience vessels of wrath . . . in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy.” Wrath is penultimate.
Now let us look at God’s omniscience. God’s power is not a blind power. Everything God does has an intelligent purpose, a definite goal. And since, as we’ve seen, God’s power is universal, so also is his knowledge. In knowing his own intentions, God knows everything in himself, in his creation, and throughout history.
Jun 15, 2023 · God had created a caretaker for His earth. He gave man dominion over everything else and gave him a job to do (Genesis 1:28). Man’s first job was naming all the animals (Genesis 2:19–20). God could have named the animals Himself, but He enjoyed working with Adam the way a loving parent enjoys watching her preschooler learn a skill.
God created “the heavens and the earth” When the Bible says that God “created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1), it does not mean to suggest that he only created those two things and nothing else. The Bible is here employing a figure of speech called merism, in which two contrasting terms are used to express totality.
Jun 11, 2013 · Most significantly, the Bible ends where it begins—on earth. Humanity does not depart the earth to join God in heaven. Instead, God perfects his kingdom on earth and calls into being “the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God” (Rev. 21:2). God’s dwelling with humanity is here, in the renewed creation.
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Feb 4, 2021 · Everything relates to everything because everything relates to God. The knowledge of this, and the fear of the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:12). This is the view of reality that bears the otherwise unbearable weight of reality, for while it doesn’t answer all our confounding questions, it provides us with the framework for understanding our profound existential questions.
