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Mar 1, 2019 · God affirms his creation due to never-ending knowledge. God uses creation to display his own marvelous qualities and nature. “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
- Athena
Athena’s parents are Zeus and Metis. There’s a myth that...
- Athena
He is the firstborn from the dead, the beginning of God’s final new creation work (Col. 1:18). Though he is the firstborn from the dead, everyone who is united with him can look forward to sharing in his creation in the new creation (1 Cor. 15:20–23). The new creation is a way of talking about God’s new work in redemption.
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The chief name of God in Scripture is Yahweh, which English translators render as Lord around 7000 times. God’s lordship includes his control over all things, hisauthority over all the universe, and his presencein every part of creation. God’s work of creation underscores his lordship in all three of these respects. Creation establishes God’s owner...
God’s creation, therefore, is a universal revelation of his lordship. Confronted by that lordship, by his control, authority and presence, our obligatory response is worship. Often in Scripture, consideration of creation motivates worship (Neh. 9:6; Ps. 8:3–9; 33:6–9; 95:3–7; 146:5–6; Rev. 14:7). Paul tells the Gentiles at Lystra and Athens that th...
Salvation is of the Lord (Jonah 2:9). Since creation is a vivid revelation of God’s lordship, we should expect significant parallels between creation and our redemption from sin. In Genesis, the story of creation anticipates God’s deliverance of Israel from bondage and their establishment as his own special people, his new creation (see Ps. 89; Isa...
The Six Days
Genesis 1 presents what we have called subsequentcreation as occurring in six days, culminating in a day of divine rest. According to Exodus 20:8–11, this pattern provides a model for the human work week and Sabbath rest. That the Sabbath is also a day of worship reinforces what I said earlier about creation as a motivation for human worship. Theologians have disputed the length of these days. Some have argued that they are “literal” or “ordinary” days; others have said that they each represe...
The Age of the Earth
The genealogies in Genesis of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and others suggest a “young earth” view, that the world is somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000 years old. But many theologians have said that in such questions we should defer to the present scientific consensus, that the earth is something like 4.5 billion years old and the origin of homo sapiens(modern man) was about 200,000 years ago. This is called the “old earth” view. Some have also held mediating positions, observing places in the Gene...
Evolution
A third area of dispute concerns whether the creatures mentioned in Genesis 1 (especially Adam and Eve) were directly created by God or whether each kind of life (including mankind) developed from previous kinds by a process similar to that described in the theory of evolution. Whatever one concludes about questions #1 and #2 above, it is very difficult to argue from Genesis that Adam and Eve are anything other than special creations, since (1) according to Genesis 2:7, God made Adam from ear...
The Bible is clear that humankind is the apex of God’s creative work. Human beings were the final creative act of God on the final “day” of creation, created in the image of God and charged with exercising dominion over everything else (Gen. 1:24-8).
This is a creative scholarly argument revisiting the substance, understanding, and implications of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo for contemporary theology and philosophy. Paul J. DeHart examines the special mode of divine transcendence (God’s infinity) and investigates areas where accepting an infinite God presents challenging questions to Christian theology. He discusses what “saving ...
consider the role of theory as a larger framework of meaning, contextualizing observations to serve as evidence. Finally, I look to Charles Darwin and his impact on the thinking of Asa Gray and Aubrey Moore to argue that divine agency in creation can only be discerned from a faith perspective.
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Jan 28, 2013 · In this essay, I will examine the language describing creation in Scripture and contest this common assumption of many contemporary Christians by showing that (1) Scripture affirms the idea of God's creating through process; (2) the distinction between direct ‘special’ creation and ‘indirect’ creation through natural law is a false and unscriptural dichotomy; and (3) the context and ...
