Monday, October 3, 2011

All of creation is being reclaimed and renewed by Absolute Love.

Rom 1:19-23 "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things."

Rom 8:19-23 "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now."

" 'Thinking Christianly' means understanding that Christianity gives the truth about the whole of reality, a perspective for interpreting every subect matter. Genesis tells us that God spoke the universe into being with His Word- that John 1:1 calls the Logos, The Greek word means not only Word but also reason or rationality, and the ancient Stoics used it to mean rational structure of the universe. The undelying structur of the entire universe reflects the mind of the Creator. There is no fact/value dichotomy in the scriptural account. Nothing has an autonomous or independent identity, separate from the will of the Creator. As a result, all creation must be interpreted in light of its relationship to God. In any subject area we study, we are discovering the laws of creation ordinances by which God structured the world" Nancy Pearcy
Total Truth Study Guide Edition p 34 Crossway 2005

Absolute Love is the end, the completion, the perfection of all that exists.
Joh 1:1-3 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made."


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