Genesis 1:28 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
According to Jacob Sherman, our understanding of creation might easily miss the point. The Bible gives an amazing and beautiful vision from beginning to end: the world is a nice gift from a good and gracious God. Creation is the name for this perception of the world as a gift. The book of Genesis begins with a stunning vision of creation, which is repeated and expanded in the last images of Revelation, in which the same God who created all things "makes all things new" (Revelation 21.5).
The theory of creation is not a stand-alone doctrine, but rather a vast mystery linked to the Trinity, the incarnation, the mysteries of redemption, and new creation. The theory of creation underpins all we believe, reflect on as Christians, pray about, and serve. When properly understood, the idea has profound implications. The separation between Creator and creatures is the first, most basic, and most important distinction one may establish within the Abrahamic religions.
Between the two books, confession of God as the good, faithful, and loving creator pervades the writings and is a necessary aspect of Christian confession. The world isn't a cold, hard reality or a meaningless text. God comes before and surpasses the world, but not as something larger or older, but as the absolute and infinite source of all. God creates the world from the beginning to end.
For further information, please watch my youtube video "Call of God"
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
According to Jacob Sherman, our understanding of creation might easily miss the point. The Bible gives an amazing and beautiful vision from beginning to end: the world is a nice gift from a good and gracious God. Creation is the name for this perception of the world as a gift. The book of Genesis begins with a stunning vision of creation, which is repeated and expanded in the last images of Revelation, in which the same God who created all things "makes all things new" (Revelation 21.5).
The theory of creation is not a stand-alone doctrine, but rather a vast mystery linked to the Trinity, the incarnation, the mysteries of redemption, and new creation. The theory of creation underpins all we believe, reflect on as Christians, pray about, and serve. When properly understood, the idea has profound implications. The separation between Creator and creatures is the first, most basic, and most important distinction one may establish within the Abrahamic religions.
Between the two books, confession of God as the good, faithful, and loving creator pervades the writings and is a necessary aspect of Christian confession. The world isn't a cold, hard reality or a meaningless text. God comes before and surpasses the world, but not as something larger or older, but as the absolute and infinite source of all. God creates the world from the beginning to end.
For further information, please watch my youtube video "Call of God"