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A more refined way to define these terms is active creation is the divine act of creating the world ex nihilo whereas the passive creation is the coming to be of the created order (see Richard A. Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology, 2 nd ed. [1986; Grand Rapids, MI ...
Oct 21, 2015 · Last week I began reflecting on David Fergusson’s recent book Creation by giving some thoughts on the logical connection of a historical Adam and Eve to the rest of Christian theology. Fergusson himself devotes only about a page to this question, culminating with “We can have redemption in Christ without a fall in the historical Adam—the ...
May 1, 2018 · Human beings make sense within their realm, namely, the creation of God. The human-centered view of the created world can be seen in the case of each of the six creation days. I will illustrate the human-centered orientation of the fourth day. On the fourth day according to Genesis 1, God created the celestial lights.
Covenant theology (also known as covenantalism, federal theology, or federalism) is a Biblical Theology, a conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall structure of the Bible. It is often distinguished from dispensational theology, a competing form of biblical theology. It uses the theological concept of a ...
Aug 10, 2022 · Here are four important realities that passage teaches. 1. Creation reveals a God who is not like us. In the beginning, the Bible reveals a God who is not a created being, a figment of our imaginations, or a durable crutch we invent in difficult times. Genesis reveals an all-powerful God without beginning and end, who is other than his creation ...
Feb 10, 2017 · 3. Biblical theology traces the storyline of the Bible. Closely related to the previous point, the discipline of biblical theology also traces the unfolding story of the Bible. The Bible tells us one story about our Creator God, who made all things and rules over all. Our first parents, and all of us since then, rejected God’s good rule over ...
In His preparing of the Heavens, I was there (8:27) The first creative act in Gen 1:1 is the creation of the “heavens”. At this point, the Ancient of Days (the Logos) is in place playing His role as Creator (And God SAID! - Gen 1:3) The Father prepared the heavens through the Son’s manifestation as the visible Logos.
