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• Title: Creation and Creation's God
• Author : Dean Fredrikson
• Release Date : January 04, 2014
• Genre: Christianity,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Nonfiction,Philosophy,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1259 KB

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For millions of literate people, the issue of natural and human origins remains open, both at the level of science and also at that of the biblical account of creation. The issues are poorly understood; it is not merely a matter of science vs. faith. Regarding science, the question is what science is scientific. The Genesis account of creation, on the other hand, is buried under centuries of theological orthodoxy more derived from Greek philosophy than from the language of Genesis itself. Augustinian Neo-Platonism predisposes interpretation of the Genesis account to misunderstanding. That view of instantaneous, complete and final ("fiat") creation, derived as it is from the idea of God as the quality of perfection, is contrary to the biblical story of a personal creator God who acts with purpose from a beginning to ultimate fulfillment in a new and good world. In fact, the idea of the progressive evolution of the natural world and of mankind fits better the stages of creation depicted in Genesis. But the idea of accidental or inevitable progress in autonomous nature is self-contradictory and entirely contrary to the biblical view of what might be regarded as purposeful, creative evolution. The purpose of the writer (or writers) of Genesis was to affirm that the world and humanity was the work of the one supreme God of the Jewish prophets. It is not an argument to prove the existence of God or to describe either the mechanics of creation or the antecedents of the big bang. Science that conforms to the modern definition of peer reviewed reproducibility and physical testability is one thing. Science that seeks its foundations in metaphysics as in the Bohr-Einstein debate over randomness in quantum theory vs. theoretical predictability, and the question of one universe vs. multiverse, is more metaphysical than scientific. Part of the book's argument occurs in fragments of a philosophy of language in which the difference between the use of literal language and literalism is applied to the Genesis story. In addition to accounting for the assertion of Genesis as "story", it is necessary also to account for the literary sophistication of the biblical author's use of language. Not only is there careful structure in the narrative, but its nature as "story" in which analogy, metaphor, appeal to common human experience, and even hyperbole serve effectively to present a vision of God-the-creator. Creation and Creation's God proposes to literate, intelligent readers to consider the biblical presentation of a creator-god as depicted in Jewish history and in the creative words and acts of Jesus of Nazareth. A phase of creation was "finished" and the creator "rested," but the history of his patient teaching of Israel and the response of faith on the part of some argue strongly that God persisted in the creation of persons who, in the on-going context of evil and opposition, are learning to be the insightful, loving humans the creator intends. He intends real persons, different from himself, for whom he seeks the highest good and the greatest happiness.

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