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Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us__ut more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing__ut greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.
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Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us__ut more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing__ut greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. (...) In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.

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Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained within himself. Creation was from the beginning an act of love, of affirming goodness of the other. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good; but it was not itself divine. At its height, which according to Genesis 1 is the creation of humans, it was designed to REFLECT God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship. But this image-bearing capacity of humankind is not in itself the same thing as divinity. Collapsing this distinction means taking a large step toward a pantheism within which there is no way of understanding, let alone addressing, the problem of evil.

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