God’s rest from his work points towards the completion of creation, which is beyond all human efforts. [349] Although man in his work is the junior partner of his Creator (Gen 2:15), he can by no means redeem the world by his toil. The goal of creation is “new heavensContinue Reading
The symbol of the work week, which is crowned by a day of rest (Gen 1:1-2:3), is an expression of how good, beautiful, and wisely ordered creation is. From the symbolism of “the work of six days” we can derive important principles: (1) Nothing exists that was not called intoContinue Reading
Yes. The laws of nature and natural systems are also part of God’s creation. Man is not a blank slate. He is shaped by the order and the natural laws that God has inscribed in his creation. A Christian does not simply do “whatever he wants”. He knows that heContinue Reading
God alone, who is beyond time and space, created the world out of nothing and called all things into being. Everything that exists depends on God and continues in being only because God wills it to be. The creation of the world is, so to speak, a “community project” ofContinue Reading
No. God, not chance, is the cause of the world. Neither in its origin nor with respect to its intrinsic order and purposefulness is it the product of factors working “aimlessly”. Christians believe that they can read God’s handwriting in his creation. To scientists who talk about the whole worldContinue Reading
Yes. Although it is a different kind of knowledge, faith is open to the findings and hypotheses of the sciences. Theology has no scientific competence, and natural science has no theological competence. Natural science cannot dogmatically rule out the possibility that there are purposeful processes in creation; conversely, faith cannotContinue Reading
No. The sentence “God created the world” is not an outmoded scientific statement. We are dealing here with a theo-logical statement, therefore a statement about the divine meaning (theos = God, logos = meaning) and origin of things. The creation account is not a scientific model for explaining the beginningContinue Reading
“For God nothing is impossible” (see Lk 1:37). He is almighty. Anyone who calls on God in need believes that he is all-powerful. God created the world out of nothing. He is the Lord of history. He guides all things and can do everything. How he uses his omnipotence isContinue Reading
Jesus of Nazareth is the Son, the second divine person mentioned when we pray, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Mt 28:19) Jesus was either an imposter who made himself Lord of the SABBATH and allowed himself to be addressed withContinue Reading
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Holy TRINITY and has the same divine majesty as the Father and the Son. When we discover the reality of God in us, we are dealing with the working of the Holy Spirit. God sent “the Spirit of his Son intoContinue Reading
