[bit.ly/13eEXh5] "Think with me here. As we are looking at the Scripture, we understand it to be -- AS IT CLAIMS* -- the inspired and inerrant word of God. Every word inspired by the Holy Spirit. We believe that the speaking God speaks to us in this word. This is an inscripturated revelation of the one true and living God. "But we also come to understand that this text is telling us a story, and that story, just in a redemptive historical framework, has to be summarized so that we know our accountability to the story and the narrative; the grand narrative of the Gospel can include no fewer movements than these: creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. "We come to understand the grand narrative of Scripture, the redemptive historical narrative that is revealed in the unity of the Old and New Testaments in the consistent presentation of the revelation of God. And we come to understand that it begins with creation. It moves quickly to the fall. And then to redemption and consummation or new creation. "We understand that the Bible presents a doctrine of creation that is more than merely an intellectual account of how the world came to be. IT IS A PURPOSEFUL ACCOUNT OF WHY THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED BY A SOVEREIGN AND HOLY AND BENEVOLENT GOD AS THE THEATER OF HIS OWN GLORY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEMONSTRATING HIS KNOWLEDGE NOT ONLY AS CREATOR BUT AS REDEEMER*. "The doctrine of creation is absolutely inseparable from the doctrine of redemption. But it begins there in this story as is revealed in scripture. And thus we come to understand that what scripture makes clear is that God is revealed, how everything that is came to be, and why." [*EMPHASIS added.]
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:05:00 +0000
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