Thursday, December 13, 2007

The totality of creation

I want this post bto e sum up the things about science. The things about God's creation.

Colossians 1:15-23 with commentary

He is the center of science for He is the very center of creation by position, by rule, and by substance in sustaining all.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

The purpose of creation revolves around christ. It revolves then around what is with Him by His father's pleasure. It revolves around what he reconciles, namely his bride, the church.

18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. 19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, 20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.


To further confirm what is being reconciled. Paul specifically is talking about the christians he is writing to. He talks about the way and purpose of salvation. He talks about the effects and the end.

21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

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