I have used the conductor of an orchestra and the players as a model or metaphor of the persuasive
ordering of creation by God (PE 43).
Your motivation for doing so is similar to the motivations of deniers who distort and separate Scripture rather than studying it with a mind for seeking God, whose existence by the way is proven merely by our existence and consciousness and the beauty and
order of Creation all around us.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it this way: «By coming to restore the
original order of creation disturbed by sin, Christ himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God.
However, Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy — heavier than the Law of Moses.108 By coming to restore the original
order of creation disturbed by sin, he himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God.
The sharing of peace, together with the intercessions that precede it and the offering of gifts that follows, is a celebration of the
right ordering of creation in preparation for participation in the heavenly banquet.
Then you need to explain why your god was so incredibly scientifically ignorant that he screwed up the
whole order of creation in his book.
We may speak of the fundamental universal structures of life as
orders of creation because God continues to create these possibilities of existence in spite of the fact that we live in a world of sin and death.
From this angle, the middle class does not join the wealthy and the poor, they are all joined by a
prior order of creation that reveals itself in the social nature of the person and the various bonds that flow from that nature.
The prophetic text of Isaiah 24 vividly portrays this link between social and natural hostility in the
broken order of creation:
This is saying that the Wisdom of God is most perfectly manifest in human nature which bridges and combines both physical and
spiritual orders of creation.
In it we see the ultimate purpose of the Incarnation and the fulfilment of the meaning of not just man but also of the whole of the
material order of creation.
First, similar to Barth's contention, Thielicke maintains, «The
fundamental order of creation and the created determination of the two sexes make it appear justifiable to speak of homosexuality as a «perversion»....
This removal of marriage from its status as an icon of the union of Christ and the Church resulted in some dramatic contrasts, for «to place marriage in the
natural order of creation was to deny it a place in the spiritual order of redemption.»
The vision moves now tenderly to the
lower orders of creation to make the consummation complete and concludes with reference to all things under creation:
The order of Creation via Genesis does not match what the geologic record shows.
Why such
an order of creation?
Why is
the order of creation in Genesis all fvcked up when we consider the order in which the stars and earth and animals evolved?
The exalted place of man and woman in
the order of creation, precisely because it is not of their own making but a ministry to which they are appointed, is what makes the commandment to them to be responsible for the rest of earthly creation intelligible.
For some Protestants, surely for many from Lutheran or Reformed backgrounds, this is the affirmation of
the orders of creation as something that extends beyond the Gospel.
On the other hand, the younger set takes their sexual cues from the resurrection (preferring not to think about the so - called «
order of creation») while using Genesis to highlight their culture - making activities and their environmental concerns.
Recreation (literally, re-creation) reflects
the order of creation, participating in the nature and order of reality as given by God.
There is more than one way to resist participation in
the order of creation.
Pope Francis inaugurated the colloquium by declaring that the complementarity of man and woman was part of
the order of creation and was the foundation for the co-existence of diversity.
The state has no such value in
the order of creation.
But even identifying these two very consequent decisions does not explain how in Lutheranism, of all places, the authority of Scripture could be so undermined and why in Lutheranism, with its strong theology of God's
orders of creation and preservation, anyone could hope to get away with proposing that sexual arrangements be judged on quality not kind.
Haught clearly sees Jesus» death on the cross as a natural event in
the order of creation.
Some argue that since homosexual behavior is «unnatural» it is contrary to
the order of creation.
The order of the creation is a clear proof for the existence of such a higher being.
This means that in
any order of creation and any state of man Christ is «The Sacrament of the World».
Work is part of God's
ordering of creation; it belongs to our humanity that we work.