Friday, January 19, 2024

It's not divine!

Perhaps one of the most significant affirmations which the Old Testament concept of creation makes is that nature is not divine. The Genesis creation account stresses that God created the moon, sun, and stars. The significance of this point is too easily overlooked. Each of these celestial entities was worshipped as divine in the ancient world. Many of these were worshipped as gods by Israel’s neighbors. By asserting that they were created by God, the Old Testament is insisting that they are subordinate to God, and have no intrinsic divine nature.—Alister McGrath, Theology: The Basics (2nd ed.), 41

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