By Meredith G. Kline
As intimated through the subtitle, Genesis Foundations for a Covenantal Worldview, the fast literary concentration of this research is the publication of Genesis and its account of the formative a long time within the eschatological circulation of the dominion of God from construction to consummation. As additionally indicated via the subtitle, our biblical-theological observation on Genesis is designed to discover the rules of God’s covenantally administered nation with its significant old advancements and its institutional constructions and capabilities. during this manner state Prologue seeks to supply an introductory caricature of the over-all form of the biblical worldview and the nature of biblical faith.
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The absolute lordship of God is the presupposition and explanation of his triumph, not its sequel. The battle, therefore, is not the means by which God acquires the throne, but is rather a sovereign exercise of that imperium which belongs to him as the Creator 37 who sits enthroned from the Flood, yea from everlasting (Ps 29:10). The battle and the conquest are in fact acts of divine judgment against transgressing subjects. Since, in the case of the original creation, Sabbath enthronement was not preceded by conflict with rebel adversaries but came at the completion of a purely constructive process, there could be no question of an initiation of God's world dominion by defeat of another god who previously possessed sovereignty.
The battle, therefore, is not the means by which God acquires the throne, but is rather a sovereign exercise of that imperium which belongs to him as the Creator 37 who sits enthroned from the Flood, yea from everlasting (Ps 29:10). The battle and the conquest are in fact acts of divine judgment against transgressing subjects. Since, in the case of the original creation, Sabbath enthronement was not preceded by conflict with rebel adversaries but came at the completion of a purely constructive process, there could be no question of an initiation of God's world dominion by defeat of another god who previously possessed sovereignty.
The goal in view is not to struggle through to a precarious victory but to complete a building. The biblical account thus stands apart from the Canaanite cosmogony of the Baal epic, and other ancient cosmogonies of that type. The right of the latter to be called creation accounts has been challenged because they do not include the concept of world creation in the strict sense but only the idea of an ordering of chaos. Even the other major ancient type of cosmogony, which began with the theme of theogony, did not understand creation as absolute origination ex nihilo or in nihilum, but as a birth process issuing from original binary deity.