A Theology of Creation.

If we are to understand the nature of reality, we have only two possible starting points: either the brute fact of the physical world or the brute fact of a divine will and purpose behind that physical world.  

John Polkinghorne

God is eternal. The Universe is temporal -- it had a beginning and will have an end.

God is “other” than the Universe. God does not depend or draw on the Universe for His existence.

The Universe exists by wisdom and intent of God.

Or God created the world in a climate will, order, and intention.

The Universe as made by God was Good.

Mankind shares attributes in common with the rest of creation, but is righty considered God’s crowning creation, and as a living soul, is to be differentiated from the rest of the animal creation.

Both Men and Women are made in the image of God.

Men and Women are given the task of secondary creators and rulers, and charged by God to exercise authority over creation. (The creation mandate.)

God has, for purposes of his own will and glory, subject to the Creation to certain present futility. The creation as it now is, is not the creation of God’s original decree, however even the broken creation operates according to God’s unsearchable purposes, and under His continued support and care.

Man is fallen.

Even though fallen, Mankind is still noble, and assigned rights as duties as caretaker of the Earth.

God has made provision for fallen man through the atoning work of the first Adam, Jesus Christ.

God has future plans for both the earth and mankind which include the prospects of: the meek inheriting the earth, temporal and future judgment, … as well as complete destruction of the curse, the cosmos, and all that causes sin, culminating in the presentation of a New Heavens and Earth.