The doctrines of creation and redemption are the fundamental basis upon which Biblical theology and interpretation rests. The first doctrine provides 'a universal context for the meaning of everything' narrative in the Bible. The second doctrine, as the 'implementation of creation,' liberates mankind 'to live the life it was created to live.' This is illustrated in the accounts God's covenant with Noah and Abraham where he promised to save Noah from the flood and create a new people for himself, respectively.
Creation and redemption are the two pillars upon which Biblical theology rests. They define the parameters within which the drama of Divine/human encounter unfolds. In considering the relationship between these two doctrines, it is important to note that the concept of creation has been largely eclipsed, even ignored, in modern Biblical theology. As a result, the Biblical text has been interpreted for the most part from an almost exclusively redemption perspective: Genesis has been read in the light of Exodus, and creation has been understood in the light of redemption and the giving of the law at Sinai.
Bernhard Anderson in his article, "The Earth Is the Lord's - An Essay on the Biblical Doctrine of Creation," writes, "When we open the Bible and begin reading from Creation toward the call of Israel, we are really reading the story backward. The creation accounts at the beginning of the Bible are written from the standpoint of the meaning disclosed in the event of the Exodus. In a profound sense the Bible does not begin with Genesis but with Exodus, not with God the Creator but with God the Redeemer. Only by reference to the crucial event of the Exodus did Israel know who God is and understand her calling as a people."(Anderson, 1955)
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