I was recently writing a paper on my view of the creation narrative in Genesis. Part of the assignment was to discern what other areas of theology this would correlate to. So, this is what I came up with.
Coming to Genesis 1 understanding that this is an account of the Creator God revealing Himself to man, that this is God’s grand entrance into the newly begun story of mankind will provide us with a correlation for every aspect of our theology. It reveals that the God who created all and is in control of all wishes to establish with us, the dependent created creature, a lasting covenant – establishing with us a precedent for an understanding of ourselves in relation to God (the creator/creature relationship).
It is from this relationship that the human draws his entire existence (indeed, according to Colossians it is from this relationship that all of the cosmos draws its existence). In order to have a correct understanding of oneself and the world in which we live one must understand himself in light of humanity and his relationship to the Creator God (anthropology). Then, understanding the broken nature of our relationship to that Creator God, we realize the importance of His covenant redemption. Which, upon entrance into the promise, by means of Christ’s sacrificial death (soteriology), as established in His Holy Writ (bibliology), provides for the human being a communal context in which to live, create, love, work and worship according to man’s reflection of the divine nature (ecclesiology), and will one day result in the redemption of the whole cosmos as it is submitted to the supremacy of Christ, at which time God will deal justly with the forces of evil (eschatology).
