At 10:30 AM 10/4/2006, Jon Tandy wrote:
"...Genesis 2:1-4 says ALL the heavens and earth
were already finished, Genesis 2:5 says God had
already created every plant of the field, and
every beast of the field in Gen 2:19. There
doesn't seem to be any room for any new species
to be created. Where is the verse that says God
modified all those animals He had just created to
make them brutal, blood-thirsty, and deadly?" ~ Jon Tandy
@ " ... for reconciliation is not God's
second-best back-up plan. God's eternal plan
predates both the fall and the creation; it
existed in the mind of God "before the creation
of the world" (Eph. 1:4).[19] This plan includes
not only the reconciliation of people to God, but
the reconciliation of "all things in heaven and
on earth." Or, as Paul puts it in Colossians
1:20, it is God's intention through Christ "to
reconcile to himself all things, whether things
on earth or things in heaven, by making peace
through his blood, shed on the cross." .. We
cannot fully understand this cosmic design, this
oikonomia of God to unite all things in Christ.
That is why Paul continually calls it a secret or
hidden thing, a musterion. .... So all those who
are "in Christ" experience "new
creation." ..."The creation waits with eager
longing for the revealing of the children of God.
For the creation . . . itself will be set free
from its bondage to decay and will obtain the
freedom of the glory of the children of God" (2
Corinthians 5:17-19, Romans 8:19-21). ... Howard
A. Snyder http://www.creationcare.org/conference/snyder.php
~ Janice
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