Christians should seek to understand God’s law and acknowledge that His creative law applies to everything. We actively engage in helping to restore creation norms to compliance with God’s law by demonstrating the proper and correct exercise of responsibility, thereby assisting in Christ’s redemptive mission to restore all creation. John 3:16 tells us, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” God loves the world even though it is corrupt, sinful, and fallen because it is His creation.
... how creational norms and sinful direction work in the formation of wrong ideas. God reveals His wisdom in Scripture, but Scripture also directs us to observe God’s wise design in creation (Ps. 19:1; Prov. 8:22–31). According to His blueprint of wisdom, God created His world to work in a certain way. Paying attention to how God created the world to work in the beginning reveals principles for living according to His wise design in the present. These principles are called “creational norms” because they were present at creation.
For marriage (Matt. 19:4–8), economics (Exod. 20:9; 2 Thess. 3:11–12), science (Gen. 8:22), and every other component of life (Isa. 28:24–29). In some areas, we have direct clarification from God’s Word. Others come through careful observation of creation. When God gave Israel laws, He modeled a reformation approach to creational norms that have been distorted by the Fall. God calls us to take radical action against personal sin. His laws guide His people to take reasonable steps toward the norm. Reformation requires distinction and knowledge of the creational norms and the false worldview.
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