Because Salvation, Therefore Creation
Summenary Ep. 5
Genesis 1:3-4 And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good…
The Hebrew word “tov” is like our English word good. It suggests that if something is “good” it must be “good for something.” There is purpose.
Over and over again in Genesis 1 we read that God saw what he had made and that he saw it as good/tov. So, God finds his creatures good for his purpose with them. What is God’s purpose with creation?
The old rabbis had no trouble here: God created for the sake of Israel. The apocryphal book 2 Esdras 6:55 reads “It was for us…
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