Does The Gospel Rest on Direct Creation?

Certainly. And the primary or most important aspect of intervention revolves around God’s plan to eventually replace this world with The New Heaven and the New Earth. So this world is a “temporary” one on the way to an ultimate plan.

Seeing the world as operating according to the reality-path which God ordained does not mean that God is restricted solely to such material outcomes. Some speak of God choosing to intersect with that material world as part of his plan for its successor in the New Earth described at the end of the book of Revelation. Indeed, many would say that all of God’s interventions are for that next-world purpose, rather than “repairing” or “tweaking” the material infrastructure of this universe (or even the biological developments on earth.) In that view, all of God’s interventions we see described in the Bible are part of that “long view” that culminates in Revelation 22.

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