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Israel’s articulation of creation faith is marked by God’s gift of the power for life, which has a relentless ethical dimension. Thus we have seen that creation is marked by justice, righteousness, and steadfastness, and that it is aimed at needy Israel in exile and, more generally, to the stranger, the widow, and the orphan.  How could it be otherwise?  For the God who is the subject of these verbs of creation is also the subject of more particular verbs in Israel’s own life.  Yahweh’s work in creation is the subject of more particular verbs in Israel’s own life.  Yahweh’s work in creation is never an act of raw, sovereign power, but is an act saturated with covenantal, ethical intentionality.  Yahweh characteristically intends not only to have a world, but to have a certain kind of world, one that generously and gladly attends to the goodness and extravagance of life.

Theology of the Old Testament.  p. 158

A little more emphasis on this nature of Creator and creation might result in far different treatment of friend, enemy, and planet.

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