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Originally Posted by Jaymin Allen  That's a very interesting thought and very well put. I'd like to ask what allows you to draw the correlation between "creation"-"revelation" and how their beginnings and sustaining would be similar. |
We could look at the gathering together of the waters. What a sight! God spoke and it was done. Now He does so by means of tides. It is no less an act of God's power, but one of conservation instead of creation. Likewise, when the Lord revealed Himself, the miraculous element caused many to wonder; but now that the revelation is complete, God works by the ordinary means of Word and sacraments. It is no less an act of divine power to preserve that Word through the ages than it was to bring that Word into being, but it is an act of conservation instead of creation.