Now it’s time to make two key connections to bring this chapter on the two-story view together. (1) If God has a future plan for all creation, then there will be a time when everything in creation is set right. Paul told a group of believers tempted to give in to “gnostic” dualism, an ancient form of the two-story view, “In [Jesus Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things” (Col 1:19–20). And if “all things” in creation
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