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When God created the world, he brought perfect order out of what was “without form and void.” But with human rebellion against God leading to God’s curse, disorder was introduced into creation—disorder that we still see all around us today. Tracing the chaos to cosmos theme from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, pastor-scholar Sidney Greidanus reveals how God is restoring his creation through Jesus...

Contemporary scholars are more likely to look for the background of the chaos–cosmos theme in ancient Canaanite literature.9 Here we also find a myth about a storm god doing battle with a sea god. The storm god (controlling lightning, rain, and fertility) was Baal, and the sea god (the god of chaos) was Yam. Part of the Baal myth reads as follows: The mace whirled in Baal’s hand like an eagle, (grasped) in his fingers it crushed the pate of prince [Yam].… Yam collapsed and fell down to the earth,
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