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The Bible begins and ends with a revelation of God that gives redemption its basis. From the first verse of Genesis, the book of origins, we encounter a God of personality, character, purpose, and activity. Only in the light of what He shows us of Himself as the Creator of our world and the Interactor with human history does the salvation story assume its proper context. Genesis sets things in...

precondition for the theological speculations about a pantheon in which the ranking order of the gods among themselves was expressed in the form of family relationships.15 In other words, with the development of urbanization people began to envision their gods in human terms. People were no longer trying to be like God, but more insidiously, were trying to bring god down to the level of fallen humanity. J. J. Finkelstein observes how the gods of the Babylonians were not only understood to interact
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