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A Biblical Theology of the New Creation from Genesis to Revelation. In the beginning, the perfectly good God created a perfectly good universe. However, through the sin of Adam and Eve, this creation lapsed into a fallen state—yet God promised to bring restoration. In this addition to the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series, Frank Thielman traces the theme of the new creation through the...

but it seems likely that God wants his human creatures to be satisfied with the provision he himself has made for them and to continue to trust him to provide for them in the future. As Gordon Wenham has argued, God especially wants the man and woman to trust him with the knowledge of what is morally best for them—to realize, in the words of Proverbs 1:7, that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” and that only “fools despise wisdom and instruction.”11 To seek knowledge of good and
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