SPA I

     When God created the world within those six days of Creation Week, He created a world that worked. It was a working world. This world wasn’t some dysfunctional, balky prototype. The relationships between all the different components in His Creation worked flawlessly. God even says so during the Creation Week. Repeatedly, after each of the Creation Days, God looked over what He had made and pronounced that it was good (Genesis 1). When God says something is good, it’s not like when we say something is good. Too often, we say things are “good” when we really mean “good enough” or sometimes “not really good at all, but I really don’t feel like talking about all the things not going well, so I will just say good.” This is not like how God treats the word “good”. For Him, when He pronounces that something is good, He means it. Like when He says that He is good. That doesn’t mean that He is good enough to pass, mostly good, or even the best-at-it-but-no-one’s-perfect. God...