Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight Laugh Feast network.

There is nothing new under the sun, declared the Koelelf, King Solomon, more than three millennia ago.

Indeed, even the most pressing hot button issues in our culture today are anything but unprecedented or new. So for instance, the

fractious debates over gender, race, and sexuality are merely the aberrant manifestations of a much greater and deeper issue.

Cosmology.

When the Apostle Paul describes the gospel, he begins at the very beginning.

These things are evident to all men since the creation of the world.

Indeed, he asserts asserts Christ is before all things and in him all things

hold together. It should not surprise us then that when as Christians we profess our faith we too begin at the beginning.

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, the maker of Heaven and Earth, of all things visible and invisible.

And of course, the Old Testament likewise begins at the beginning,

Berchif, Bara, I lochim,

Hamayam, Hashamayam, Hashamayam,

in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The Genesis account of creation details with stunning

clarity, God's purposes and intentions for his world. In the first two chapters, prior to the calamity of the

fall of man, God's perfect design is described in a series of mandates or ordinances.

The promise of the gospel is that Christ is restoring

every broken thing, that he's making all things new that he is ushering in a new

creation thus the great redemptive work is the restoration of those original ordinances.

...