A Perfect Creation

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ROBERT E JOYCE has been chaplain to the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons since 1990. He also ministers worldwide as a motivational speaker, relationship expert, life coach; and serves as senior pastor to Life Center Church which he and his late wife, LaVern, founded in 1982. Life Center Church is a center for ministry training in the northwest suburbs of Detroit, Michigan.

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A new understanding of creation and of ourselves. A PERFECT CREATION challenges both creationists and theistic evolutionists to look deeper into the infinite intimacy of God in gifting us to BE. We are called to acknowledge our hidden failure of personal gratitude for our own be-ing. We are seen to be not the only cause of darkness, pain, and evil in our lives, but the ultimate cause. We have spiritually repressed our absolute origin in God and have confused our coming to be in cosmic creation with our originative creation out of nothing. The Book of GENESIS and the rest of the Bible deal largely with the creation of rescue--done by God out of the void, darkness, dust, et al. caused by our pristine personal failure to say fully YES to the gift of being. The original history-making sin of Adam and Eve in Eden is seen as a major symptom of the originative sin of each one of us WITH Adam and Eve, ex nihilo. We are now awakening to the prospects and hope of living forever in repentant glory.