Notes for19 March 2025

All the process of the Creation of the world described in the first chapter of the book of Genesis is accompanied with this refrain: "good!" And, finally, at the end of the last sixth day sounds: "Behold, very good". That is how God appraises the results of His work. Haven’t you come to meet with an opposite evaluation of this world? Certainly, we can always object the fact that God created all good, and man having then stood up on the way of the Fall, spoiled everything. But then we can have again some questions. Can we consider of good something, in which was put the seed of the future "evil"? Does God really attribute to Himself the highest mark for an intermediate result? Can God really go to rest without finishing the work? And if this work is finished, then it is imperfect, since it can be deformed insomuch. But shouldn’t the Creation be in the long run accomplished, once it is the Perfect God, Who accomplishes it!

We can answer to all these questions with a counter-question: «Did God retired from His deeds? All the experience of God's relationship with man, revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures isn’t it telling that God continues to act?"So in this sense the Creation is not accomplished, it is just that man, having appeared into the created world participates as well in this process, hindering mostly, than helping God. But with the arrival into the world of the perfect God-man, the Christ, a turning point took place in the opposition between the creation and the destruction, because in Christ man begins to cooperate with God, moving gradually closer to this end of the Creation, when all can say in chime: "Behold, very good!"