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New Testament writers to develop a new religion with a unique cosmology, they accepted the creation account of the First Testament at face value It is also obvious that the New Testament authors accepted the First Testa-ment as a book of history The stories of the New Testament were not seen as etiologies, grandiose myths, or soap opera novels
The Christian doctrine of Cosmology is the study of the world primarily as the sphere of redemption The word Cosmology comes from the two Greek words, "Kosmos" meaning world, or world order, and "Logos" meaning speech, or reason, hence the treatise or reasoned discourse on the world, especially as concerning creation and preservation
Christianity and Cosmology DAVID W HAY THE aim of this article is to bring out some much-neglected New Testament teaching, to assert that the Gospel contains truths of a · cosmological character, and to indicate that these truths are indispensable for understanding the new union with God that man has in Christ The basis
Cosmology and New Testament Theology 71 reader into a systematic and biblical research The climax of demonstrations represents the concept of personification of the Cosmos in Romans 8 19-22 which, after human sin action, expect the restoration to its purpose, after the beginning made into Christ resurrection (1 Corinthians 15 45) In this case the
4 The following scholars are representative of those who hold that Pauline theology is essen-tially soteriological and not really interested in cosmological concerns R Bultmann, Theology of the New Testament (New York Scnbners, 195155) 227232, 254259, J M Robinson, "A
cosmology of the N T , with heaven up, with earth in?between and hell underneath, is incredible So are the N T stories which directly presuppose this cosmology: for example, the story of the Ascension or the claim that Jesus descended into hell The traditional hope that the