📖 Biblical Definition
Creation and Re-Creation is the biblical pattern of God's creative acts. Genesis 1-2: the original creation. The Fall: creation marred. The Flood: creation washed and partially restarted. The Exodus: nation-creation. The Incarnation: new humanity beginning. The Resurrection: the firstfruits of new creation. Pentecost: new-covenant Spirit-pouring. The Second Coming: final cosmic re-creation. God creates; humanity falls; God re-creates. The pattern repeats in each saint's regeneration.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
(Biblical pattern.) God's original creation and successive recreative interventions, climaxing in the new creation.
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The pattern explicit at Pentecost: and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind (Acts 2:2) echoes the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters of Gen 1:2. Pentecost is creation re-enacted in the Spirit's pouring out.
2 Corinthians 5:17 carries it to the saint: therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Each conversion is a Genesis-1 echo.
📖 Key Scripture
Genesis 1:1 — "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Isaiah 65:17 — "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."
2 Corinthians 5:17 — "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Revelation 21:5 — "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Modern Christianity often loses the creation-creation pattern; reading the Bible noticing the recreation rhythms reveals God's consistent making-new of His marred creation.
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Each saint's conversion is a Genesis 1. Where there was darkness, light. Where there was void, life. Where there was chaos, order. The Spirit who moved over the waters at the beginning is moving over each soul that is being made new.
Revelation 21:5's Behold, I make all things new is the consummation of the pattern. Not I make all new things; I make all things new. The same creation, recreated. The marred original, restored to glory.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Hebrew bara (to create); Greek ktizô.
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Hebrew bara — to create; used almost exclusively of God in the Old Testament.
Greek ktizô — to create, found, build.
Usage
"Each saint's conversion is a Genesis 1."
"Behold, I make all things new — not all new things; all things new."
"The marred original, restored to glory."