To bring back to an original state of wholeness, soundness, or favor. The Hebrew root shub (turn, return, restore) runs through Scripture from the personal (he restoreth my soul, Ps 23:3) to the prophetic call for national repentance (Jer 15:19; Hos 6:1) to the sweeping promise of Joel 2:25: I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. The Greek New Testament uses apokathistemi (Acts 3:21) of the eschatological restoration of all things. Christian salvation is restoration to a deeper wholeness than Eden's, because the restored bear Christ's resurrection-life rather than Adam's original innocence. What God restores, He restores upward — not back to before-the-fall but forward to better-than-Eden.