New Creation through Suffering
In the book of Genesis, the story of creation starts with the words “In the beginning, God created… and on the seventh day, He rested.” In a sense, creation was “over,” but in another, it was not, because every time a man and a woman beget a child, a new human being with a mortal body and an immortal soul comes into existence, a body and soul they and others can nurture, which means men and women have the honor of participating in God’s ongoing creation. When Adam and Eve tr