"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease" (Genesis 8:2). ​ Once the world was not. Science now knows what faith knew before—that the universe had a beginning. The earth as a bio-system ‘endures’ reliably on its life-giving, life-sustaining way, not because it is eternally self-sustaining, but because it is backed by a supernatural intention to preserve humans and cause them to thrive. God cares for

“But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of the covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence” (2 Kings 13:23). This testimonial comments on God’s faithfulness to his people, Israel during a period of its history marked by serial apostasy and idolatry. God’s determination to be in relationship with human beings, for them to know him and apprec