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From the first pages of Scripture, before we know much of anything about God, we know He\u2019s a God of repetitive ritual actions and formalized speech. We already know He\u2019s the divine liturgist.<\/p>\n

Beginning with Day 3, something else begins to happen. On Day 1, God speaks to nothing, because there is nothing other than God. His speech makes the auditor. Once the seas and land have appeared, though, He addresses them<\/em>. \u201cLet the earth sprout vegetation\u201d and \u201cLet the waters teem with swarms of living creatures.\u201d And when he calls on earth to sprout, fruit trees and grain plants spring up from the land. He calls on the waters to teem with living souls, and living souls swarm the seas.<\/p>\n

God the divine liturgist forms creation as a liturgical partner, a respondent who can speak and act in ecstatic obedience to His creative word.<\/p>\n

Continued at\u00a0Patheos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"