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In a good little book called The Story of Romans: A Narrative Defense of God's Righteousness, A. Katherine Grieb writes about God's righteousness:
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The Story of God's righteousness in Jesus Christ is at once the story of (1) God's sovereign renewal of the created cosmos, (2) God's redemption of humanity from universal bondage to Sin and Death, and (3) God's reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles (which involves both God's faithfulness to Israel and the keeping of God's promises for the Gentiles). It is critical to discern the apocalyptic framework in which the story appears: creations groans with expectation (Rom. 8:22) as Paul and his communities live out the script of the end time; they are players in the last act of God's apocalyptic drama of salvation, a story that began with creation and the fall and continues thorugh Israel's history up to the present moment" (p. xxiii)."
The story begins with creation: inevitably, God's relation with us and thus the span of his revelation is the whole creation: underlines that there is nothing apart from God and his actions that concerns our relationship with him.
Inserting naturalistic intervening processes, borrowed from a world view that turns from God seems to be fraught, because the creation that God relates into is the creation in his terms, and his terms are set out in Genesis 1. If we want to apply out terms, then we are speaking of another relationship between us/creation and God, not the one that he sets out as the basis for covenant, his love and our rebellion and the place where he overcomes our rebellion for our good and his glory.
