Colossians 2

To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.

Not just suffering

In Paul's letters, the command to walk is moral exhortation.

If anyone can wax poetic about the power of a clean slate, it's Paul. In his mystical meanderings on the human body's relationship to the body of Christ, he doesn't ground his hope in the things that humans do (or don't do) in response to tradition, social pressure, or threats. He grounds it in the inclusive finality of Jesus Christ himself.

The biological concept of convergence lends credence to a Christian view of providence—and fits with a scriptural account of a story-shaped world.