9. What relationship is there between a literal Creation narrative and our salvation?

Jesus is the centerpiece of our salvation. In Him, Creation and salvation meet. Although Jesus spoke the world into existence in six literal days of perfect creation, the process of saving people stretches over millennia. God’s covenant to be faithful to His creation as they remain in Him finds its genesis with Adam and Eve, its relational significance in the agony of Christ on the cross of Calvary, and its zenith in our ultimate redemptionJTL12 6.3

Christ's perfect, divine hands first gave humanity life and Christ’s hands, pierced and blood-stained, will give humanity eternal life. We are not only created in His image; we are to be re-created to reflect His image more fully. Both creations are equally the work of Christ—neither has come from within through natural development.JTL12 6.4