“For Van Til, creation did not merely establish the self-existence of God. The Creator-creature distinction, rightly understood, did not devolve into the Barthian skepticism of a “wholly other God” of pure transcendence. Just as integral to Van Til’s doctrine of creation was the Creator-creature relationship. As Van Til learned especially from his Princeton Seminary professor Geerhardus Vos, creation was synonymous with covenant. To be fashioned in the image of God was to be in covenant with God. All of God’s words and works entail his covenant relationship with humanity, and thus human beings were divided into two camps: covenant keepers who worshiped and served the Creator as his image bearers, and covenant breakers who worshiped and served the creature, in whose image they fashioned God. This way of articulating a philosophy of history, “baldly stated” by Van Til’s own admission, was foundational for a Reformed apologetic” (John R. Muether, Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman, 128).