The predominantly Western approach proclaims the will of a transcendent personal God known in revelation. The Israelites were saved out of Egyptian bondage and entered into covenant with the Lord their savior at Sinai. Through the sacrifice of Jesus God in Christ became the savior of others as well. Through the revelation of the Qur'an Muslims have submitted themselves to God. Even the creation of the world is held to be a contingent act, one which God need not have performed.
Creation is understood somewhat differently in process thought.
It is not the calling into being of that which had no being, but the divine persuasion urging the world toward greater complexity, an increase in order, first of matter and then of life. Divine persuasion by means of aim is the way novelty can be introduced into the world. It depends, to be sure, upon the mentality of the creatures to be affected by possibilities God provides, for only thus can any novelty emerge. Mentality is required for the actualization of anything really new. This need not mean, however, as Whitehead thought, that every present actuality must have some degree of mentality.