It may seem I'm arguing for a smaller creator when I suggest that the creator is without every attribute but creativity. Yet unlimited creativity is more powerful than any other attribute. With creativity, anything is possible.
Perhaps in the beginning, the creator had a creative idea. Once the idea was created, the creator's relationship with it was passionate.
Many of us have had an idea about which were were passionate. Sometimes our ability to create - to make that idea real - falls short of our vision. But if God has unlimited creative power, God can make that entire vision true.
Some theologians have suggested that God, as lover, needed a beloved, and so either begat the son or created the universe. I suggest that the love is a product of the act of creation. God so loved the idea of the universe that God had to make it real.
When an author creates a world, the author knows that world best. Likewise, knowledge of the universe comes from being the source of the idea for the universe. Without creation, there is nothing to know.
In the act of creation, love and knowledge come into being.
This post is part of a series on Prodigal Creation.
Perhaps in the beginning, the creator had a creative idea. Once the idea was created, the creator's relationship with it was passionate.
Many of us have had an idea about which were were passionate. Sometimes our ability to create - to make that idea real - falls short of our vision. But if God has unlimited creative power, God can make that entire vision true.
Some theologians have suggested that God, as lover, needed a beloved, and so either begat the son or created the universe. I suggest that the love is a product of the act of creation. God so loved the idea of the universe that God had to make it real.
When an author creates a world, the author knows that world best. Likewise, knowledge of the universe comes from being the source of the idea for the universe. Without creation, there is nothing to know.
In the act of creation, love and knowledge come into being.
This post is part of a series on Prodigal Creation.
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