Sunday Veritas: Creator and Creation

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Beginning in the book of Genesis, the Bible sets God as the Creator. Moses reminds the children of Israel in Deuteronomy that God is the Creator, who made and formed them. The Prophet Isaiah says that God is “the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it.” Isaiah 42:5). Jesus told the Pharisees “Haven’t you read that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,” (Matthew 19:4).

There is a clear distinction between the Creator and creation. The Creator is the one who through his spoken word expressed his imagination and creativity. “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” (Psalm 33:6). The creation is the expression of God’s collective inspiration, imagination, creativity, inventiveness, and realization. The beauty of creation points out the awesomeness of the Creator.

In the narrative of creation in Genesis, after creating physical things like dry land, vegetation, seas, fishes, birds, and animal, God describes it as good. However, after man’s creation He says that was very good. Not diminishing the value of creation, the creation of man was better than the rest of creation. For the Apostle Paul man is the crown of creation, God’s master peace. Man’s creation was unique because from all created things, man is the only one created in the image of the Creator who desired to have someone in his own image and likeness to take care of his creation.

The relationship between the Creator and creation is that creation declares the splendor of the Creator. The same way the star guided Wiseman from east to the incarnated Son of God, nature is a guide to the creator God. The Psalmist exclaims “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?” (Psalm 8:3-4)

David concludes the Psalms with a call to worship: “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.” (Psalm 150:6)

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