Is the creative restricted to God alone? No. The bible clearly teaches us that man, was created in the likeness of God:
"Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”" (Ge 1:26, NKJV)
Theologians call the attributes of man, which are in someway ‘like’ that of God’s the communicable attributes of God. These are attributes such as, mental reasoning, morality, love, will, and freedom. Even though we are made in the likeness of God we do not share these attributes in the ‘fullness’, but just in the ‘likeness’. So I believe it is with the creative. I believe it is one of the communicable attributes of God, which we ‘share’. God has released into every human being a level of creativity. An example of this ‘general’ creativity can be seen in the life of Adam and Eve. Even after sinning, they used their God given creativity to ‘make’ a covering for themselves out of leaves. That takes quite a high level of creativity!
"Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”" (Ge 1:26, NKJV)
Theologians call the attributes of man, which are in someway ‘like’ that of God’s the communicable attributes of God. These are attributes such as, mental reasoning, morality, love, will, and freedom. Even though we are made in the likeness of God we do not share these attributes in the ‘fullness’, but just in the ‘likeness’. So I believe it is with the creative. I believe it is one of the communicable attributes of God, which we ‘share’. God has released into every human being a level of creativity. An example of this ‘general’ creativity can be seen in the life of Adam and Eve. Even after sinning, they used their God given creativity to ‘make’ a covering for themselves out of leaves. That takes quite a high level of creativity!
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