The theology of God as Creator is an important one. The implications are far-reaching and I keep bumping into them. Ancient scrolls of Hebrew historians trace lineage all the way back to the first man or, at least, the earliest man recorded in history (recorded as opposed to theorized on the basis of fossils). In these ancient documents, the first man is a created person not an evolved thing.
Think of any created thing. The creator has a purpose for it, a usage determined, a way to organize, store, clean, display, assemble, and a method to destroy. These boundaries for its existence can be followed or ignored. While a human is much more than a thing, our own awareness can sabotage us from the reality that our existence and the boundaries for it are set by someone other than ourselves.
What am I feeling? What am I doing in life? How am I to treat myself and others? How am I to live before I die? When Someone else has made you, submission is natural. You are not your own. When Someone else has made you, questions of who you are and what your purpose is have a definitive answer. They don’t get lost in the cosmos. They are personal questions asked by one person of the Ultimate Person.
If Creator God made everything, this sheds light on the utter arrogance it is to deny His existence. Did any of us form ourselves or decide when and where and to whom we would be born? No. Fallen humanity is rift with terrifying amounts of pride.
Political implications are here also. If one subscribes to God as Creator, than God’s descriptions of how His creation will act (self-govern) are guideposts for our expectations of how they will interact with laws, etc., (other-governed).
What can we expect out of life, out of ourselves? What can we control, what should we control, how should we attempt to control/not control? God as Creator has significant impact on all of these struggles. This framework has steered me clear of so many subtle influences about who I am or who I should be or how I should operate in the world. And not just who I am here and now but who I am for eternity as I exist forever. I’m still learning from it.
I don’t have a good end, some snazzy way to wrap it all up. The more the theology of God as Creator is applied to what I face in my life or in the world around me, the more I get why the Bible starts with Creation as it’s opening statement. It’s slowly becoming the opening statement for my life as well.
