"So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." -Genesis 1:27
How does man resemble God? Did the fall destroy or hinder this image of God in man? Is Jesus Christ the exact image of God? How did God's Incarnation effect the image of God in man? Does this image differ with Christians and non-Christians? What do we do and not do to portray this image of God? Why are we supposed to portray the image of God? When will the image of God be made complete in man?
Man, every single man, resembles God. Whether black, white, male, female, american, indian, chinese, iraqi, african, baby, adult, toddler, teenager. Every person on this earth was created with a plan in Gods mind and God is constantly pursuing everyone, all over the World, at the same time.
Every man has four endowments from God--creative imagination, self-awarness, conscience, and independant will. Creativity give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Creativity and Artistry
Look around you. The birds, the trees, the oceans, the mountains, the colors, the noises, the lakes, the sea life, the desert, the stars, the moon, the UNIVERSE. It doesn't take a genius to know that God is creative. But God is creative from Genesis to Revelation. The Biblical concept embraces a much broader canvas than merely the physical creation in Genesis one.
God's creativity always contains something miraculous and mysterious. Deuteronomy 4:32 says, "Inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing [God's creative act], or has anything been heard like it?"
The Hebrew and Greek words for create, respectively, "bara" and "kitzo," are very similar in meaning and are employed sparingly to denote the pinnacles of God's achievements--creating the heavens and the earth, man, righteousness/justice, the nation Israel, the Church, reconciling Israel and the Church, the way in which he accomplished this, creating the New Jerusalem, and to regeneration and worship.
Basically, if the phenomenon can be explained away by natural means, it is no longer bara activity. As lofty and explosive as the word omnipotent, charged feelings of human astonishment accompany it.
Divine creativity - like all of God's characteristics - grow in proportion to our "connectedness" to Him. If we want to be more creative, we must draw closer to God
This is a quote from Ocho, an Indian Philosopher about the human's man's creativity. And althought he doesn't believe in Jesus Christ as Son of the Living God, he sure is onto something and his thoughts cannot be disregarded. He said, "Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things.... Not everybody can be a painter - and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him..."
One of the best ways to know God is to see God as Creativity. All people are born creative, each of course in the unique way in which he/she was wired. We are creative in the way we write, the way we read, the way we face crisis, the ways in which we relate to other people. We are creative with our decisions, and with our intellect; the way we conceive, consider, imagine, think, and weave is divinly creative. We are creative in the way in which we pereive things, and the way in which we bring about change. The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. When we allow ourselves to live in the creativity in which we were made, we are not only being true to the image of God which was established in us since the beginning, but we are allowing our minds to extend beyond the realities of the world and we permit ourselves to have an open mind about who God is and what He does. And when allow your view of God and what he does to be changed and not rest on the assumptions of everyone else... you are preparing yourself for REVELATIONS FROM GOD about the PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. God reveals things to those who creatively have an open heart and an open mind... those creative geniuses who don't get caught up in the realities in which we live.
Creativity takes us from the world of reality to the world of imagination; it makes the limits of reality dwindle and suddenly everything becomes possible with God.
The bible displays a grand and sweeping image for humanity. In that we are people of creativity and change, we share the Spirit of the Creator. When God speaks and says: “look, I am making all things new…,” life itself is held up as a constantly changing gift of the Creator that will be, in a new heaven and new earth, profoundly full and rich. God will not rest until that vision is reality.
As I said before, Divine creativity - like all of God's characteristics - grow in proportion to our "connectedness" to Him. If we want to be more creative, we must draw closer to God.
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