Only
through faith in Jesus Christ may we confess that God the Father Almighty is
Creator of Heaven and Earth. To begin with, we only learn about the Father and
Creator through the Son and Reconciler by the power of the Spirit and Redeemer.
Furthermore, God the Creator is God the Father of Jesus Christ. God the Father
begets the Son and with the Son posits the Holy Spirit. God the Father as
Creator posits creation, or all that exists which is not God, in an analogous
way. Conversely, it is only as the Father of the Son in the unity of the Holy
Spirit that God reveals himself to us as Creator. Finally, God acts as Creator,
not only once in the beginning, but every moment ever since. This action too is
analogous only to his eternal begetting of the Son.
In
making this confession, we may affirm that God could exist without the world
but the world cannot exist without God. This makes creation an absolutely free
expression of his love. Therefore God as Creator always relates to us in
sovereign love while we always relate to him as creatures dependent upon and
defined by his love.
God
created Heaven and Earth. Heaven is distinct from Earth. Heaven is invisible
and above and superior to Earth while Earth is visible and below and
subordinate to Heaven. Both are equal in dignity in relation to God and as
established in this order by God. All that is not God is Heaven and Earth in
their differentiated unity. Man alone stands at the intersection and as the
unity of both Heaven and Earth because the eternal Son and Word chose to become
a human being rather than an angel or animal. And Jesus Christ is the center
and epitome of all that we confess God made when we call him Creator.
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by Steven Farsaci.
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