Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Creation Moment 9/12/2024 - Doctrine of creatureliness

"Doctrine of creatureliness. This teaching states that humans are not
self-creators but creatures in a given and good (although fallen) creation.


Fundamentally, the word creatureliness implies the presence of three components: a Creator, a creature, and a context.

---Genesis introduces God as the Creator.
---This God fashioned Adam and Eve in his own image and gave them “dominion” over the earth (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). People are therefore part of creation yet also set apart from it.
---As contingent creatures in a universe we did not create, humans have not only moral limitations but also material limitations. We are physical creatures subject to physical laws
So we are not omnipresent
Even with technologies that expand the scope of realities with which we interact, our bodies locate us finitely in time and space
We are also not omnipotent
Natural constraints limit our abilities to manipulate anything but tiny fragments of an unfathomably vast universe. 
Neither are we omniscient
Apart from revelation, our knowledge is limited to what our senses perceive." AIG