According to Judaism (as I was taught it), God is continuously renewing creation. God didn't just fire and forget but is actively involved, every day, every sunrise, every sunset...
And thinking about it more ... at university I was taught (by a Catholic philosophy prof.) that God "exists outside of time". And Creation being an ever-ongoing process is more consistent with that than Creation being an all-in-the-past, timewise-completed event.
I've always figured that humans having the urge to create -- in large and small ways even when we don't think of ourselves as 'artists' -- is a part of what "created in God's image" means.
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I love the idea of God as an Artist. As the first Artist.
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According to Judaism (as I was taught it), God is continuously renewing creation. God didn't just fire and forget but is actively involved, every day, every sunrise, every sunset...
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And thinking about it more ... at university I was taught (by a Catholic philosophy prof.) that God "exists outside of time". And Creation being an ever-ongoing process is more consistent with that than Creation being an all-in-the-past, timewise-completed event.
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Yeah, God is not bound by time (nor by anything else). What you were taught fits with what I was taught.
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