Real Creation Took Place When God Created part 2

 

Real Creation Took Place When God Created part 2 

          We know from Genesis 1:27 that mankind was created in the image of God—“So God created man in his own image…”  The Hebrew word tselem (6754) which has been rendered image in the AV connotes an illusion, resemblance or a representative figure.  So, Christian musicians were created by our heavenly Father as representative figures or little “shadows” of an infinite God.  We are made in His image, but we are not gods or are we actually like God. I like to use the illustration of a person holding their hand directly below a bright light.  The image of a hand that is seen on the floor is not a hand, but it is the image of the real hand that is above it. 

It is important to point out that God created; he made us in his image so we are called on to be “Creative” but we are in no way creators.  Only God can take nothing and make something out of it. When a Christian musician exercises his God given “Creativeness” he takes the building blocks of music, which were created by God, and arranges them into what is hopefully a “creative” musical composition.

When Christian musicians use terms like creation, creative, creating, creative effort, creative genius, creative ability, and creative talent when they are referring to the work of a musician, they are using the terms loosely.  God has given many musicians unusual musical ability to perform, arrange, compose, and orchestrate music, but God has never given a musician the ability and power to start with nothing and form something out of that nothingness.