The foundational Christian belief about God is that God is creator.
‘We believe in God, Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible’. Nicene Creed
This belief is the fons et origo of the whole scriptural narrative of God’s dealings with the world and humanity – it is where the story must start and flow from – and if we get our understanding of creation wrong, then we end up with a misunderstanding of God and a misconception of humanity’s place in the world. Four convictions emerge from the biblical narrative.
SEPARATE
The first is that God is separate from his creation. ‘Separation’ is a repeated theme in the creation narratives in Genesis 1 and 2, and in contrast to other creation narratives in the ancient near east, creation is not part of God and so worship is to be reserved for God alone and not given to any part of the created order.
