Creativity

God’s creativity

Isaiah 64:8 ESV

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

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God is the source of human creativity

Exodus 35:30–35 ESV

Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

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Creativity for its own sake

Ecclesiastes 2:4–6 ESV

I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

Creativity used in the service of God

Building the tabernacle and temple

Exodus 36:8 ESV

And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked.

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Music and dancing

Psalm 149:3 ESV

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

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The abuse of human creativity

Human creativity, like all of God’s gifts, can be abused by sinful human beings, and used to dishonour him rather than serve him.

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