CREATOR
Creator
Taken in its strict sense, this title belongs to God alone. The Creator is God’s proper name. The name Yahweh by which God revealed Himself to Moses means the Supreme Being, the Creator. The Creator is one who not merely fashions and modifies preexisting materials, but who produces a thing according to its entire substance, independently of any subject matter. Things so produced are called creatures, and are essentially dependent on the Creator. God is sole Creator. He is the Supreme Self-existing Being, the Absolute and Infinite First Cause, to whose omnipotent word or fiat all substances and energies and laws owe their existence and continued existence. “In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” (Genesis 1) Creation does not exclude the possibility of evolution, i.e., given once the existence of creatures, some of them may develop new forms or variations. The Creator might use this method to develop and perfect His universe, whose various substances and forces He brought into being from nothing when time began with creatures, though there is as yet no real evidence of His doing so. When a new substance like the human soul comes into existence, its origin is due to God’s immediate creative act. For not all nature can produce even a new material substance, and much less a new spiritual substance like the soul of each man, nor can any artifice of science produce life in any form, vegetable, animal, much less human. The All-wise, Almighty, All-good Creator by the exercise of His free will commands, and creatures begin to be as and when He decrees, and develop according to His plan and purpose. Thus God the Creator is the Lord, the Upholder, and the Ruler of the universe.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Creator
See Maker
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Creator
kre-ater (, ktistes, 1Pe 4:19): The distinctive characteristic of Deity, as the Creator, is that He is the Cause of the existent universe – Cause of its being, not merely of its evolution or present arrangements.
1. God as Creator
The doctrine of His being the Creator implies, that is to say, that He is the real and the exclusive Agent in the production of the world. For, as Herder remarked, the thought of the Creator is the most fruitful of all our ideas. As Creator, He is the Unconditioned, and the All-conditioning, Being. The universe is Thus dependent upon Him, as its causative antecedent. He calls it, as Aquinas said, according to its whole substance, into being, without any presupposed basis. His power, as Creator, is different in kind from finite power. But the creative process is not a case of sheer almightiness, creating something out of nothing, but an expression of God, as the Absolute Reason, under the forms of time and space, causality and finite personality. In all His work, as Creator, there is no incitement from without, but it rather remains an eternal activity of self-manifestation on the part of a God who is Love.
2. Purpose in Creation
God’s free creative action is destined to realize archetypal ends and ideals, which are peculiar to Himself. For thought cannot be content with the causal category under which He called the world into being, but must run on to the teleological category, wherein He is assumed to have created with a purpose, which His directive agency will see at last fulfilled. As Creator, He is distinct from the universe, which is the product of the free action of His will. This theistic postulation of His freedom, as Creator, rules out all theories of necessary emanation. His creative action was in no way necessarily eternal – not even necessary to His own blessedness or perfection, which must be held as already complete in Himself. To speak, as Professor James does, of the stagnant felicity of the Absolute’s own perfection is to misconceive the infinite plenitude of His existence, and to place Him in a position of abject and unworthy dependence upon an eternal activity of world-making.
3. Relation to Time
God’s action, as Creator, does not lower our conception of His changelessness, for it is a gratuitous assumption to suppose either that the will to create was a sudden or accidental thing, or that He could not will a change, without, in any proper sense, changing His will. Again, grave difficulties cluster around the conception of His creative thought or purpose as externalized in time, the chief source of the trouble being, as is often imperfectly realized, that, in attempting to view things as they were when time began, we are really trying to get out of, and beyond, experience, to the thinking of which time is an indispensable condition. God’s work as Creator must have taken place in time, since the world must be held as no necessary element in the Absolute Life.
4. Christ in Creation
The self-determined action of the Divine Will, then, is to be taken as the ultimate principle of the cosmos. Not to any causal or meta-physical necessity, but to Divine or Absolute Personality, must the created world be referred. Of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things (Rom 11:36). This creative action of God is mediated by Christ – by whom were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him (Col 1:16). See CREATION.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Creator
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth;” this was followed by His creating all that has breath, and finally man; who is exhorted to remember his Creator in the days of his youth. Ecc 12:1. The heathen world are charged with serving the creature more than the Creator. Rom 1:25. Of the Son of God it is said, “all things were created by him and for him.” Joh 1:3; Col 1:16. This has been deemed a difficulty by some minds, but Heb 1:2 should entirely remove this, where it is stated that God has spoken by “his Son . . . . by whom also he made the worlds.” Therefore God is the Creator, and the Son is the Person in the Godhead by whom the whole universe was created. To his Creator man owes allegiance. The Psalmist devoutly said, “Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker,” Psa 95:6; whereas of the wicked it is said, “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker.” Isa 45:9.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
CREATOR
(1) Creator of the Natural Universe, God as
Gen 1:1; Exo 20:11; Neh 9:6; Job 12:9; Job 26:7; Psa 24:2; Psa 33:6; Psa 95:5
Psa 102:25; Psa 104:5; Isa 40:28; Isa 45:12; Isa 48:13; Act 4:24; Act 7:50; Act 14:15
Act 17:24; Heb 11:3
–SEE God’s Works, WORKS OF GOD
Heavens (1), HEAVENS
(2) Creator of Man, God as
Gen 1:26; Gen 2:7; Gen 5:2; Deu 4:32; Job 33:4; Psa 8:5; Psa 100:3; Isa 51:13
Mal 2:10; Act 17:28
(3) Christ as
–SEE Christ Creator, CHRIST JESUS
(4) Holy Spirit as
Gen 1:2; Job 26:13; Job 33:4; Psa 104:30