Question 27: Then, since maintaining creation in its proper state is a greater task than creating it once, why do you call God simply the Creator?

 Question 27: Then, since maintaining creation in its proper state is a greater task than creating it once, why do you call God simply the Creator?


Answer: This does not mean that God, after completing the great task of creating creation with His own hands, abandons it and does not care for it. Rather, it means that just as the world was first created by God, He still maintains it in that state, and that heaven, earth, and all creatures could not maintain their existence without His power.

Furthermore, because God holds all creatures in His hands, He has the authority to rule and govern all things. Therefore, because God is the Creator of heaven and earth, He directs all natural order through His love, power, and wisdom. This means that He gives rain and drought, hail and storms, good weather, abundant harvests and famine, health and various diseases. In short, this means that God always places all creatures under His rule so that they may serve Him according to His will.

God's plan and providence encompass the entire process, from creation to its demise, through His intervention, control, and guidance. To those who do not know Him, He reveals Himself through the laws of nature, and to those who do, through revelation. God carries out His will.

God's will is to lead the sinners of the world to repentance and become God's people through His Son. Therefore, God predestined Christ, and God Himself became the Son, came to the world in human form, died on the cross, and was resurrected. God became the Son to save sinners through His Son.

Salvation cannot be achieved without going through the Son, Jesus Christ. Therefore, those who are saved through the Son become those who call on the name of Jesus Christ and become saints.

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