what it means to be Created

Creation is, as Plantinga put it, a fallen masterpiece that can be repaired. He compares it to a Banged-up, badly repaired, out-of-tune Stradivarius violin that would be unmistakable to a trained eye and ear much as we are unmistakable pieces of God's workmanship and as sure we retain some part of its goodness and promise. This idea is also interconnected with the idea that humanity and all things have been created by God from nothing or as Mr. Paulo Ribeiro put it
"(0)^God=(universe)."

This is an important thing when we look at the world today because it would be hypocritical of us to say we love God and yet exploit God's other creations. This would be much the same as a man saying he loves his wife and his wife loves to paint, but instead of appreciating and respecting the paintings, he takes a knife and begins to cut holes in the paintings. This action would of course greatly anger his wife and rightly so. Thus why do we do harm to our neighbors and act as if God would not care? I think this points to our own fallen natures and explains why humanity cannot of its own accord fix creation. We need God to renew creation and mend the holes we have cut into the tapestries of our own and others' lives So that we can reach the purpose of our creation which is to imitate the oneness of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Another important corollary that we can draw from God having created the universe of his own will and desire and nothing more is that nothing was created accidentally. This means that our life's must have purpose. Now we can choose whether or not to follow this purpose during this life, but I believe in the end all things must praise God and give him glory in their own fashion because we are his creation the testament to his mastery of all things there is nothing that we can do that God cannot use to further his glory and his greatest reward is to have us be known as ones who played a part in furthering God's glory. All other honors are finite and amount to nothing in comparison so there is no difference between he who has God and everything else and he who has only God which shows that God does not favor old or recent believers, but rather all that are believers.