The challenge comes when the beauty is enjoyed for its own sake. The wonder leads to worship of the artist, the music, or the emotional experience instead of God. As C. S. Lewis said, “The unbeliever is always apt to make a kind of religion of his aesthetic experiences.” He must do so because beauty enriches life and temporarily masks the pain.

Human minds spiritually darkened by the effects of sin often worship created things rather than their Creator (Rom. 1:25). Their lifestyles will show a desperate search for meaning, and their songs, poems, and sculptures will too. Human imagination creates perspectives on reality that express the hopelessness and emptiness of bearing His image but... See more

Our first glimpse of human creativity is Genesis 2:19: “Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name” (NIV). What is more natural for a human than to name something? Even... See more

God’s creation was and is fundamentally different than ours in that God created everything out of nothing. Our creations are more of a creative rearranging of raw materials that God has made. The painter uses God’s colors. The dancer uses a body God designed. A musician borrows God’s sound waves. Only God hasever created something out of nothing.... See more