Bridger Pennington explores how the Bible's opening line presents God as a creator, then connects that to human creativity. He cites Steve Jobs and Dubai's Museum of the Future as examples of how different religious traditions encourage people to be creators.
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Old Testament, right? The very first line of the Bible, God introduces himself, and he could have picked lots of ways to introduce himself. He could have said, I'm wonderful counselor, Lord, Savior, Almighty. Yeah. He says, in the beginning, God did what to the heavens and the earth? God created. Like, he's kind of like, hey, welcome to the book. Just so you know who I am, I'm a creator. And by the way, you're in my image and you're a creator. Steve Jobs was from a Buddhist bend. One of his famous quotes was, when you recognize that everything around you that you now call life was created by people no smarter than you, he says, You realize you can build your own things. He says, so don't just live a life, build one. Or another way to say it is, don't just live a life, create one. In Dubai, they just finished the Museum of the Future, written in Aramaic on the outside, right? It says, we may not live for thousands of years, but the products we create can and will. And so it says basically the same thing. Don't just live a life, create one. Yeah, be a creator. All of these different religious persuasions are saying the same thing to humanity. It's like, yo guys, you're here to create stuff.
