The Distinctions God Makes and Man's Rebellious Attempt to Erase Them
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The act of creating something largely consists in making distinctions. Whether we are painting, writing music, building a website, or designing a rocket, at a most basic level we use color, tone, material, layout, shape and so many other details to make our creation what it is rather than something else. You can't just generically create - you have to create something in particular, and the process of creating involves distinguishing what your creation is from the infinitude of things it could have been but is not.
The Distinctions God Makes and Man's Rebellious Attempt to Erase Them
The Distinctions God Makes and Man's…
The Distinctions God Makes and Man's Rebellious Attempt to Erase Them
The act of creating something largely consists in making distinctions. Whether we are painting, writing music, building a website, or designing a rocket, at a most basic level we use color, tone, material, layout, shape and so many other details to make our creation what it is rather than something else. You can't just generically create - you have to create something in particular, and the process of creating involves distinguishing what your creation is from the infinitude of things it could have been but is not.