By: Thomas Clayton Booher Author’s Note: This article demonstrates how writing (in particular, fictional writing) reflects God’s work at creation and thereby gives writing a certain nobility. However, I don’t want the reader to think that if he is not a writer that he is doing nothing noble. All of our labors are to bring glory to God, and many of them do that through the imitation of God as the Grand Creator: cooking, gardening, carpentry, mechanical engineering, chemistry, hair dressing, interior design, landscaping, architecture, computer games, painting (commercial and fine art), et. al. For those of you who have an interest in writing, I hope this reinforces what a splendid labor awaits you. Reflecting God’s Creation Work in Our Writing Man was created in God’s image and as such it is a certainty that writers, members of the race of men, are also created in his image. There are many things that go into the meaning of ‘God’s image’ but I want to dwell a little o...
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