What is creating? According to the dictionary, the word “create” means to make something new to exist. For instance, God created the world. Being creative means the use of one’s imagination to produce the work of art. According to most religions, God is the only being who have powers to create perfectly. A nineteenth century writer said that the universe is a perfect piece of clockwork wound up by God to tick forever.
According to the creation theory, God created man with his own hands. In fact, man was the only creature that God created using his hands. So far, we do not know how angels and the rest of heavenly beings were created.
Can man create perfectly? Some philosophers think that man cannot be able to create perfectly. They say that any attempt to become a creator fails miserably. When he attempts to create, the creation brings to him injuries. For instance, when man creates a machine, the creation brings him injuries later on. We have witnessed numerous cases of road or air accidents. Some weapons such as nuclear warheads can cause disastrous damages. Those are some of the cases that can help us prove that the machines created by men are not perfect.
The only way which man has been a successful creator is through pro creation. God created man as a perfect creature and through pro creation; man is able to share this characteristic with God himself.
The penis is the symbol of man’s creativity. It was given to man by God to help him create more peoples. Through it, man is able to become a perfect creator. For this reason, he was ordered to circumcise it as a sacrifice to gods or God so that he would be allowed to become a creator and continue using it.
On the other hand, the woman was told that she would be feeling pain while given birth to a child. Giving birth makes her to become a creator goddess.
When someone becomes an intellectual writer, we say that he is a creative genius. The shape of the writing pen similar to man’s penis and the book to woman’s womb – the pen is the penis and book the woman womb. In this, both man and woman become perfect creators.
©Mungai Mwangi 2015
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