CHAPTER VI.
THE CREATOR.
Creation Necessitates A Creator.
It is a revealed truth that God created man in His own image and likeness. God, then, is a Divine image and likeness of man—or, in other words, He is a Divine Man, and Person. This is also the claim of Jesus Christ, that God was made flesh, and dwelt among us, revealing Himself in His Divine Humanity. The doctrine of creation by Correspondence begins with this revealed truth. To accommodate the argument to reason, and to confirm it by rational truth, we will start with the axiom, which discussion can not make clearer or more certain, namely, that creation necessitates a Creator. This all are harmonious in conceding, for even those who think of a first cause as the Creator acknowledge a Creator under that idea. Differences arise when the Creator is limited to some finite idea, or is assumed to be some specific power or thing.
To begin our reasoning in full agreement, it is necessary only to have that intuition which
