Отдел первый. О Боге как Творце мира

§ 2. Division of this doctrine The first action of God in relation to all finite being was the creation of this being itself. God, the church teaches, is “the Creator of heaven and earth, visible to all and invisible,” i.e., the entire totality of finite existence, consisting of the invisible world of disembodied spirits, the visible or material world and man - a sensory-spiritual being, on one side of his nature adjacent to the spiritual world, and on the other to the material 19. The doctrine that God is the Creator of the whole world is one of the main dogmas of Christianity, with which the doctrine of God is closely connected (the dogmas of God as a personal Spirit, the Holy Trinity and the doctrine of the knowledge of God in general), and the doctrine of the entire economy of human salvation. With the acceptance or rejection of this dogma, all our views on God and the world, on our position in the world and moral purpose change. In the teaching of revelation and the church, the doctrine of God - the Provider of the world, offers a solution to both all the most significant general questions about the origin of everything that exists, as well as the doctrine of the origin of each individual of the most important types of created being. In accordance with this, the teaching about God the Creator can be divided into the general teaching about God as the Creator of everything that exists, and the particular teaching, i.e., the teaching about Him as the Creator of the most important types of created being, namely: a) the spiritual world (angels), b) the visible world and c) the small world - man and the entire human race. “For this reason, man is called the small world: for he bears on himself the image of the entire great world” (Right. confession. 1 part 18 questions). Hence the terms: microcosm (from μικρός - small and κόσμος - world), applied to man, and macrocosm (from μακρός - long, large and κόσμος), used to designate the universe in general. You might be interested in: