God. God continually commissions God’s children to create. But as all good teachers do, God first creates a context for creativity. God had an educational plan for Adam and so created a “discovery zone” (not a correctional institution!) in Eden. Zones for discovery serve as foundation blocks for a human society to thrive. Our education plan involves all of our senses, our intellect, our emotions, and our empathic capacities, as well as our spiritual capacities. We are to “love the Lord [our] God with all [our] heart and with all [our] soul and with all [our] mind” (Matthew 22:37). We are to
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