It isn't enough to say that the Creator God is the one who
fashions matter, the reason that there is something rather than nothing. This is significant, but it is not
enough. "Creation" is more than the act
of giving dead stuff it’s dead stuff-ness, to author a lifeless cosmos.
What is this God like?
For Moltmann, the God who is Creator is inseparable from the
God who raises the dead:
“The God who raises the dead is the same God who as creator
calls into being the things that are not; and the God who called the world into
existence out of nothing is the God who raises the dead. Beginning and end, creation and resurrection,
belong together and must not be separated from one another; for the
glorification of creation through the raising of the dead is creation’s
perfecting, and creation is aligned towards the resurrection of the dead.”
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