I love posts that make my head explode

Abraham Piper’s post is titled:  “22 things God did not create.”   The list includes

• Love
• Beauty
• Truth
• Strength

Do you get it?

I didn’t. 

Luckily, I didn’t read the post until after Abraham clarified in a comment.  God didn’t create these things, because he IS these things, and he has always existed.  The commenters go on to list more.

Sin.  I buy it.  Sin is not a thing, it’s the absence of a right, obedient relationship with God.  I guess we humans can take credit for that creation.

Mystery. Power. Holiness.  Although perhaps, as was pointed out, holiness is only defined as a comparative characteristic.  So maybe it wasn’t created.  But it didn’t exist until after the Fall.

Awesome that so much of what we value in creation is present as an overflow of God’s basic nature.  Not because God thought “beauty” would be cool.