If I create something, am I allowed to destroy it?

Question

Excerpt from an answer on a previous question: "suppose you created a beautiful masterpiece work of art... what if you decided to destroy it? You created it, you have every right."

He was using that as an analogy to explain why God has the right to kill humans, His creations.

Does that right extend to human beings? Are they allowed to destroy what they create? ANYTHING they create?

John, whoever. You, the law, society in general, "God", etc.

biblegracespirit, so... I can destroy something that I conjured out of thin air? THEN I can destroy my creations?

Annie Oakley, that didn't actually answer my question. "Read the Bible" doesn't tell me how YOU PERSONALLY would answer this question. By the by, thank you so much for threatening me with malicious reporting when I emailed you and asked you not to respond unless you're actually going to answer the question asked. It's attitudes like that that make Christianity seem all the more appealing!

Answer 1

Yachadhoo, et. al., if you want to interpret "create" so strictly, perhaps you should interpret "destroy" the same way. To the best of my knowledge, people are not capable of causing physical matter to un-exist (though we can convert some of it into energy).

Besides that, I believe I *can* create ideas. If I can't, then there's no such thing as free will, is there?

I can create order within physical things. While I may not be able to cause materials to leap into existence, I can create structures from/within/among them.

I think the real question is: just because you do something, does that give you the right to undo it? If you paint a masterpiece, are you allowed to reduce it to component pieces/ashes/poster-sized reproductions?

My answer is: so long as nobody else has a stake in the matter, yes. If you make a bowl and decide you don't like it, go ahead and smash it. No problem.

But if you've made a house that someone else owns, you don't just get to knock it down. You have to buy it back first. And if Mark 12:17 is true, then there are some things that belong to humans. It would be uncivil for God to destroy them without at least asking first.

Answer 2

That depends entirely on the object of creation. Some creations are more important than the person that make the creation and others doesn't have and specific creator. If I design a building for a client, can I have the right to demolish the building? I don't think so.
If a superior entity create this planet or Universe he lost the power to control it. No doubt.

Answer 3

It depends a lot on what you have made. If it is intelligent and self-aware, then killing it is murder.

Of course, if you create a giant, super intelligent robot that is armed with missiles and machine guns, then whether or not you have a right to destroy it is not the real question you should be asking. You should be worrying about if it is going to decide that it has the right to destroy you :)

Answer 4

Like some of the others said if u created it and its not a living being then yes but if its a human no u did not create a human God did and frankly i don't like this question your being rude to some of these people what did they do to you when u ask a question they can answer any way they won't to as long as they don't be rude and out of every 1 i read of the answers were not rude i found only 1 that i did not like and ur question is ok but the details u added was the rude part and i don't care what u say about me like its going to affect me so go on and be ur rude self see if i care im just pointing it out so u can see yourself being rude and God does not kill humans Satan does.

Answer 5

Sorry to bust your bubble but human beings cannot create, they manipulate. You used the masterpiece deal, well you would have to take existing materials and manipulate them to make that.

Try and make something out of nothing using only your mind and your speech. That is what God did. If you can do that, then I guess you have the right to destroy it.

Answer 6

I helped make a baby... does that mean I can destroy it? If this is the logic, why can't women get abortions? their bodies are creating the baby, so they should have the right to destroy according to the logic....

I myself am not anti or pro-abortion, as it exists in a grey area...

I guess Vegas didn't get it. Not top of his class I guess...

Answer 7

God gives and He takes away. He has the right to do this because everything belongs to Him.

We have the free will and we are allowed to destroy other human beings however, when we do this, it is called murder by God and is therefore sin. There are consequences to sin.

Answer 8

I might be wrong but I believe where you're going with this is if one has a child do they have the right to destroy that child because they created it. The problem is we don't create life, we might help it through it's development but we didn't create life.

Answer 9

I am glad to see that you are searching for the truth.

Would you mind studying the Bible for yourself, rather than relying on all the misinterpretations that are floating around out there?

This is the best Bible to study:
Life Application Bible ~ New International Version.
This Bible has commentary on each page to explain what the scriptures mean, in an easy-to-understand way.

Answer 10

Did you create an intelligent being? If you did, then no, you do not have that right.

A work of art, a pot, or a computer is not a living, thinking, feeling entity. To deliberately kill an intelligent being is murder. No matter if you "created" it or not.