Christians, and Jews before them, had a large influence on the idea of creation throughout the history of mankind. The idea of an original creation by a single, omnipotent Creator came to the West through Moses, the greatest Hebrew prophet, and Moses also announced the paradoxical, mysterious nature of this Creator. The belief that God existed but his qualities could not be described became the basis of a whole new theology in which the Creator-God and man make a covenant establishing mutual obligations.
The Creators