<![CDATA[From the perspective of creative works, human beings and church music compositions are essentially the same: they are both creations. This creation did not come by chance, but was truly planned based on common sense, awareness, and goodwill. From the perspective of Susanne K. Langer's symbol theory, the human being and the musical composition of the church are created by creation (from the non-existent to the existing), as a symbolic form (as art that has undergone transformation), and as an aesthetic experience. The purpose of this article is to present a comparison between God's creation and man's creation as a creator. This study uses a qualitative-hermeneutic method combined with typological analysis. Its primary sources include Genesis 1-3, the philosophical works of Susanne K. Langer, and the scholarly literature on church theology, aesthetics, and music. The data were analyzed interpretively to identify the symbolic, aesthetic, and creative patterns possessed by the two forms of creation. The results of this study found that the meaning behind creativity (i.e. God and man) is "creator", the difference is that God "created something out of nothing", whereas composers do not create from absolutely nothing; they create from musical material, faith experiences, biblical texts, church traditions, and liturgical contexts. In other words, human creativity is a form of limited participation in Divine creativity, not a form of creation equivalent to Divine action.]]>
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