The Nature of Creativity

Ok, here's a discussion topic, and it's something I've thought about a decent amount. What is the nature of human creativity? In other words, are we truly creative, or are we simply doing things that we were programmed to do by God?

I like to tie this into freewill in the sense that both creativity and freewill break the law of cause and effect. God gave us an ability to create things that are unique to us, not just what he programmed to create. For example, when Beethoven wrote his 9^th symphony, God didn't insert that symphony into Beethoven's mind and then Beethoven wrote it out. God gave him the tools and talents to compose and then breathed life into Beethoven (the life that he breathes into all humans – the Biblical “spirit”) and gave Beethoven unprogrammed freewill, and unprogrammed creativity.

For clarification, when I say “unprogrammed,” I'm trying to make a point that this is true freewill and true creativity. If God put into our minds what he wanted us to choose but then made us think that we were choosing it on our own, then that's a farce, and it is what I would call programming. Instead, I believe he made us like him in that we can truly do our own thing, both in our choices and also in what we create. I like to imagine that one of God's greatest joys is seeing us create and come up with things that he didn't think up himself at all. Now of course, he could have thought them up, just like God could have written Beethoven's 9^th, but my point is that he chooses not to and instead enjoys watching to see what we do. For we are the only other creatures in the universe besides him that can actually create new things and freely choose.

That's my own personal take, what's yours?

P.S. This might sound like it takes away some of God's sovereignty, but I don't think it does, just like I don't think freewill does. God chooses to give us creativity and freewill, and although he chooses not control or interfere with either, he ultimately could take it away if he wanted.