Destruction

It is constantly presented to me that God is a creative Being and that we, as creatures made in His image are also creative. When we produce art we are bearing His image by being, ourselves, creative.

Much 20th-21st Century art, however, is quite destructive. Although some of this art seeks to be "creative" in its destructiveness, I would argue that a substantial amount of art from the past 100 years, at its core, pits itself against anything that would try to create. It destroys --frequently for no reason, or for the simple pleasure of tearing something apart.

Does such art cast off the image of God? Or does it simply bear the image in a different way? Couldn't God also be considered a Destroyer? Genesis tells us He destroyed the world with water once. He scattered the nations by confounding their speech. He obliterated Sodom and Gomorra, commanded the Israelites to wipe their enemies off the face of the earth, nearly eliminated the tribe of Benjamin, and has promised to destroy the world again. But it is striking that God is often called the Creater, and never (to my knowledge) the Destroyer.