Feb 10 2009
Creation As Gospel
This was part of the reading used in church this past Sunday, and I liked it so much that I wanted to post it here. Enjoy!
It is only in the Creation that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.
Do we want to contemplate his power? We see it in the immensity of the creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible Whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called the Creation.
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I am on record as saying that,
“The Creation is God’s most concrete and revealing revelation.”
I say similar things when opportunities to do so present themselves. I have often said that “each valid and verifiable scientific discovery is a small ‘r’ revelation of the mind of God.”
But don’t take my word for it, or even Thomas Paine’s word for it, St. Paul said pretty much the same thing the better part of two millennia ago in his epistle to the Romans -
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
Here is an important part of the scripture called the Creation that human beings would be very well advised to pay heed too.
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Do we want to see that we is he?
Hey! Can I ask what’s this template you are using in your blog? thanks.