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1 | How to know God just from seeing nature? | Rom 1:20 | Sir Pent | 22327 | ||
Finding God in Nature, part 4 The third thing that I notice about nature is how complicated it is. From my studies in biology, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, and physics, I have seen how we humans have only begun to understand the complexities of the world around us. Yet it is not even neccessary to have this level of education. Just from experience of watching seasons change, flowers bloom, and children grow, one can clearly see the how much more intellegent the "Omnipotent, Eternal Power" must be than we humans. In fact, the more one learns about how the entire world is connected and interacts, the more impressed one becomes. Then, by extrapolating that to the entire universe, it becomes clear that the "Omnioptent, Eternal Power" must also be of practically infinite intellegence. Therefore, nature shows us that there is an "Omniscient, Omnipotent, Eternal Power". This brings us to an important point. Now that we have discovered these things from nature, we can now begin to call this "Omniscient, Omnipotent, Eternal Power", a being. The fact that there is that level of intellegence forces us to accept that this Power is a living persona. And being so much smarter, more powerful than humans, as well as breaking the laws of nature (by always existing) would cause us to classify this being as "supernatural". |
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2 | How to know God just from seeing nature? | Rom 1:20 | Makarios | 26416 | ||
Hello again Sir Pent! Yes, nature was "pleasing to the eye" of the Creator (Genesis 2:9) and was given a form of intelligence. Nature illustrates the Creator's greatness (Psalm 36:5-6, 77:16-18; Ezekiel 38:20)! All nature praises God (Psalm 69:34; 96:11-12; 148:1-14), and God owns nature (Psalm 50:9-12). Yet, God has entrusted nature to man (Psalm 115:16), since humans embodied a superior intelligence than that of the beasts and plants (Genesis 1:28), even though the beasts did possess a form of intelligence (Gen. 3:1). If man, in all his physical forms, possessed a "potential" or certain amount of intelligence when he was created (and now presently does as well), then who, rather than another intelligent being, could have given man his intelligence, or the potential for that intelligence? Another intelligent being had to give man his intelligence. And since we cannot gauge which man was the "most intelligent", we can conclude that all living beings do have a certain form or level of intelligence. However, with ALL of man's intelligence, man (who is the most intelligent being on earth), cannot fathom the complex creation or duplication of his own intelligence! Man cannot "impart" his intelligence to another thing or individual. Therefore, it had to be a "higher" intelligence or "supernatural" power that had to create that intelligence that was imparted to man. Blessings to you, Nolan |
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