Yes, I know, it’s usually Christmas-time when I post this–My Love’s an Arbutus, sung by the Fairhaven Singers. I won’t try to get you to believe it’s a hymn. But I find it reminds me that a loving God is Lord of all creation.
Tag: God the Creator
‘Honor God’s Word’ (2015)
(No, I do not know why this picture came out so small!)
If I had to point to one unique quality that describes this age we’re living in, I’d have to say it’s the appalling speed at which new idiocies are first coined, then adopted, and then enforced. If you don’t like people’s core beliefs now, just wait a few hours… and they’ll change.
Yes, I know I last posted this in 2021, really not that long ago. But it’s only gotten truer since then. I shudder to think of what another year might bring.
One thing I’m sure of: if God were as fickle as we are, there’d be no certainty that the sun would still be here tomorrow.
‘What We Wouldn’t’ve Thought Of, But God Did’ (2015)
If we humans had been given the job of creating the earth and filling it with life… would it have turned out well? [three-minute break for incredulous laughter]
Happily for all concerned, that was God’s work, not ours.
Really–how does an appreciation for natural beauty contribute to Evolution? We see the same blue sky and white clouds that a chameleon sees from his perch on a bush. But are we both truly seeing the same thing?
I doubt it!
My View of Evolution Has Evolved
Oh, that Golden Treasury of Natural History! I couldn’t get enough of it. Dinosaurs and woolly mammoths! By the time I was in third grade, they used to have me visit the other classrooms and give a little talk on dinosaurs. “Just like listening to a professor at college!” the school secretary once said.
At a very early age I already had an unquestioning belief in Evolution, whatever it was. Why not? Nobody questioned Evolution! Darwin wins, hands down. We started out as parameciums or something and wound up with Mozart. All the books said so.
But the Bible did not say so. And yet, like the rest of America, I toodled off to Sunday school or church on Sunday morning and never suspected there would be even the slightest flaw in my belief system. We were all Christians, weren’t we? (I was including Jews.) I was just a kid, but I never heard an adult question Evolution.
But I’m afraid my beliefs have evolved since then. I have lost my faith in Evolution.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. That’s the first sentence in the Bible. Everything follows from it. I mean, if you literally start quibbling with it from the get-go, how far are you going to get with the rest of it?
God did not leave us blueprints, recipes, or a here’s-how-you-do-it manual. He’s left us with plenty to find out on our own. We’ll have plenty to study in the sweet by and by.
Either God is the Almighty, the Creator, and the ultimate supreme Authority, or He is not. And if He is not, then who is?
I don’t like any of the answers proposed to that question. God protect us from all-devouring governments. God save us from the know-it-alls.
I still love dinosaurs. God created them. We don’t have them here among us anymore, but God has the entire universe at His disposal.
And I don’t believe in Evolution anymore. The more I study the matter, the less sense it makes. All it does, in the long run, is leave us marooned on a truly barren desert island.
How Wrong Have I Been?
Someone (I suspect my Chalcedon mentor, Martin Selbrede) has sent me a book by Christiana Hale (Hail, Christ?)–Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy. I’ve already begun to read it. There is profound wisdom here–one might almost say “intimidating” wisdom.
I want to be a servant of the Lord; but my sins, my worries, my fears, and my inborn limitations hold me back. Lewis based his Ransom Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) on the medieval model of the universe, which our modern Science says is simply not true. I mean, how could anyone believe in that? But Truth goes way beyond just “facts.” So does C.S. Lewis.
The Truth is that God Himself, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Second Person of the Holy Trinity, came to be born–incarnated–here, on Earth; and died, and was resurrected, here. He did it to save us, to pay the ransom for our sins. And it’s simply not possible that He did this in vain.
I stand in awe of this. The material that I ignored as twaddle is really of critical importance. It’ll take me some time to understand this. I have to read more, pray more, study the Bible more, before I can write any more about it.
But we do have this: God’s Word never returns to Him unfulfilled. Never.
‘Morning Has Broken’
This hymn reminds us, oh, so gently, that every new day is a new creation from God’s hand. And we are drawn in the spirit to Eden, where God once walked.
Sung by Orla Fallon, Morning Has Broken.