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God's Creation Dec 29 2007
"God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good." - Genesis 1:31
Isn't God's creation a wonder to behold? I'm always amazed when I watch the Discovery Channel or a National Geographic special on an in-depth study of an animal I've rarely seen, gaining insight about what makes them unique and how they survive.
Even though God is rarely--if ever--mentioned on these shows, it causes my faith to soar, for I'm reminded that God thought of everything, every little detail in creating this living thing. Everywhere you turn in creation, there's evidence of intelligent design--the work of the Master Artist.
Let me ask you something: When you see a great painting...DaVinci's Mona Lisa, a piece by Van Gogh, or a scene of American life by Norman Rockwell, do you have more awe of the piece of art than of the artist? Not likely. Yet we do this all the time with God's creation. If we honor the creation and forsake the Creator, we miss everything. The best way to appreciate creation is to know and appreciate the Creator.
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Yes, report it NevermindYou are so very right. If everyone would just take a moment and take in the beauty and wonder of God's creations. I thank him everyday when I see somthing that I had not noticed previously. When everything works in perfect harmony, it is beyond me why anyone would deny the existance of the Master Creator.
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Yes, report it NevermindIt is interesting that you bring up artists with God's creation.
Artists' works are identified by appraisers by the style and patterns found in the piece. The "Footprints" in the work help identify a work as being a Renoir and not a Picasso. (A lot of Picasso's work was not abstract.)
God's work is much the same. Things that are similar from animal to animal - even in animals that don't seem to be very similar ... have similarities as breathing, flowing bodily fluids or blood, sub-structures in types of animals have similarities. An octopus has eyes, for example, one of the most complicated of body features. All are the footprints of the master creator.
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Yes, report it NevermindLiving in MEXICO this past year has brought to mind all the beauty around the world in God's creation. I am from Michigan and living where I can walk out the door and see mountains, flowers of all different colors and a different mix of people has made me appreciate creation even more and deepened my faith in the Father of all Creation.
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Yes, report it NevermindWhy does God get all the credit though and none of the blame?
It seems that everything that is beautiful is part of God's marvelous handiwork, while what is ugly is always the consequence of sin. I assume the same God that designed puppies and giraffes also designed leeches and leprosy. Anybody ever encountered the designer's fabulous Ichneumon wasp? It lays its eggs in the bodies of other living insects. The larvae eat their way out while the host insect suffers a long gruesome death. Do we want to call this part of the design? No wait- let me guess- everything was happy harmless and vegetarian before the Fall. Yeah right, that's the ticket.
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Yes, report it NevermindErik, how bitter and angry you are. I choose to see the beauty in all things and circumstances, and yes there is beauty in the ugly of life, You, however, want and seem to desire to see only ugly and emptiness in life. I am praying that you will turn to the Lord and that he will heal you. I have had to live the ugly, and it will destroy you if you let it.
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Yes, report it NevermindErik,you make it clear what you don't believe - so what DO you believe? You have to have a lot of faith for whatever you decide.
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Yes, report it NevermindJan- I'm not saying we should focus on the ugliness in the world. The point I took from the devotion is that God is some sort of perfect designer, a "Master Artist." Yet some of his art is pretty ugly. So what do we do with that? Praise Him? Condemn Him? You tell me.
It's so easy to peddle a kind of warm and fuzzy, soft-focus, Hallmark image of God as this fantastically wise and benign Creator, when the reality is that much of the creation is brutal, stupid, and ugly.
Austin- I am not sure I understand your question. I don't know who or what God is or if He even exists, but I do know that nobody else has the answer either, and that the claims of the evangelicals in particular are pretty ludicrous.