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On nature,beauty and God

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere - Vincent van Gogh. I find this so true . But the creation and its exquisite design is by no means an accident. It's beauty and and wonder reflects the beauty and majesty of it's creator -God. Every single thing from the smallest to the biggest on close examination had a specific purpose. Each individual here on earth has a purpose and meaning, they all reflect the glory and wisdom of God. The smallest instance is the joy you derive just watching the sunset gives joy and glory to God it's creator. I see God everywhere in the sunrise and sunset, in the rivulets and seas and in the mountains and ranges and I feel Him in the wind and and breezes. For me therein lies the meaning of life. Existentialist says we have to create our own meaning to life but I find meaning in life itself.

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LadyGrace ·

When I see nature, the beautiful mountains, trees, animals, whatever, I see God's beautiful handiwork. It's unmistakable and amazing, all the intricate detail. God is creator of heaven and earth. Everything we see in nature has been carefully designed to the last detail and brought to life by God.

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teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@LadyGrace praise be to God for the beautiful creation.

teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@NerdyPotato Adam and Eve were responsible for fall of of creation when they ate the forbidden fruit and fell for Satan's temptation. Yet Jesus the Son of God came to redeem the world , that is why I say the love God is poured out to humanity and creation when Jesus died on that cross.

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DocSavage · M

@teachmetiger210503
Free will is useless without the knowledge to understand its consequences. It is necessary and the fall had to be planned in advance.

NerdyPotato · M

@teachmetiger210503 I see you've been in this thread since I shared my post again but haven't responded. Is that because you don't have an answer and it makes you uncomfortable?

LadyGrace ·

@teachmetiger210503 Yes, being that God is omniscient, just means that He can sees into the future, but does not make choices for us. I think that's where people get mixed up.

SW-User

Reality just is.

I think we must "touch base" ( i.e. become "nothing" ourselves, just as the ultimate source is "nothing", or "empty" - sunyata - "beyond thought", "ineffable" ,"unimaginable" ........) then we can once more embrace the world of opposites, of diversification. But now without being beguiled or led astray by concepts, definitions and conclusions.

It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.

Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.

"Auguries of Innocence” (William Blake)

Yes, meaning has to be found in life itself. Meaning is inherent to Reality.

"We are what we understand" (Dogen)

teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@SW-User words of wisdom my friend , looking forward for more discussion.

SW-User

@teachmetiger210503 See you around.

And wisdom is never "ours"........Thomas Merton caught the paradox in one of his letters, speaking of a small Christian sect, the Shakers:-

The Shakers remain as witnesses to the fact that only humility keeps us in communion with truth, and first of all with our own inner truth. This we must know without knowing it, as they did. For as soon as a we become aware of "our truth" we let go of it and embrace an illusion.

NerdyPotato · M

Don't forget about lions tearing apart zebras or fungi turning ants into zombies. You can't just single out the wholesome parts when claiming to love nature as a whole and praising its creator.

Richard65 · M

The fly, Apocephalus borealis, lays up to a dozen eggs in bee workers. Its grubs eventually eat the bees from the inside-out. And the infected workers abandon their hives to die. There are hundreds of species of Apocephalus flies, and they're best known for decapitating ants from the inside. Such beauty in nature...😒

teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@Richard65 It's not a perfect world I agree, the Bible tells us that we live in a fallen. Inspite of it all you can deny it's beauty. Like those bees we humans are vulnerable to death and circumstances of life, yet I still believe in the beauty of life.

Richard65 · M

@Richard65 you said the design is exquisite and it's no accident. So God created a fly that eats a bee from the inside. That's so horrific, why would God design such an insect? Why engineer such a painful, appalling death for a bee, which pollinates the earth's flora?

teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@Richard65 @Richard65 lol indeed. The fly has become the predator here, interesting humans too have diseases that eats them away ,signs of a fallen nature of creation. Inspite of it all I place all things in the infinite wisdom of God.

teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

@NerdyPotato Or you may mention the injustice that exists in the poor and the rich. But it's all in the infinite wisdom of God for the secret of joy lies not in the material wealth but in finding that immaterial hidden treasure God intends you to find.

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teachmetiger210503 · 36-40, M

It's a fallen world yet the love of God still stands for humanity and creation.

NerdyPotato · M

@teachmetiger210503 it didn't fall, he dropped it purposefully. Not my definition of love, but to each their own.

DocSavage · M

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