Posted on 04/10/2012 2:26:50 PM PDT by NYer
"Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing." - Isaiah 40:25, 26
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Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
Okay....am I supposed to run out and buy his book to confirm what I already know is true?
Finally. Now can we get on with things?
That is beautiful and frightening at once. How could anyone see that and read the scripture and not believe?
To me, more subtle things, like a hummingbird, an orb-weaver spider, a homing pigeon, a hammer orchid, ... exhibit stronger manifestations of His creativity.
The US Debt after four more years of Democrats.
Which Scripture...does it matter if I read a Christian Bible, the Torah, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Bhagavad Gita??? or heaven forbid(all puns intended) the Koran (not particularly interested in that backward hate filled tome...)
point being, I see devinity in the Universe through these pictures and our beautiful planet...not so much from one particular set of scriptures...
In his Easter homily, Pope Benedict XVI addresses this concept of the heavens declaring the glory of God. He said:
The darkness that poses a real threat to mankind, after all, is the fact that he can see and investigate tangible material things, but cannot see where the world is going or whence it comes, where our own life is going, what is good and what is evil. The darkness enshrouding God and obscuring values is the real threat to our existence and to the world in general. If God and moral values, the difference between good and evil, remain in darkness, then all other “lights”, that put such incredible technical feats within our reach, are not only progress but also dangers that put us and the world at risk. Today we can illuminate our cities so brightly that the stars of the sky are no longer visible. Is this not an image of the problems caused by our version of enlightenment?
In one of my favorite books ...
a young American, Benedictine monk, travels to Egypt to study monastic life in the Coptic monasteries, as part of his anthropology project. The book provides insight into a deeply spiritual pilgrimage and the profound impact it had on one man's life. Being in the desert, Fr. Gruber looks up into the sky and experiences what the OT Patriarchs felt, seeing the myriad stars. I would recommend this book to everyone. It is so addictive that I have read it several times, learning something new on each reading.
“I see devinity in the Universe through these pictures and our beautiful planet...not so much from one particular set of scriptures... “
Ditto, the Universe is my “scripture”
If that is so, then the Bagavad Gita is your book. In Hinduism the universe is god, as are you. All is illusory in hinduism. It is an internally incoherent worldview, and given that all of astrophysics, the second law of thermodynamics, Kaalams argument, the impossibility of an actual infinite, the moral law, and the absurdity that the universe created itself all testify to a beginning. In Hinduism (devine universe) the universe is eternal. This does not square with science or Biblical Truth. You might consider a more careful assessment of the devine.
I might actually be impressed if the scroll specified the value of the cosmological constant.
” the only constant in the universe is change” Asimov
Or the spiral shape and rotation of a hurricane, the Milky Way galaxy, and the perfect tube of Pipeline.
“The concept is nuncupatory”
—Jack Vance
Freegards
when his buddy Rick would try to get him to go to church he politely refuse....next panel would be Hipshot ‘in church’
it was a regularly repeated thing....here is one example.
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