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True Knowledge of God
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Nature Is Not God
God’s handiwork in nature is not God Himself in nature. The
things of nature are an expression of God’s character and power,
but we are not to regard nature as God. The artistic skill of human
beings produces very beautiful workmanship, things that delight
the eye. These things reveal to us something of the thought of the
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designer, but the thing made is not the maker. It is not the work, but
the workman, that is counted worthy of honor. So, while nature is
an expression of God’s thought, God, not nature, is to be exalted.
“Let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”
“In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.”
Psalm 95:6, 4, 5.
“He made the Pleiades and Orion;
He turns the shadow of death into morning
And makes the day dark as night.”
“He who forms mountains, and creates the wind,
Who declares to man what His thought is,”
“He who builds His layers in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
The Lord is His name.”
Amos 5:8; 4:13; 9:6.
The Creation of the Earth
The work of creation cannot be explained by science. What
science is there that can explain the mystery of life?
“By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word
of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things
which are visible.”
Hebrews 11:3
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