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Likewise, I am convinced that nature may be understood as God's "primer"... .a first edition, prologue text of a magnificent and dramatically unfolding story, a story that beckons to every human heart and soul from God's created "pages" of space and time. If the 12th century Scottish Christian mystic, Richard of St. Victor, was right... ( and I believe he was)... that, "The whole of this sensible world is like a book written by the finger of God", then perhaps we ought to earnestly seek knowledge of this world's Author and Creator not only through "the word" of this His visible revelation of nature (what theologians call "general revelation"), but also seek him in the verbally communicated revelation of Holy Scripture, "special revelation",....His prophetic, spoken Word. I am persuaded that we are daily being invited to "read" beyond this awesomely written Divine Prologue of Nature and to press on to know the "rest of the story".... the greatest story ever told. It is my prayer that these drawings may prompt in the viewer a desire to examine more closely the undeniably sublime and glorious Beauty of nature, and in the process discover so much more.......
(John 1: 1,2.... 14) |
omeone
once said that the natural universe, the creation around us is ".. .a kind
of corporeal and visible Gospel." I believe that is true. Nearly 2000 years
ago the Apostle Paul wrote, "For since the creation of the world God's
invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly
seen, being understood from
what has been made
so that men are without excuse. "
(Romans 1: 20)