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2007-10-27 23:37:07 · 13 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you have a beautiful child, and that child draws with a pencil a simple drawing of a nature scene, would you think that this drawing was equal to the reality of your living child? I hope not.
God is the One Uncaused Cause of all perfect infinite eternal absolute Reality. Nature, as we perceive it down here on earth, is finite, (not infinite) changing, (not absolute) temporal (not eternal) and partial to Infinite Reality.
Here is a related selection from our current Epochal Revelation of Truth. Freely share if you wish as this revelation is fully in the public domain. [my brief explanations are added in these square beackets]
"GOD AND NATURE"
"Nature is in a limited sense the physical habit of God. The conduct, or action, of God is qualified and provisionally modified by the experimental plans and the evolutionary patterns of a local universe, a constellation, a system, or a planet. [seven trillion human inhabited planets in just this grand universe age of about one trillion years; it is about 2/3 finished and not yet perfect.] God acts in accordance with a well-defined, unchanging, immutable law throughout the wide-spreading master universe; [much larger and longer than the small grand universe age inside of the master universe which is inside the absolute and infinite universe in potential and actual] but he modifies the patterns of his action so as to contribute to the co-ordinate and balanced conduct of each universe, constellation, system, planet, and personality in accordance with the local objects, aims, and plans of the finite projects of evolutionary unfolding.
Therefore, nature, as mortal man understands it, presents the underlying foundation and fundamental background of a changeless Deity and his immutable laws, modified by, fluctuating because of, and experiencing upheavals through, the working of the local plans, purposes, patterns, and conditions which have been inaugurated and are being carried out by the local universe, constellation, system, and planetary forces and personalities. For example: As God's laws have been ordained in [your local universe], they are modified by the plans established by the Creator Son [our Sovereign Creator Father-Son Jesus Christ] and Creative [Holy] Spirit of this local universe; and in addition to all this the operation of these laws has been further influenced by the errors, defaults, and insurrections of certain [very lesser, fallen sons of God, such as Lucifer, Satan and some fallen of their subordinates] beings resident upon your planet and belonging to your immediate planetary system ...
Nature is a time-space resultant of two cosmic factors: first, the immutability, perfection, and rectitude of Paradise Deity, and second, the experimental plans, executive blunders, insurrectionary errors, incompleteness of development, and imperfection of wisdom of the extra-Paradise creatures, from the highest to the lowest. Nature therefore carries a uniform, unchanging, majestic, and marvelous thread of perfection from the circle of eternity; but in each universe, on each planet, and in each individual life, this nature is modified, qualified, and perchance marred by the acts, the mistakes, and the disloyalties of the creatures of the evolutionary systems and universes; and therefore must nature ever be of a changing mood, whimsical withal, though stable underneath, and varied in accordance with the operating procedures of a local universe.
Nature is the perfection of Paradise divided by the incompletion, evil, and sin of the unfinished universes. This quotient is thus expressive of both the perfect and the partial, of both the eternal and the temporal. Continuing evolution modifies nature by augmenting the content of Paradise perfection and by diminishing the content of the evil, error, and disharmony of relative reality.
God is not personally present in nature or in any of the forces of nature, for the phenomenon of nature is the superimposition of the imperfections of progressive evolution and, sometimes, the consequences of insurrectionary rebellion, upon the Paradise foundations of God's universal law. As it appears on such a world as [Earth], nature can never be the adequate expression, the true representation, the faithful portrayal, of an all-wise and infinite God.
Nature, on your world, is a qualification of the laws of perfection by the evolutionary plans of the local universe. What a travesty to worship nature because it is in a limited, qualified sense pervaded by God; because it is a phase of the universal and, therefore, divine power ! Nature also is a manifestation of the unfinished, the incomplete, the imperfect outworkings of the development, growth, and progress of a universe experiment in cosmic evolution.
The apparent defects of the natural world are not indicative of any such corresponding defects in the character of God. Rather are such observed imperfections merely the inevitable stop-moments in the exhibition of the ever-moving reel of infinity picturization. It is these very defect-interruptions of perfection-continuity which make it possible for the finite mind of material man to catch a fleeting glimpse of divine reality in time and space. The material manifestations of divinity appear defective to the evolutionary mind of man only because mortal man persists in viewing the phenomena of nature through natural eyes, human vision unaided by [intermediate, soul level super-philosophical wisdom] or by revelation, its compensatory substitute on the worlds of time.
And nature is marred, her beautiful face is scarred, her features are seared, by the rebellion, the misconduct, the misthinking of the myriads of creatures who are a part of nature, but who have contributed to her disfigurement in time. No, nature is not God. Nature is not an object of worship."
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2007-10-29 03:43:27 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi Third P.
I do not see God and nature as the same. However, I cannot look at nature without seeing God; for God created nature.
Everything beautiful & natural in this world comes from God — the trees & flowers & grass; the birds & creatures; the sky, clouds & sun, even the rain. These are all creations of God.
So, looking at nature, I see God. In that sense they are the same, but only in the sense that God created nature.
Peace.
2007-10-28 01:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by palemalefriend 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nature is the creative works of God that are governed by his laws he has set forth. We also refer to the great outdoors in general as nature but still it is the creative works of God governed by his laws that he has applied to each thing within it's time and season. God is real as his creative works and too has set laws that even he will not break. Jehovah and nature are indeed different but all that is natural falls into the creative works of Jehovah.
2016-04-10 22:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is our concept of the energy form we came from.
Nature is our concept of the order of life on Earth and the known universe.
We are God and we are currently subject to the natural order created by the energy we came from. So really, it is all the same.
2007-10-28 00:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The relationship between the God postulated by the theology of Jean Calvin and the idea of nature postulated in Darwin's conception of nature is absolutely uncanny.
2007-10-28 01:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question... quite close to my own thoughts.
Even if I presume there is a God who created Mother Nature, it is obvious that He has invested Her with great inviolable principles........ on the one hand, He obviously never chooses to violate them Himself and on the other hand, these principles make Her all powerful and consistent in Her own right....... these two factors make them the same Governing Boss for all practical purposes.
I hope I have been able to explain my logic.
2007-10-27 23:48:38 · answer #6 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is the creator he made the thing that he loved most and the shared them with man kind and other intelligent beings of the universe
2007-10-28 05:25:37 · answer #7 · answered by edward_church2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nature is only the name for an effect whose cause is God.
2007-10-27 23:44:31 · answer #8 · answered by Ayo A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when I see the marvelous creations in nature, I do think of God and how beautiful he has made our world.
2007-10-27 23:40:05 · answer #9 · answered by cheri h 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not view them as the same I view them as
the creator and his creation.
:)
2007-10-27 23:39:47 · answer #10 · answered by Wicked Aliens 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are synonymous since God can be referred colloquially as "all that is".
2007-10-28 00:36:36 · answer #11 · answered by PS Drummer 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋