CMP Review 2024-10-25

October 25, 2024

“What do we see when we go outside and look at the world? Has it become so familiar to us that we pay no attention to it at all? Or perhaps when we look at the blue sky do we think of the refraction of light? When we notice the sun, do we think of a nuclear furnace? When we see a fox in a zoo, do we think of what we learned in biology class about its bones and organs? And beyond this, when we step back and view the world, how do we see it? Blue sky, green fields, brown earth, blue water — does this set of images mean anything at all, or is it ‘just the way things are’?”

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“Ultimately, all non-Christian philosophy assumes that the universe is untreated and made of neutral ‘Being.’ Such a universe is silent. For the Christian, however, the universe is created by God, and constantly speaks of Him…

“Let us return, for a moment, to the question we raised at the beginning of this chapter: Why this world with all this diversity? Why not just man and God, interfacing together, with man growing and developing from this interaction? I believe the answer to this, in part, lies in the fact that God is infinite and man is finite. We simply cannot grasp God’s infinite tri-personality all at once. For this reason, God chose to reveal the infinity of His personality in the diversity of this world. Various things in the world reveal various things about God. As we interface with these different things in the world, we are indirectly interfacing with God, who is revealed in them.”

— James B. Jordan, Through New Eyes

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