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God speaks.
That's Him in the crashing waves and in Beethoven's 5th. The cheering crowd and the soaring descant-it's Him you hear. He speaks in the gentle brush of autumn leaves on pavement, through the laughing child. And that's Him in the clamor of congested city streets, in the slurred conversation at a dingy bar. Through the fingers of the guitarist who denies Him, and in the words of the actor who curses His Name, God speaks.
Are you listening? (H. Marie Jordan)
posted by Prometheus Publications at 8:01 PM
5 Comments:
It's wonderful to see that people have not forgoten the miracle of God's creation, and the vast artistic value it has!
Your article seems to have some of the same tones as those cloaked monks's theories and criticism. It has a clear, direct purpose and it doesn't get jumbled up with excess words and confusing paragraph structures. In all, it is a good read.
I learned in my Religion 110, Christian Faith class that this type of natural revelation or glimpse of the hidden God falls in line with the numinous, and cosmological argument for the existence of God. We also learned that these are these are deceptive and misleading, because they won’t lead you to Christ, so we should be careful not to listen to them to closely. God communicates through his WORD and that’s why stuff happens, the written from takes precedence over all others – God would address us directly but its beyond our comprehension. So what your advocating by this article is weakening Christian’s faith by looking you smugly think is comprehensible. This is dangerous territory.
I disagree. We see the fact of God's existence from the natural world and what sort of God He is. Meditating on nature is not a bad thing or some type of "smug" special revelation, at all. The Bible itself, explains this.
For that which can be known about God [from everyday experience] is obvious to them, because God has made it obvious. His nature, though invisible, is nevertheless plainly apparent, and has been since His foundation of the world, for it may be clearly inferred from this creation of His – [this is true of] both His eternal power and His divinity – so that they are without any excuse. Romans 1:20
-eric z
The authority of God's Word is not at question here. What is at question is how some Christians dismiss the secular (e.g. secular music, R rated movies)as ungodly without seeing how God might be using these modes of art, and how, ultimately, anything that is beautiful in them is His gift to mankind.
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