We see the pictures and yet fail to see them, for if we saw them rightly we would see the Creator too. We behave ourselves in this God-created world (if one may use the clumsy simile) like dogs in a great art gallery. Who has so made it that the hundred millions of rod and cone cells which together make sight possible, are so co-ordinated that they can give sight? Chance? What harebrained superstition! Truly, you do not behold man alone through the eye, but the Creator as well. Have you ever thought of how astounding a miracle is a seeing eye, the window of the soul? Yes, even more than a window one might even call the eye the soul itself gazing and visible. Yet in spite of this testimony man does not know Him, or at least not rightly.Įvery man has two hands each of which is a greater work of art than anything else that human ingenuity has created but men are so obsessed with their own doings that they acclaim every human creation and make a great display over it, yet fail to discern God's miraculous deeds. But this world is His creation, and whether conscious of it or not, it speaks of Him who made it. He does not permit himself to be seen for man cannot see God, only the world. For just as in a royal palace everything is royally administered, or as in a great artist's house the whole house testifies of the artist, even if he is not seen, so, too, the world is the house of the Great King and the Great Artist. It is not because of God that we do not know Him thus. But if! Do men know the Creator? Do they know what it means to say, God thou art my Creator? Everything else is involved in this one word. Indeed if one rightly understands that which the Bible means by the Creator, he has rightly understood the whole Bible. It is the primeval word, the fundamental word supporting everything else. But that is not simply the first word with which one begins in order to pass on to greater, more important matters. The first word of the Bible is the word about the Creator and creation. By Emil Brunner Chapter 4: Creation and The Creator
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