Nature Defined
Secular dictionaries choose to exclude mankind from nature. Earthworms and trees are natural. Eagles and rabbits are natural. How is it that human beings are unnatural?
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Excerpts of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
While composing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson undoubtedly had natural law in mind. I refer to Romans 2:14-16 — who show the work of the law written in their hearts. The Apostle Paul, the writer of this scripture, understood natural law as an innate sense of right and wrong ‘written in our hearts.’ In contemporary parlance, a sense of right and wrong is encoded in our DNA.
Again, the Apostle writes in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Romans 8:6 clearly differentiates between the natural man, whose nature follows his DNA, from the spiritual man who follows something else. We learn from Job 32:8, “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.”
Jesus, addressing his disciples in John 20:21-23, imparts two ideas.
First, God imparts his Spirit by breathing into us — Greek theopneustos, meaning ‘God-breathed.”
Second, Jesus commanded his disciples to receive the Spirit, indicating we have the choice to receive or reject God’s Holy Spirit. Men and women who receive Holy Spirit are transformed from natural to supernatural beings.
Scientific Facts
Humans are as natural as grasshoppers and whales. Contemporary idolators — climate alarmists, tyrants, and oligarchs who believe they are gods — view subordinate humans as the enemies of the Earth, vermin to be exterminated. These idolators promote homosexuality that cannot reproduce and the abortions of defenseless babies to minimize the threat to their ‘Mother Earth.’
Nature’s God intelligently designed the Earth and the entire universe to remain functioning until the Designer decides to scrap his designs and build something. The facts of intelligent design move highly-educated, intelligent scientists to come to this understanding of intelligent design.
Hear the testimonies of genuine scientists from a broad range of disciplines describe their observations of intelligent design in a video titled Scientists Speak Out About Evidence of Intelligent Design in Nature.
Physical and scholastic evidence of intelligent design is demonstrated by the natural cycles we experience daily: the Carbon Cycle, the Water Cycle, the Matter and Energy Cycles, and all Laws of Physics.
Over the years of my commercial flights, I would view the earth from 30,000 to 40,000 feet. Superhighways are visible as thin threads. The greatest cities, major rivers, and the Grand Canyon are easily distinguishable, but not once, not even ONE time, have I seen a human from those heights. Keep in mind no airliner flies higher than the troposphere.
Our Founding Fathers, the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, subscribed to a broad worldview of nature different from the microcephalic worldview of many contemporary leaders.
Conclusion
Choices. One can choose the myopic worldview of false prophets like John Kerry, Al Gore, and Greta Thunberg. Or, you can choose a worldview on the scale of the universe. The view of things on Earth from a Biblical viewpoint yields peace and confidence in our Creator.
Invitation
Join our Lanterns of Hope Life Group Saturday evenings, 7:00 to 8:15 pm, in room W304 of the Lakepointe Church Rockwall Campus. Learn more: Lanterns of Hope Life Group — Lakepointe Church
John White
Rockwall, Texas
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