Nature and Jesus - how do they mesh?

[Bob Dixon]

forcing a woman to marry her rapist because it is God's holy work?

"Forcing a woman to marry her rapist" does not mean the same thing in a 21st-Century developed nation as it did back in the desert three-thousand years ago.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

How does nature fit into the overall Christian theology?

My view is that Nature is an agent of God's work, and so should be revered.

Every natural act is due to God, sometimes the positive side and sometimes the dark side.

However, we should aim towards the positive side as this is the intention of nature as can be witnessed through the lenses of biology and psychology.

Animals, plants and the planet are not there to be 'used' by man in a selfish way, but should be cherished as part of the grand plan.

Sometimes animals and humans give birth at a young age - this is because they have a high concentration of Essence - ie: life energy that is inserted into their DNA.

Life = Essence of God.

What does the believer or atheist have to say about this?

Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

Clearly Jesus is not a part of nature.

 

[nnmartin]

I never said he was.

Jesus is one of the conduits we can commune through in order to reach towards the Essence - the deistic Force that controls life and the Universe.

So Jesus does not need to lay his head anywhere, as He exists on another plane of reality.

But nature is created by God and therefore holds the physical proof we need of His existence, and so should be respected and obeyed.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

I never said he was.

Jesus is one of the conduits we can commune through in order to reach towards the Essence - the deistic Force that controls life and the Universe.

So Jesus does not need to lay his head anywhere, as He exists on another plane of reality.

But nature is created by God and therefore holds the physical proof we need of His existence, and so should be respected and obeyed.

If I say a rock was created by fairies, does that prove fairies exist?

 

[nnmartin]

someone or something must have created the rock - and someone must have created the something.

then all we need to is substitute the word fairies for God , and you have your answer.

 

[idav]

If I say a rock was created by fairies, does that prove fairies exist?

Hey I know rocks exist so thats half true. We also know that rocks evolved not created.

 

[nnmartin]

they may have evolved, but only because Nature allowed them to do so.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

they may have evolved, but only because Nature allowed them to do so.

Obviously, but you seem to be tacking on consciousness to the natural laws and processes that run the universe.