Take this Naturalism!

I have always wanted to feel that nature was not just a machine. I never could be satisfied with the whole idea that stars are gas and rainbows are light and water. These are great and interesting facts, but if we have limited their substance to mater, then nature looses its wonder. And as soon as wonder is gone so is religion. (is that too far? I don't think so, but we can leave that for another time)

So, then I was walking and realized how interconnected nature, humans and God are. First of all, nature reflects the God's divine nature (Rom. 1:20). And then we are made in God's image. Therefore it must be that there is some connection between us and nature, because we are both reflections of God.




"They who believe in the influences of the stars over the fates of men, are, in feeling at least, nearer the truth than they who regard the heavenly bodies as related to them merely by a common obedience to an external law. All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already imbodied. The blank, which is only a forgotten life, lying behind the consciousness, and the misty splendour, which is an undeveloped life, lying before it, may be full of mysterious revelations of other connexions with the worlds around us, than those of science and poetry. No shining belt or gleaming moon, no red and green glory in a self-encircling twin-star, but has a relation with the hidden things of a man's soul, and, it may be, with the secret history of his body as well. They are portions of the living house wherein he abides."