7.08.2005

of the creation which God created

I discussed this once before, but it came up again today in Ps114. You have the looking sea, turning Jordan, and skipping mountains. In Luke19 you have the stones potentially crying out.

It is much, much easier to read them as metaphors and figures of speech. It is a step of faith to take Him at His word and understand that objects, things can be anthropomorphic and do things like make sound. That's proven at the molecular level where they vibrate and move. They are alive at some level we do not understand. So when He says the stones would cry out, He literally means it.

It makes absolute sense from the theological level. At the fall, it was not just man who fell, but all of creation. The NT speaks of a fallen creation. In Rom8, Paul discusses creation breaking itself free from slavery along with all of mankind. I've read it stated that a possible explanation of natural disasters is that creation is fallen -- in which case it can sin like man and disobey.

The natural order of miracles, the manipulation of the physical world is not simply a changing of the natural order. The natural order of all things, man and earth included: He commands, and they obey.

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