I thought this was super interesting and artistic so I had to share it with you guys. In his book, Miracles, CS Lewis describes that just like us, Nature will be redeemed and restored to her original perfected state. CS Lewis explains this concept in a way that only he can. Check it out:
"Only Supernaturalists really see Nature. You must go a little away from her, and then turn round, and look back. Then at last the true landscape will become visible. You must have tasted, however briefly, the pure water from beyond the world before you can be distinctly conscious of the hot, salty tang of Nature's current. To treat her as God, or as Everything, is to lose the whole pith and pleasure of her. Come out, look back, and then you will see..... this astonishing cataract of bears, babies, and bananas: this immoderate deluge of atoms, orchids, oranges, cancers, canaries, fleas, gases, tornadoes and toads. How could you ever have thought this was the ultimate reality? How could you ever have thought that it was merely a stage-set for the moral drama of men and women? She is herself. Offer her neither worship nor contempt. Meet her and know her. If we are immortal, and if she is doomed (as the scientist tell us) to run down and die, we shall miss this half-shy and half-flamboyant creature, this ogress, this hoyden, this incorrigible fairy, this dumb witch. But the theologians tell us that she, like ourselves, is to be redeemed. The 'vanity' to which she was subjected was her disease, not her essence. She will be cured in character: not tamed (Heaven forbid) nor sterilized. We shall still be able to recognize our old enemy, friend, playfellow and foster-mother, so perfected as to be not less, but more, herself. And that will be a merry meeting." - CS Lewis
-TEvans
4 comments:
That's good stuff...after I read it 7 times.
I bet C.S. would have done well on the verbal part of the SAT...
hahaa, in regards to what Nolan wrote. Wow so much to take in. I'm not sure I totally get it. I would love to hear from someone who thinks they understand it or at least someones take on it. Hopefully it will help me.
wow, that is a great point that I can't believe I haven't thought of yet. We all see the people of the world and how flawed they are. We know that this world is temporary and we see things decaying all around us. This brings a whole new vision of the The Earth to me. All I have been thinking of is Jesus on the throne for 1000 years and being sin free. What do you think the scenery is going to be in that Earth? Perfect trees, mountains, flowers, and everything else that we just soak up when we get a chance to stop and take it all in.
That is what I get out of that blurb.
What I got from this was that Nature is in and of itself in its relationship to its Creator much in the same way as mankind. The earth and nature all around us is not just simply a setting where God's redemptive plan for mankind takes place. The earth and nature itself also fell under the curse of sin and is also going to be redeemed by God. Nature is not to be worshiped as all there is (Evolutionism and Naturalism) nor be spat upon and abused as some mistreated bondservant. The earth and nature are also characters in this great novel. The earth and nature as we see it is not who she really was created to be. She is plagued with the curse of sin but will one day be cured. We sometimes view this as the earth being cleaned up but the redemption of nature will be so much more than a simple cleaning. Like mankind, she will also be a new creation. However, this view of nature is only truly seen by those who can grasp this revealed Truth of God's redemptive plan for her. If you never step out and catch this view of her then your glimpse of her is misunderstood. I could sit and ponder the beauty and efficiency of a perfected earth all day and not even scratch the surface of what that New Earth is truly going to present. In simple words, Eternity is going to be awesome!
-TEvans
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