Here's a look inside my brain:
What most people see: What I'm thinking about:
The clock... and the hands are turning The gears...
They are somehow turning
SO.... today my Psych teacher went off on a little tangent... and I really liked what he had to say, so naturally, that is the thing running through my head today. It was a theory about how the laws of nature and the way we say things work may not be laws after all. Now just bear with me (and he's probably way better at explaining this than me). So he used the analogy of the clock... it's starts out the way that the deists use their clock analogy... God made this clock... he made it just how he wanted it to be... he wound it up... but instead of sitting back and watching it do what he made it to do like the deists think, he does all the work... he turns the gears... all of them... the little ones, big ones, and medium sized ones... he makes everything in that clock turn and does every little thing necessary to make it work. He puts each piece of dust on it... Everything that clock does is not done because of some set of laws, but because God does it. He just does it consistently the same way, every time. We can trust God to keep that clock working the way that it does, just as we trust the physical laws of the universe. God may not have just created the laws, but, instead, has just always done things the same way. We were talking about how a baby developes in the mother's body (because this is a life-span Psychology class) and he was explaining how each time, the baby developes this way... these things take place... and this is when they take place... but... what if they don't just do that? What if God is the one doing each of those things, every time... he doesn't just decide what the baby would be like and then let nature do it's work to create what he has planned... he gets in there and does it... divides each cell... forms each part. I mean... we can't fathom how big God is... and there is noone who can say that this is too much for God to handle. God could easily do all of these things, everything relating to science, as well as being intimately and personally a part of our everyday lives. He can do everything that makes this world go round as well be the reason our world goes round.... have a relationship with us... mold us emotionally, physically, mentally, etc. God's amazing. Now, it's very possible God created the laws of nature and has them there to help him do the work as he designs, plans, and works in each of our lives, but couldn't it also be true that God does everything? That he has simply chosen to do these things the same way each time, so as to create order? That's just some food for thought that I figured I'd pass on to you.. because I really like it... It brings a whole new meaning to "You created my inmost being... You knit me together in my mother's womb" (Psalm 139:13 NIV). Idk. I really just was blown away by this. Now, next time i talk to a deist, I will have something to say.
