God: Natural or Supernatural
Genesis 1:31
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”
C.S. Lewis suggested that those who deny the supernatural can still believe in a god of sorts. He said:
The great interlocking event called Nature might be such as to produce at some stage a great cosmic consciousness, an indwelling 'God' arising from the whole process as human mind arises (according to the Naturalists) from human organisms.... What Naturalism cannot accept is the idea of a God who stands outside Nature and made it.
One Christian evolutionist has maintained that Christians who are scientists do not mention God in their research papers, because there is a long-standing tradition against partiality in science. It follows that his scientific research does not start from God, and does not start from the Bible.
While he maintains this as a virtue, it suggests to his readers that nature is all that there is; there is nothing outside of science that science cannot, or will not one day be able, to explain. Yet he believes in God, and is a member of a Bible-believing church. This gives the impression that faith is a bolt-on. It is not part of reality. Therefore, the god who is implied is not the supernatural God of the Bible, despite the claims of such people that this is the God in whom they believe. Instead, the impression is given that nature is all that there is, so God must be a natural god arising out of creation.
This is why the first few words of the Bible are so important. “In the beginning, God created...” gives the correct context for everything else that we read in the 66 books.
Prayer: You put everything in place, Lord God. You created it all from nothing. We praise You that only in You can everything be understood in its place. Amen.
Ref: Lewis, C.S. (1947), Miracles, (New York: Macmillan Collins), p12.
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