{"id":29517,"date":"2013-12-04T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29517"},"modified":"2013-12-04T09:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:27:48","slug":"creation-is-evidence-of-gods-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/creation-is-evidence-of-gods-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation is evidence of God&#8217;s existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Paul-Walker-on-creation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29518 alignleft\" alt=\"Paul Walker on creation\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Paul-Walker-on-creation-300x165.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Paul-Walker-on-creation-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Paul-Walker-on-creation.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hear what to selections of Scripture say that echo Paul Walker&#8217;s statement,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?\u201d (Psalm 8)<\/p>\n<p>For what can be known about God\u00a0is perfectly plain to them, since\u00a0God has made it plain to them: ever since the creation\u00a0of the world, the invisible existence of\u00a0God and his everlasting power have been clearly seen by the mind&#8217;s understanding of created things. (Romans 1: 19-20)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pope Benedict said the following about the place of images (created things) in Christian faith:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But since God has now been seen in the flesh and lived among men, I represent that part of God which is visible. I do not venerate matter, but the Creator of matter, who became matter for my sake and deigned to live in matter and bring about my salvation through matter. I will not cease therefore to venerate that matter through which my salvation was achieved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear what to selections of Scripture say that echo Paul Walker&#8217;s statement, \u201cWhen I see the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?\u201d (Psalm 8) For what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/creation-is-evidence-of-gods-existence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creation is evidence of God&#8217;s existence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[2782,1805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29521,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517\/revisions\/29521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}