I Am A Neonaturalist (Part 2)

Yes, I am a creature. How was I created? By direct creation or through revolution, designed and under the direction by the Divine Power? We must assume that our origin has a cause.

Let us be sincere and honest. We must recognize, rather than believe, the facts we are actually aware of and relate those facts to the Divine Power through observations, analysis and logical reasoning based on the assumed fact that this Divine Power is almost all-knowing and all-powerful. Accepting these attributes of the Divine Being, we must be consistent throughout our analyses; and we have to push off our thoughts any concept which defies these attributes.

Now let us begin to analyze, step by step. First, we have accepted that we have origin and we were not the ones who created us, nor did our ancestors create themselves. Whether or not we have been given life through direct creation or through evolution under the Creator’s direction, we were unaware of it.

Considering the assumed facts of the attributes possessed by the Divine Power we have accepted, we are willing to embrace the belief that this Divine Power must be our Creator; and since He is the cause, source and origin of all inanimate and animate beings, He must be the author of all unwritten, yet self-executory laws under the operations of which the forces throughout the universe function. Under its objective studies, science calls nature all the forces at work throughout the uni-verse; and the elements of nature, according to science, are humans, mountains, rivers, et cetera.

As a neonaturalist, I leap from the objective studies of science to the mysterious origin or creation of nature and its function. After careful analysis and logical reasoning, based on the assumed fact that the Divine Power or Creator is almost omniscient and omnipotent (omnipresence is inherent in the two attributes just mentioned), I assume that the forces of nature only function under the operations of the Creator’s unwritten divine laws.

There are chapters in the Bible which are relevant to the belief in the Creator or God. For example in Genesis, chapters 1 and 2, it says that God is the creator of the stars, humans, rivers – and all things. Nature in included in the phrase “all things.” Therefore, God, as Creator, is the sole ruler of the universe; and everything is placed under the operations of His unwritten, self-executory laws.

Making it easier for Him to rule, the Creator has designed every inanimate or animate being and implanted in each the law of perpetuation for His design and pattern to continue, including the instinctive obedience to His unwritten laws to make possible His means of control over His creatures. It is why every animal, young or old, when its time comes it instinctively complies with the absolute law of death, as example of is control.

Speaking honestly of the Creator and of the attributes which logically befit Him, every honest and truthful man accepts that he understands God only through his imagination. Hence, it is demanded of him to be strictly honest and be very careful in his approach, using his keen observation, analysis and sound reasoning based on known facts and upon the manifestations of the operations of the unwritten, self-executory laws. Queer people who call themselves believers in God yet impliedly repudiates the Divine Power as Creator, call God’s unwritten laws “the universal laws” and they also impliedly assume that nature is self-existing. Neonaturalism claims that only the Creator or God who is self-existing.

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