Really cool article

[shackdaddy836]

Don’t know if this is the place to put this (I’m new ), but I was just messing around the internet today and I stumbled upon this article. You guys can ignore the title but it basically lists six things that relate Christianity with the world around us. I especially liked the point about water because it’s just such a simple thing that I never thought about before.

Hope you all enjoy it

everystudent.com/features/isthere.html

 

[Hokomai]

Don’t know if this is the place to put this (I’m new ), but I was just messing around the internet today and I stumbled upon this article. You guys can ignore the title but it basically lists six things that relate Christianity with the world around us. I especially liked the point about water because it’s just such a simple thing that I never thought about before.

Hope you all enjoy it

everystudent.com/features/isthere.html

I found the water point the least impressive. It merely describes water. It does not in anyway indicate why a god(s) is required to explain water.

 

[David_Alexander]

Thank you for posting the article, it’s always pleasing to see people feeling the presence of God so passionately in the wonders around us.

 

[JNdoum]

I found the water point the least impressive. It merely describes water. It does not in anyway indicate why a god(s) is required to explain water.

It would be harder to understand without a background of faith, but the explaination is in the wonder. The clarity and precision, the deatail, how it all works out perfectly. The Christian vision of the world is a vivid one. We see the things around us, and marvel at how beautiful and complex they are. We see the deatail, down to the tiniest atom, to the gluons and protons and such, and we marvel at it. We see it and think, "This couldn’t have just happened! It’s too perfect, it balances to well. It can’t be a random accident or happenstance of chance or fortune. Someone must have planned and designed this. I can see this very well in the properties of water. But perhaps that’s not Christians in general, but just scientists and artists like me.

 

[Hokomai]

I can see how this sort of experience will be interpreted in religious way by religious people. Others also have this sense of wonder and amazement at the natural world - you can see it reflected int he writing of many non-believers. Perhaps we need a word for this experience so we can discuss it more easily. Thanks for sharing.

 

[shackdaddy836]

Well, you need to know all the amazing aspects of water for it to kinda blow your mind. Its truly the most perfect substance in the universe.

-Without it we life couldn’t go on.
-We need to constantly use it to hydrate our organs
-Crops require it to grow
-Like the article said, water is extremely unique in that when it freezes, it expands. This motonly creates snow when it’s cold, but without it, fish that live in lakes and rivers would die out.
-water has a natural cycle which not only goves us a constant supply, but also acts as a natural purification process.
-And all this for a substance that, in its pure form, is colorless, odorless, and non-acidic