God created Eve, and man created the Mona Lisa. Although man created the Mona Lisa, and can create more such paintings, man could not create Eve and the billions of people that followed. It is God that creates life, even those that started in a test tube.
Whatever man does can be readily explained, but whatever God does cannot be, at least in terms of how He does things. Any occurrence for which there is no explanation is an act of God, which, to us who believe in Him, is a miracle.
What is a miracle? Dictionary.com defines a miracle as “an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.” For us, the “supernatural cause” is God.
The Bible tells us that God created the heaven and the earth, and He created Adam and Eve and all other life. These things were created by the force of His Will. And Colossians 1:17 tells us, “…He is before all things, and in him all things hold together…” So anything that man creates is a consequence of what God has created.
So we have the Mona Lisa. Was it a miracle that the Mona Lisa was painted? The painting itself was not a miracle, because we know that a person painted it. God has enabled us to seek out our own understanding of things. Ecclesiastes 1:13 says, “And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.” So, our understanding tells us that the hand of Leonardo da Vinci created the Mona Lisa.
And how did he create it? He created it with his knowledge of paints and painting, and of the physical presence of the woman he painted, and with associating her presence with his knowledge of paints and painting. How did he acquire this knowledge? It wasn’t just simply put into his head, he seeked it out himself. And why not, since we have been created with a free will, and the Bible tells us, by passages like Ecclesiastes 1:13, that such endeavors are not sinful.
Who created Leonardo da Vinci? It wasn’t man that did it, it was God. Man can try all they want to create life, but God determines whether man’s efforts will be fruitful. Because God created da Vinci, that would rightfully be regarded as a miracle because it was something God had done.
Man, in seeking out knowledge, as come to learn many things in this world, including cause and effect, and has used that cause and effect to create things. The Mona Lisa was caused by paint on a canvas. The paint came from da Vinci. Da Vinci knew that if he puts paint on a canvas, it would result in paintings like the Mona Lisa.
Much of what we know about the natural world comes from a thing called science, but science has its limits. Science can enable us to predict the weather, but science has yet to enable us to create the weather. Because we have yet to create the weather, the weather has been created by God, which is a miracle. Perhaps someday, man CAN create the weather. But until man does, it is understood that God creates the weather, as God comes before everything else. But all the knowledge that man has, will never enable him to create life himself, for it is God that creates all life, any time, any place. And in that regard, science and art has its limits.
Whatever man does can be readily explained, but whatever God does cannot be, at least in terms of how He does things. Any occurrence for which there is no explanation is an act of God, which, to us who believe in Him, is a miracle.
What is a miracle? Dictionary.com defines a miracle as “an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.” For us, the “supernatural cause” is God.
The Bible tells us that God created the heaven and the earth, and He created Adam and Eve and all other life. These things were created by the force of His Will. And Colossians 1:17 tells us, “…He is before all things, and in him all things hold together…” So anything that man creates is a consequence of what God has created.
So we have the Mona Lisa. Was it a miracle that the Mona Lisa was painted? The painting itself was not a miracle, because we know that a person painted it. God has enabled us to seek out our own understanding of things. Ecclesiastes 1:13 says, “And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.” So, our understanding tells us that the hand of Leonardo da Vinci created the Mona Lisa.
And how did he create it? He created it with his knowledge of paints and painting, and of the physical presence of the woman he painted, and with associating her presence with his knowledge of paints and painting. How did he acquire this knowledge? It wasn’t just simply put into his head, he seeked it out himself. And why not, since we have been created with a free will, and the Bible tells us, by passages like Ecclesiastes 1:13, that such endeavors are not sinful.
Who created Leonardo da Vinci? It wasn’t man that did it, it was God. Man can try all they want to create life, but God determines whether man’s efforts will be fruitful. Because God created da Vinci, that would rightfully be regarded as a miracle because it was something God had done.
Man, in seeking out knowledge, as come to learn many things in this world, including cause and effect, and has used that cause and effect to create things. The Mona Lisa was caused by paint on a canvas. The paint came from da Vinci. Da Vinci knew that if he puts paint on a canvas, it would result in paintings like the Mona Lisa.
Much of what we know about the natural world comes from a thing called science, but science has its limits. Science can enable us to predict the weather, but science has yet to enable us to create the weather. Because we have yet to create the weather, the weather has been created by God, which is a miracle. Perhaps someday, man CAN create the weather. But until man does, it is understood that God creates the weather, as God comes before everything else. But all the knowledge that man has, will never enable him to create life himself, for it is God that creates all life, any time, any place. And in that regard, science and art has its limits.
