Comments on: The Meaning of Natural Beauty http://wonderofcreation.org/2010/02/08/the-meaning-of-natural-beauty/ "Wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted." —Job 9:10 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:18:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dean Ohlman http://wonderofcreation.org/2010/02/08/the-meaning-of-natural-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Dean Ohlman Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:26:55 +0000 http://www.wonderofcreation.org/?p=5239#comment-624 I like the KJV better as well. "By His will" seems like a statement of the obvious. "For His pleasure" is loaded with implications that hail back to the earliest Scripture: the Book of Job, in which God speaks of all the wonders of the cosmos He created. I like the KJV better as well. “By His will” seems like a statement of the obvious. “For His pleasure” is loaded with implications that hail back to the earliest Scripture: the Book of Job, in which God speaks of all the wonders of the cosmos He created.

]]> By: rdrcomp http://wonderofcreation.org/2010/02/08/the-meaning-of-natural-beauty/comment-page-1/#comment-623 rdrcomp Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:33:49 +0000 http://www.wonderofcreation.org/?p=5239#comment-623 Dean, I agree that the meaning of natural beauty is that it shows God's divine nature. To me it also shows what God enjoys. Rev. 4:11 speaks of God creating for His good pleasure (KJV). (The modern translations say for His will He created, but that sounds too technical to me) I really believe God enjoys the beauty of His creation more even than we do. I love fly-fishing in a small NC mountain stream, clear as crystal, rushing over rocks and plunging down into pools. I say that catching a trout is a bonus because I go just to "be there". I enjoy the sights, sounds, smells, etc. I love hiking through and to hear the beautiful call of a Wood Thrush, and to spot a surprised White Tailed Deer bounding through the forest with grace and beauty. I love to see a Tiger Swallow Tail sipping nectar from a flower, and fog rolling in from a valley. If I being fallen but redeemed with my limited appreciation of beauty, just thing how God must respond to His own created beauty. I believe He created the natural beauty for Himself as well as for us. I sure am glad, aren't you? Bob Dean, I agree that the meaning of natural beauty is that it shows God’s divine nature.

To me it also shows what God enjoys. Rev. 4:11 speaks of God creating for His good pleasure (KJV). (The modern translations say for His will He created, but that sounds too technical to me) I really believe God enjoys the beauty of His creation more even than we do. I love fly-fishing in a small NC mountain stream, clear as crystal, rushing over rocks and plunging down into pools. I say that catching a trout is a bonus because I go just to “be there”. I enjoy the sights, sounds, smells, etc.

I love hiking through and to hear the beautiful call of a Wood Thrush, and to spot a surprised White Tailed Deer bounding through the forest with grace and beauty.

I love to see a Tiger Swallow Tail sipping nectar from a flower, and fog rolling in from a valley.

If I being fallen but redeemed with my limited appreciation of beauty, just thing how God must respond to His own created beauty. I believe He created the natural beauty for Himself as well as for us. I sure am glad, aren’t you?

Bob

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