Saturday, June 30, 2007

On the First Article of Religion

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/4051/

[Stand Firm] 30 June 2007--The Article moves next to affirm that God is the "Maker and Preserver of all things visible and invisible." God, in other words, is not the famous “Watchmaker” imagined by the Deists. He did not create the universe and then walk away to let it run by itself. God actively "preserves" or sustains everything in existence. If, for one moment, God were to withdraw his sustaining hand, the universe would come undone in the twinkling of an eye. God provides the breath of life to all who live and the power of existence to all things that exist, moment by moment, hour by hour, year by year....

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