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"Nothing Can Be Added To It Nor Taken From It"

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Announcements Forums God the Only Cause and Creator – December 8th, 2019 "Nothing Can Be Added To It Nor Taken From It"

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    This week, the powerful statement, “God the only Cause and Creator” brings to my attention the self-seeker as opposed to the God-seeker. Man, as effect of the only Cause, was created to seek God as naturally as a compass needle seeks the earth’s magnetic north. To posit other causes and creators is as absurd as insisting that there are many magnetic poles to choose from, while ignoring, belittling, or doubting the existence of the real one. Self-seekers gravitate to the things of self, an imagined, unreal magnetic pole originating from mortal self, not God; civilizations rise and fall depending upon how well they maintain this basic relationship of Cause and effect; once it is compromised, then the values of that civilization are overturned.

    Isaiah 29:16 —

    Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

    Elliot’s Commentary: “Surely your turning of things upside down.—The words are better taken as exclamatory, O your perversity! Isaiah was indignant at that habit of always taking things at their wrong end, and looking on them from the wrong side.
    Shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay . . .—Better, Shall the potter be counted as the clay? …. Taken as a question, the words bring out the character of the perversity, the upside-downness, of which the prophet speaks. The men whom he condemns were inverting the relations of the Creator and the creature, the potter and the clay, acting practically as atheists, denying that there was a Divine order of which they formed a part.”

    I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. (Ecclesiastes, 3:14).

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