2 Timothy 3:10-17
All Scripture is God Breathed
10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Romans 1:18-25
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
God and nature are eternally linked...God inspired the Bible...And God created the heavens and the earth, and thus created nature...The early believers saw creation, nature and God as very close, if not One...Studying nature in the past times of years and years ago, made us think of our own existence, and about purpose...The ancient ones saw this great mystery in nature...They saw God in this mystery...Then many years later something changed...God became less linked with nature...
St. Paul wrote about the Bible being inspired by God, and he also wrote about creation and nature being God's work...St. Paul's words were that all Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work...It is further said that God wrote two books...The book of the Bible, and the Book of Nature...Since God created nature, God also created science, because there is science in nature and creation...And since nature is part of creation, believers find this believable...
Somehow God and nature and how those are linked got changed or that belief somewhat slowed as science became more and more involved in nature, and in studying it...Not believing that God was a part of nature or that God created nature, maybe credited to Thomas Paine in his book or pamphlet, "The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology."...Paine challenged religion and the Bible in the late 1700's and early 1800's...In his book he said, "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of...My own mind is my own Church."...Paine did not believe in the miracles in the Bible...Therefore, he saw the Bible as only an ordinary book...And this may have started a movement for others to look at their own beliefs...The belief may have led to an intellectual movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason, but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind...Questions rose about God and His miracles as science was moving more and more in studying nature...And as science became more and more mainstream, nature and God seemed to have became more separated...
Paine also would write from his book The Theological Works of Thomas Paine, "The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed."...If this is and was true then science was examining nature more and more and examining the Bible less...The details and nuances of nature were being found as the sacred details were being studied and examined less...But no matter what the cause was, science with its great discoveries in the past centuries on nature have somehow separated, God and nature...
In the natural laws of nature, science has found a lot out about how nature works as they study it...And in their studies, as they study nature, they will see great design from a Divine Designer...Do we give God credit for the perfect designs of nature?...Something and somewhere in the subtleness of nature we find symmetry, beauty, and patterns...The great mathematician Leonard Euler said, "Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear."...And if one did not know any better, one might say there is purpose in these designs of nature...But often this gets overlooked...I believe that the Presence of God is near us, and He is near us in nature -there is a purpose of nature...And if there is purpose in nature, Someone or Something would have had to put it there...