FCP-01-WITHOUT EXCUSE.
WITHOUT EXCUSE. This present revision seeks to emphasize the Hand of God upon all His Creation in the same way that Mr. Payne was first led to write it and clearly we are ’Without Excuse’ if we ignore the Hand of God on all His Work because the Scriptures make it clear that the visible things we see in the world, nature which teems around us, the flowers which bloom, the sea and all within it, the birds which fly, the animals who roam its surface, the very earth on which we live and the evidence of our own existence, reveal to the heart which searches for meaning, the God who created all these things. Romans has this:
’That which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are CLEARLY seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.’ Romans 1:19-20.
They are so clearly His Workmanship and, just as clearly, not our own that we are indeed ’without excuse’ if we deny it. They are all made for purpose and have, within them all, the ’Seal’ of He who made them.
One does not need to be an atomic scientist these days to know, even if we cannot understand it, that electrons have specific patterns, impossible to alter without rendering them unstable, because we believe these facts which have been discovered by some and verified by others.
It is not necessary to be a botanist to understand that various species are identified as belonging to a specific genera determined by their structure and pattern because, these are published facts. One does not have to be a specialist to understand that all these patterns show a Hand, and a Knowledge, beyond the ability of man to understand yet, despite this fact, scientists use these little understood ’norms’, with their variations and patterns and paths as a foundation for their studies because they know they are reliable.
All knowledge is not the prerogative of all men but knowledge has been gathered and stored so that ordinary people, such as we, can draw upon that knowledge with freedom and use it for further reference and study in areas which interest us. Therefore, in this book, we are going to examine some of those designs which draw our attention to the Master Designer and, perhaps, even look beneath the surface of some and see further proof of His Hand in places we had not thought to find Him before.
They are like the watermarks we see in our banknotes which verify they are genuine, but they go further than that for they are there to encourage us to seek even more diligently for the God we have already believed in and give us opportunity to disclose His Hand to those who have not seen Him. I firmly believe that design in flowers, orchids, vegetation, human and animal life, atomic structure, and the galaxies, show the ’Seal’ of a Hand and a Mind which is beyond our capacity to know or understand and one which created all these things long before our eyes had ever seen them or our own minds began to understand they were even there. This follows in atomic structure, all life, and the Written Word of God itself and I believe these patterns in Creation reveal to all that the great Architect of them all is God Himself and further, that the patterns revealed in numeric design in Scripture declare to the ’doubter’ His Hand is there also. The verses we read before from Romans 1:19-20 are followed by a warning and speaks to those who, despite having seen clearly seen these things, still deny them and worship instead the created thing instead of He who created them, and it tells of the end of this foolishness also for they join all those, ’Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.’ Romans 1:25, and God will ’give them up.’ They are ’without excuse.’