Gold Nugget 316 - Idolizing Nature
When men are not watchful, they live by sight and forget the life of faith. Others make the senses the only organs of knowledge, and base their so-called philosophy upon sensation. It is not to be wondered at, in such circumstances, that nature-worship prevailed in olden times and prevails still.
A great deal of the antitheistic science of the present time is, when analyzed, just nature-worship. When men in their headstrong self-confidence attribute independent powers to nature; when they maintain – on what grounds they do not tell us, for it is a matter of faith not sight – that the “reign of law” is workable without God, then they are really idolizing nature. …
The nature-worship and manifold idolatries are amenable to the treatment of enlightened love. Let us study candidly and carefully the case, and administer with all tenderness the remedy. It may be that in some cases the old picture may be reversed. Instead of the imposition of hands in order to destruction, it may be an imposition of hands in ordaining to Divine work those who formerly ignored God altogether. However this may be, our duty is clear to try to overcome this particular evil by good.
The Pulpit Commentary, Deuteronomy p. 296, Deuteronomy 17:1-7, (R. M. Edgar)
Gold Nugget 316
Idolizing Nature
