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Saturday 7 March 2020

The Ordered Universe

“Observe how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.
And His works go on from year to year for ever, and all the tasks which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but according as hath ordained so is it done.”

— Book of Enoch

Pythagoras realised the universe is mathematically ordered and it is one small step to go from there to the Heraclitus view that an entity makes it that way and keeps it that way and calling that entity the Logos leaves Christianity to complete the last step and recognise that Logos made flesh is Christ and the Holy Spirit says it is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ which is that by which all nature stays in predetermined order. So that first observation was possible for Pythagoras although some argue he was helped by the Zoroastrian religion, but it takes the Holy Spirit to lead to the true conclusion, and the Christ dying on a cross and rising from the dead makes it more certain.

 “Consider the trees, they put forth buds and leaves. They do so by the authority of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
— Holy Spirit