One might say, from a materialistic or agnostic
point of view : "You forget that the planet Earth
is like a grain of sand in the universe, and you see yourself as the center of
creation, and on this you build your religious ideas, relating your conclusions
from the specific to the general." Let us reply to such possible remark.
In discussions about God, one can only speak of the Creator and Provider of the
entire universe and our Saviour. The reproach turns back on its source, when we
hear the announcement, supposedly of scientific nature, but with a mysterious
quality, that there is an element on earth that, in properly combined with
other elements, provides a beginning and a starting spark to life; it is only
required that the combination occur, and the seed of life will arise. But no
one has yet revealed such a law among the precise regularity qualitative of all
earthly matter. Do we have to await an unexpected "accident?" On the
other hand, if the earth is a grain of sand in the universe, as it truly is,
and if one imagines an accident and makes it an example for the
possible appearance of life in the universe, then will not such an image of the
origin of life appear as child’s play? In fact, we see that, in all the kinds
and genders of living beings, life comes from life. This is its law.
We bow down before the greatness of that holy Biblical
panorama which is portrayed from the second line of the first chapter of
Genesis and is chosen in condensed form and offered to our hearing in the
Old Testament readings of our three greatest feast days: the Birth of Christ,
Epiphany and Great and Holy Saturday. We present the beginning and the end of
this Church reading. Genesis 1:1, 13:
"In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters… And God said: Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is
in itself, upon the earth: and it was so… And the evening and the morning were
the third day."
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