Happy Father's Day. In this presentation, we are going to present God as a good father. God is a good father. Really! He provided for all his Creations on Earth the rain, wind, and sun, which give the seas and Earth their vast variety of life. His great genius created gravity and the atmosphere to keep us from flying off into space from the Earth's rotation and shield us from solar radiation and the vacuum of space. His eternal love gave us creatures the things and resources we need to make tools and the stuff we use in daily life besides the produce, beasts, fish, and fowl we consume.
The rain, wind, and sunshine God created and provides here on Earth combine to yield the elements of life. These elements, whether made by chemistry or pottery, supported the emergence of fish, beasts, and birds in our home world. This world's great assortment of life is a testament to God's creativity. His Fatherly love ensured we would have the rain, wind, and sunshine sufficient for our needs.
In the Bible's Book of Genesis, God divides the waters above the Earth from the waters below. This, I see as a parallel to providing an atmosphere that separates the waters below the gravity field from the waters on asteroids and elsewhere in space. This division of the water gravity field creation also shields the planet from the solar radiation streaming out of the sun. The timeless mind of God contains the sea of time and space in plain sight inside it and yields God and the faithful sharing the beatific vision, an unmatched genius. This genius is at work on our behalf in science and medicine because God is a good father, providing even for those without faith to receive straight from him.
God's providential foresight even provided natural resources to produce our tools, furniture, houses, clothing, etcetera. There is no lack of resources available if we are wise stewards and control our population development sustainably. We are not dumb brutes but are gifted with geniuses among us to guide our use of nature and scientific discoveries for our good. God has not left us unable to put our heads together and think, for better or worse. As a good father, God enabled us to have an intelligent life.
Sure, there are diseases, natural disasters, wars, crimes, and accidents. In Genesis, this is attributed to a fall from good graces. Humanity is flawed and produces a great deal of its own problems. Humanity's story has a happy ending, though. God forgives us and offers us eternal life after the death of our sinful body and restoration to the heavenly realm. For now, creation groans like a woman in labor.
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