Main news for 14 July 2013

At all times people asked the question: why everything on earth is arranged the way it is arranged? Why everything happens as it happens? And at all times two various answers were given to this question - different not in details, but in the approach to the thing. Some reduced the question "why" to the question "how", others tried to discover the first cause. Quite as the question who moistens the earth and grows in it the harvest, two mainly different answers are admitted. The scientist would describe this process as purely natural, without resorting to any other explanations, and as scientist, he would absolutely be right. Science does not ask the question "why", always reducing it to the final account to the question "how", to the question about the secondary reasons and mechanisms. In the practical plan the knowledge of these mechanisms is completely necessary, but for a full spiritual life, only such knowledge is not sufficient. For the spiritual life, the most important question is the question of the sense of what happens, the question "why". The understanding of the work of the mechanism, even the most complex, does not give the answer to this question: because even the most complex mechanism remains still only a mechanism, the answer to the question who made it, who launched it and why, and for what it works, will remain open even in case we shall know absolutely everything about the ways and principles of its works.

The answer to the question "why" can not give the nature, but the spirit, not "something", but "someone". And this "someone" has to be in its scales comparable with the nature as a whole, with the universe in all its plenitude. And the Bible proposes us exactly the answer, based on the fact that the world is ruled particularly by Someone, the One who created it and Who alone can give meaning to its existence. But the Bible is alien to the glances on the Creator, widely spread among the philosophers of the XVIII century, among which several were convinced that God, once having created the world, later left it alone and does not intervene any more in its life, such that all which takes place in the world, has no relation with Him.

The Bible sees in God not only the Creator, but also the Divine Providence, i.e. such a Creator, Who having created the world, does not leave it to its fate, participating later in its life and interfering in what happens in the world created by Him. That is why the author of the Psalm speaks about the God, Who by Himself sends the rain on the earth to water it and grow on it an abundant harvest. The problem here is not in the means, which God uses for that, and even not in the fact that He is the prime cause of everything, but in the fact that without Him everything loses its sense, and then will already be necessary neither the rain, nor the harvest, nor the lands, nor the sky.