NOTES for Wis 13:1
Do we understand how much God is revealed to us? Even from our little creative experience we could conclude that any work always reflects something very essential of the personality of his author. Therefore, examining the greatest of all works - the Creation, how not to see the greatness, the legitimacy, the purposefulness and the goodness of the Creator?! How? My own thirty years of personal experience of atheist's life show that it is very simple. It is only necessary to take a lot care of ourselves, with our feelings, and in case of the study of the outside world - with our approaches and our results. It is in particular such a life that another "book of the wise" in the Bible - the Ecclesiastes – calls "vanity of vanities, all is vanity". It is spoken here of the same vanity, about self-awareness, as an obstacle to the knowledge of God. And the apostle Paul writes about the same thing in His epistle to Romans. And God with His Creation indeed calls to Him every man, having first of all created him, and after giving the capability to know the reality, to detect in it links and direction of growth.