{"id":140,"date":"2015-08-24T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/08\/24\/god-is-supernatural-or-above-nature-and-is-the\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:00:21","slug":"god-is-supernatural-or-above-nature-and-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/08\/24\/god-is-supernatural-or-above-nature-and-is-the\/","title":{"rendered":"God is Supernatural or Above Nature and IS The Creator of the Universe, He IS NOT The Universe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its essence The Secret is Pantheism or belief that the<br \/>\nuniverse and nature is the same as divinity. If you watch The Secret closely,<br \/>\nthey will address God as being nature and use scripture to make you think it is<br \/>\nok. They tend to tie God and Jesus into nature saying they are the universe. This<br \/>\nis the danger removing our focus from God and pointing it towards stuff or new<br \/>\nidols.<\/p>\n<p>Once things tend to flow your direction then the<br \/>\nnon-spiritual aspects of the Law of Attraction takes control. We forget that<br \/>\nGod is NOT nature or the universe but rather above nature. God created these<br \/>\nnatural laws and they are here for doing good. One could argue that natures<br \/>\nlaws have always been in place and this may be a true statement, like God<br \/>\ngravity just is, like the Law of Attraction.<\/p>\n<p>We as created beings in God\u2019s image can tap into this law,<br \/>\nlike gravity. As they point out in The Secret, you may not believe in The Law<br \/>\nof Gravity, but you jump off a building and splat. The same goes with<br \/>\nattraction, we tend to attract what we focus on. I look at the period between<br \/>\n2001 and 2008, my focus was on debt and I got debt. Once I changed my focus to<br \/>\nabundance, it didn\u2019t change over night, but things started to change. <\/p>\n<p>We no longer looked a giving from what was left, but giving<br \/>\nbecame first. We still we conscious of debt but removed it and made a plan to<br \/>\npay it off and stuck to it. Seven years later we are living the life we wanted<br \/>\nand this is good. The key is remaining in focus with God and keeping my nose in<br \/>\nthe Bible.<\/p>\n<p>When science challenges God, like The Secret does in a<br \/>\nway remember in both cases what is going on. Science is the study of nature,<br \/>\nGod being supernatural is above nature and therefore has evidence in nature but<br \/>\ncannot be proven by the study of nature. At the same The Secret makes God equal<br \/>\nto the universe and not the creator of the universe. It\u2019s a subtle difference,<br \/>\nbut is critical in following God. As I noted before to get the full \u201csecret\u201d<br \/>\nyou need to explore more and see how giving is just as important as receiving!<br \/>\nThis is where The Secret fails and where the Bible fills in the holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its essence The Secret is Pantheism or belief that the universe and nature is the same as divinity. If you watch The Secret closely, they will address God as being nature and use scripture to make you think it is ok. They tend to tie God and Jesus into nature saying they are the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/2015\/08\/24\/god-is-supernatural-or-above-nature-and-is-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God is Supernatural or Above Nature and IS The Creator of the Universe, He IS NOT The Universe!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}