Nothing in the world can be detached from the power that sustains everything. Because without this power there is no existence. A detachment from the all-sustaining power would therefore be tantamount to ‚no longer being‘. And so everything that exists must bear witness to a power that has no other origin than God Himself. For something must exist where the power emanates.... there must be a source of power. What the source of power is called is the same as long as it is only recognized once. To be able to imagine an entity as a source of power is only the consequence of recognizing it. As long as man is aware in his innermost being of a power that sustains the work of creation, he does not deny the eternal deity, for he recognizes that very power as something divine, even though he does not clothe it in a form. He must only always affirm the connection with every work of creation and thus also regard himself as such a work of creation, which is, as it were, in the closest connection with that all-sustaining power. But insofar as he disputes the connection of the creating power with the created things, to which therefore man also belongs.... i.e. he considers created things, once they have come into being, to be independent of the creating power, then he denies God, no matter what he imagines the term ‚God‘ to mean. For then he presents everything in creation as an inherently conditional event that has just come into being without a plan, without meaning and without purpose. He then denies the entire work of creation a wise reason, a connection between the individual creations and a purpose. Then he recognizes no purpose in what he sees, but sees everything merely as the product of a process that is constantly and continuously repeated, but which cannot be evaluated in any depth, i.e. to which neither reason nor purpose can be attributed. In his view, what is, has arisen of its own accord and has neither a designer nor a controller above it; it therefore has neither a deeper meaning nor a specific purpose other than that which man himself has given it. He denies any possibility of a connection between the one work of creation and the other, and for him man as such is only a completely isolated creature which, depending on its ability, should now fit into the whole of creation and extract the greatest possible advantages from what is around it. And then he gives every work of creation, including the human being, just the short span of time of its existence and is convinced that after this short existence on earth it will dissolve into nothing again and pass away.... Such a view is totally erroneous. If the eternal deity, in accordance with this view, were to cover creation with His power, i.e. sever the connection with the works of creation, as man imagines, then suddenly there would be nothing more, for insofar as the power that sustains everything is withdrawn from the creature, its existence is over. Thus, even without being acknowledged, God continues to grant His strength to the human being who denies Him.... Earthly, therefore, the erroneous opinion has little detrimental effect, but spiritually the disadvantage is unimaginable....

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