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Source of strength.... God denier....

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....

IZVOR SNAGE.... ATEISTI....

Ništa na svijetu ne može se odvojiti od snage koja sve održava. Jer bez te snage nema ni postojanja. Odvajanje od te snage koja sve održava bilo bi dakle istoznacno sa "prestankom postojanja". Tako da sve što postoji mora svjedociti o snazi koja nema nikakav drugi izvor nego Samoga Boga. Jer mora postojati nešto odakle snaga proizlazi.... mora postojati izvor te snage. Kako se naziva Izvor snage, nevažno je, samo ako Ga se priznaje. Zamisliti sebi jedno Bice kao Izvor snage tek je posljedica priznavanja Istoga.

Sve dok je covjek u svojoj najdubljoj unutrašnjosti svjestan snage koja održava svjetove i tvorevine, on ni ne nijece vjecno Božanstvo, pošto on tu snagu spoznaje kao nešto Božansko, iako ju ne 'zaodijeva' u odredenu formu. Sve što treba je uvijek potvrditi vezu sa svim djelima stvaranja a i sebe samoga doživljavati kao takvo jedno djelo stvaranja, koje se u neku ruku nalazi u najužoj vezi sa tom sve-održavajucom Snagom.

No ako on vezu stvaralacke Snage sa stvorenim stvarima, u koje spada i covjek, nijece [[ (u smislu, 'boriti se protiv') ]].... Dakle, ako stvorene stvari, kao jednom nastale, smatra neovisnima od stvaralacke Snage, on tada nijece Boga, sasvim svejedno što on sebi predstavlja pod pojmom 'Boga'. Pa tako tvrdi da je sve što je u svemiru, jedno samo-uvjetovano z-bivanje, koje je eto nastalo bez plana, bez smisla i bez svrhe. On tada cijelom djelu stvaranja porice njegovo pre-mudro obrazloženje, medupovezanost pojedinacnih tvorevina i njegovo odredenje.

Tad on ne priznaje svrhu onoga što vidi, vec sve vidi kao proizvod procesa koji se neprestano ponavlja, no koji ne bi trebao dublje ocjenjivati, što znaci koji za temelj nema niti obrazloženje niti svrhovitost. Ono što jeste, po njegovom je mišljenju tako nastalo samo iz sebe, te niti ima Konstruktora niti Upravljaca nad sobom; po tome niti ima dublji smisao niti odredenu svrhu osim one koju mu je covjek sam dao. Svaku medu-povezanost jednog stvorenja sa drugim on nijece [[ (u smislu, 'boriti se protiv') ]], i covjek kao takav za njega je samo jedno potpuno izolirano stvorenje, koje se vec s obzirom na svoju sposobnost uklapa u cijelo stvaranje i koje iz onoga što ga okružuje treba izvuci najvecu mogucu korist.

I tad on svakom djelu stvaranja, pa tako i covjeku, daje baš samo taj kratki vremenski rok svog postojanja i uvjeren je da se nakon tog kratkog postojanja na Zemlji ponovo raspada u ništa i propada.... Takvo jedno shvacanje dakle skroz je krivo. Kad bi vjecno Božanstvo obdarivalo stvaranje Svojom snagom u skladu sa ovim shvacanjem, što ce reci, kad bi prekinulo povezanost sa djelima stvaranja tako kako sebi to [[ (takav) ]] covjek zamišlja, odjednom ništa više ne bi postojalo, jer kad bi snaga koja sve održava bila povucena od stvorenja, njegovo postojanje bi se okoncalo. Tako dakle Bog, bez da Je priznat, i dalje dostavlja Svoju snagu covjeku koji Ga nijece.... Krivo shvacanje zemaljski nije toliko štetno, no duhovno je šteta nezamisliva.

(Prekid)