As a South Islander, a Cantabrian born and bred, I thoroughly approve of the new 50 cent stamp we are soon to be using for our regular letters.

Lake Coleridge, named after a descendant of the famous English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was created by glacier moraine. The water is snow-fed, freezing cold - testified to be so by one who once braved a skinny-dip therein! But to climb the surrounding mountains would require those scansorial feet that, as a native of the Canterbury Plains, I do not have.

This is the kind of natural beauty that tells me about the artistry and character of He who created all. To have spoken it all into being is quite some feat, and it has me wondering about the liberal theologians who say they believe in such a God but then go on to deny the intervention of His supernatural abilities whereby a virgin did give birth, and the crucified Jesus was bodily resurrected.

God is certainly not limited by liberal theology. It took Someone of incredible imagination to conceive of our world, and incredible artistry to design all its features. The only limits God exhibits are those self-imposed by virtue of His character, and of His being. The question may be asked, “can God create an object too heavy even for Himself to lift?” and the answer is neither yes nor no. If the answer is Yes, then it suggests that He is not omnipotent (all powerful) - and the same if the answer is No. The answer is that the question itself is meaningless nonsense. It is another form of the question “Is there something that is more than infinite?” And the answer to that is that it is logically impossible for anything to be more than infinite because infinity has no end. In short, the question represents a category mistake.

Our Creator has the power to do anything actually possible, even if it is impossible for ourselves to do, but He doesn’t attempt that which is meaningless nonsense as His character, His being, is not that of meaningless nonsense. The liberal theologians who attempt to strip away the truth of the Virgin Birth and the bodily Resurrection of Christ are confusing their own power (the lack of it) for His, laying on God their own human impotence. God who created all is far greater than that, as testified by His entire creation.

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To Nature

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It may indeed be fantasy when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this belief, it brings
Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God! and thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.