XXVIII. Quod homines Deum per creaturas vident

XXVIII. Quod homines Deum per creaturas vident

To whom the Lord gives a response, through which they are also questioned: if they have not seen Him through the illumination of good knowledge and through the light of the sun, when they ought to do good; and if they have not seen Him through the darkness of their hearts and the shadows of night, when they should have avoided evil; or if they have not known Him in the seeds of justice, which are nourished by the Holy Spirit for great growth; or if they have not seen Him when they cast temporal seeds into the ground, and when those seeds are drenched with dew and rain, and in this way they grow; which could not happen except through the Creator of all things? What kind of person dares to test the Creator? For every creature tends toward him who formed it in its own duties; and it recognizes that only God created it, because he alone is the one who made all things. Yet a person, constrained and divided by many vanities, even tries to limit his Creator, as he sometimes refuses to go beyond Him, and divides Him into many creatures, because through the taste of his own will he assigns God to every cause he establishes for himself in his own will, so that he says that God created him in such a way that he cannot avoid the sin he wishes to commit. Wisdom dictated the Scriptures. But what the Scriptures have accomplished is known through their manifold wisdom, since God made them, because no human could find them if the wisdom of God had not dictated them. And in that subtle and insightful inquiry, one must ask who created man, since it is God who made him.