In six months, Hume will be replenished and whole again. With the Winter months ahead, there many storms to go for this natural place to recover and thrive. In June of 2016, I will look back on this time and remember the blessings and comfort this place brings. By at least a full weekend visit where there are people and peace of mind.
It was a very peaceful day today at Hume lake. Where I spent time exploring the entire perimeter around the lake to get more familiar with the area. There’s a trail that goes the full length around the lake for about a few miles. There are a large number of paths from the trail to the shore throughout the area. Sandy Cove tucked away toward the back of the lake was a nice surprise.
Aside from the amazing beauty and peace that came from being there, there were all walks of life out and about. Not high-density crowds, but families and people of all ages interspersed as hikers, fishing folks, bikers, kayaking, bible students, joggers, dog walkers, on and on. It was just as rewarding watching people as it was seeing the remote lake up-close and first hand.
Today I spent time going through Ligonier’s lecture on causality or the nature of cause and effect. That with every effect in this physical universe, there must be a cause. R.C. Sproul proceeded to refute each argument about the idea that there are some effects without a cause. And that more specifically, according to Hume, all effects are simply a series of events ‘in contiguity’.
Sproul contends that with every effect, there’s something that sets it in motion. That something must at some point exist independent of a cause to produce an effect. To forward the thought that there is no separate being outside of what it takes to produce cause and effect, Hume’s idea is a self-spawned point of convenience. Or at best, a misunderstanding about the nature of God and His independence from the dimension of time. Contrary to Hume’s view, God is not somehow co-mingled with “everything” or put into effect by some cause.
Rather, it’s logically accurate to conclude that you can not expect to see anything come out of nothing (i.e., the law of contradiction). Or, more specifically, concerning Creation and the existence of God, something out of nothing when God is independent of time and our physical universe. God isn’t required to exist through external cause. God is an eternal being. An uncaused cause. For us, God is the first cause, either through order not understood or otherwise.
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