The land even teaches us of the wisdom and goodness of God. God sustains the land by his love. Theologically speaking, we must not believe that God created this beautiful expanse only to step back and watch it spin into chaotic oblivion, as deists would have us believe. Christian orthodoxy argues that God continues to be the ongoing creator and sustainer of all the land. God is the initial creator, but God does not stop creating. Rather, God continues to make creation and hold it together, which we call creatio continua. This idea is depicted in the book of Hebrews: Jesus “holds everything
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