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it is impossible, as C. S. Lewis pointed out, to speak of things beyond our immediate senses without using metaphor.6
It would be a pity if, in a desire (rightly) to treat the Bible as more than a book, we ended up treating it as less than a book by not permitting it the range and use of language, order, and figures of speech that are (or ought to be) familiar to us from our ordinary experience of conversation and reading.
As Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said: “The meaning of the system lies outside the system.”18
If, therefore, we can learn things about God as Creator from the visible universe, it is surely incumbent upon us to use our God-given minds to think about what these things are, and thus to relate God’s general revelation in nature to his special revelation in his Word, so that we can rejoice in both.
we must not make the mistake of giving in to what C. S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery”25 and think that just because we live at a much later time, we must be much more clever by definition.
His biographer Robert Southern said of him that he “had come to see that there was no gap between the physics of creation and the theology of creation . . . It was his study of the Bible that convinced him that light was not only the most satisfying of all natural phenomena but also the emanation from the divine nature which at the first moment of creation penetrated and gave form to the whole universe.”28
