{"id":231,"date":"2018-09-11T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/09\/11\/parable-of-day-painting-without-author\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:33:43","slug":"parable-of-day-painting-without-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/parable-of-day-painting-without-author","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: A Painting Without Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/8-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"537\" data-original-width=\"829\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An atheist came to an elder and started telling him that he didn\u2019t believe in God. He just couldn\u2019t buy the idea of a Creator who made the whole Universe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A couple of days later, the wise elder paid a visit to the atheist\u2019s place and brought a splendid painting with him. The atheist was thrilled. He had never seen a more perfect masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cWhat a nice picture! Who painted it? Who\u2019s the author?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cNo one. There was a clean canvas and some paints on a shelf above the canvas. The paints spilled over, and here is the result.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d<\/em> the atheist laughed. <em>\u201cIt\u2019s impossible: it\u2019s an excellent work of art with precise contours, brush strokes, and color combinations. I can sense the deep meaning of this picture behind the glorious artwork. I don\u2019t think it could be possible without an author.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wise man smiled and said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cYou are unable to believe that this small picture appeared at random, without a plan. But you want me to believe that this wonderful world of ours, with its forests and mountains, oceans and valleys, changes of seasons, glorious sunsets and quiet moonlit nights emerged randomly, without a Creator\u2019s plan?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Translated by The Catalog of Good Deeds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An atheist came to an elder and started telling him that he didn\u2019t believe in God. 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