The supernatural keeps the natural in line. Honoring God is the best way to honor your grandfather. Thanking your Creator is the best way to respect other creatures. The natural cannot keep itself without reference to the supernatural. If it attempts to do so, it becomes unnatural. It cannot stay merely natural. No nature is not an option. There will be either supernatural or unnatural. When you fail to honor God, you do not get no honor, you get dishonor. Only the supernatural can hold the natural world together.
Romans 1:21-25
When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
It's only natural that God should be required to keep things in order. The best way to love anything is to love God more. The only way to keep things in line is to keep Christ at the head of the line. Normal life is only possible where revelation is acknowledged. If special revelation is rejected, you don't merely have natural revelation, but abnormal speculation. You can't stay put. As Chesterton elsewhere acknowledged, a love of white fences is a commitment to repainting them white. For if you leave them be, you will have gray fences. Unless we are remade daily by God's good mercies, we are rotting.
In other word, God has made the world in such a way that it is completely natural and normal for things to become unnatural when the supernatural is rejected and/or abandoned.
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