Earth

The Earth itself is the perfect picture of our limited perspective versus God's unlimited perspective. We live on Earth, and where we are right now, down is down and up is up. The ground is down and the sky is up. However there is someone reading this whose sky is down for me, and my sky is down for them. What's up is down and what's down is up. God made it that way but he did so with a purpose. The earth is not spherical simply because physics demands it. It is so to show us that. The way we are is dependent upon where we are and when we are. We are subject to time and space and matter. Why is north up and south down? Why not the other way around? I suspect its because Europeans drew our maps and wanted to be on top of the world rather than below.

God is different than us. Does God live in the north or the south? Is the sky up for God or down? You see, God is not affected by any of these things. God is timeless, spaceless, and spirit, not material. But how would we understand that? One way we could come to that realization is by the paradoxes of the earth itself. On earth, east is west and west is east. If you head north you will eventually start heading south, and if you head south you will eventually start heading north. The sky is up for me but down for you in China. By these paradoxes we should understand that there is so much more than just 'me'. Now where else do we see the employment of paradox to get a deep understanding across? Yeah, that's right, the Bible. You ever heard of the first being last and the last being first? Hmm... Do you think maybe the One that made earth also made the Bible? Check it out.

I call this creative apologetics. We are getting to the same result - knowing what is true and that God truly is. However this approach is not the typical prophecy-reading, site-digging, fact-knowing approach. All of that is good, and it is good for us to know. But this is just kinda a fun exercise for the mind. The fact of the matter is that there are so many ways to discover the truth of God. The Bible is the center for sure, but all of the universe has signs all over it, just screaming for you to take a second look.