Because God is the absolute creator of all things, and because nothing exists outside of Him or apart from His creating decree, all things have their existence and their meaning from their sovereign creator, God. God, having no unconscious aspect in His being, is totally self-conscious and purposive in all His ways, so that all creation is a universe of total meaning. There is not a meaningless fact or atom in all creation, nor an event, nor any facet or aspect of anything that is not marked by total meaning. The meaning of most things eludes us. We do not understand the meaning of mosquitos, for example, or the hairs that fall from our head, nor of the often unhappy events in our lives, because we tend to look for their meaning in terms of ourselves. The meaning of all things is theocentric – God-centered, not man-centered – which means that, of necessity, things are meaningless if we try to read them in terms of man, in terms of ourselves. We do not create them, govern them nor, more than slightly, in a limited area and manner, influence them; they are of God’s ordination. Attempts to read the meaning of things humanistically are, thus, erroneous, futile, and blasphemous.
From: Systematic Theology by Rousas John Rushdoony; 2 volumes (Vallecito: Ross House Books, 1994), 1:19-20.
Rushdoony (1916-2001), the Armenian-American theologian, was the father of the Christian Reconstruction movement, also known as Theonomy.
