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God wants everyone to know him. He teaches about himself through all things that have been created. <ref>{{bgw|Ro 1:20 }} For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:</ref>  Observing the animals themselves does not teach us, but we learn from his word in what he has said about the animals.
God wants everyone to know him. He teaches about himself through all things that have been created. <ref>{{bgw|Ro 1:20 }} For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:</ref>  Observing the things themselves does not teach us, but we learn from his word in what he has said about the things.
 
Looking at air does not teach us much because it is invisible. But the word ''rauach'' רוח means both 'spirit' and 'wind'. Then God tells us that the Spirit is like the wind; though it is invisible, we see the work it does. <ref>{{bgw|Joh 3:8 }} The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. </ref>
 
This section concerns itself with those spiritual things that we should not learn.
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The air is a metaphor for the Spirit. The word rauach רוח means both 'spirit' and 'wind'. Metaphor or allegory is defined by the words, not merely invented by someone's imagination.


This section concerns itself with those spiritual things that we should not learn.