Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: WHO created all these?
Isaiah 40:26
Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Psalm 100:3
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.
Psalm 19:1-2
… you have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:10
… put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:24
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:13,4,16
“Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!”
Luke 12:27-28
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17
Christ was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
1 Peter 1:20
… the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
Revelation 13:8
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton
The king asked you for life, and you gave it to him — length of days, and for ever and ever.
Psalm 21:4
The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God WHO GAVE IT.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
John 17:24
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
John 14:1-3
Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.”
Matthew 25:34
So how did so many art experts fall for Beltracchi’s rubbish for so long? Jentsch traces the failure to sloppiness, laziness, and in some cases, a powerful desire to believe. The Beltracchi’s cleverly exploited the blindness and gullibility that pervades the high-stakes world of art, where connoisseurship and provenance can get lost in the frenzy of excitement over a new find.
