Romans chapter 1 reminds us that the creation reveals God to us all the time: "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse."
People are without excuse in beleiving God or in fact Jesus. Jesus is after all the one through whom everything has been made - his fingerprints are all over the creation with even the constant cycle of death and life in the creation pointing towards the death and resurrection of the author of all things.
The creation constantly reveals the wonder and majesty of God. Theologian Robert Dabney probably words it best: “They who have no Bible may still look up to the moon walking in brightness and the stars watching in obedient order; they may see in the joyous sunbeams the smile of God, and in the fruitful shower the manifestation of his bounty; they hear the rending thunder utter his wrath, and the jubilee of the birds sing his praise; the green hills are swelled with his goodness; the trees of the wood rejoice before him with every quiver of their foliage in the summer air"
All creation proclaims the marvelous creator of all!
So, if "people are without excuse in beleiving God or in fact Jesus", how does predestination fit in?
ReplyDeleteSorry - couldn't resist asking!