God in His Creation and His Revelation







Christian theists believe that God has revealed Himself to people in a general way through creation and in a special (personal) way evidenced by His divine words and acts contained in the Bible and especially in the person of Jesus Christ.
FROM: Noebel, David (2005-01-01). Understanding the Times: The Collision of Today's Competing Worldviews (Kindle Locations 1395-1397). Summit Press. Kindle Edition.

Just thinking about the above statement in David Noebel's book. God has revealed Himself in nature.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

Here in Romans chapter one Paul is writing about the wrath of God on the unrighteous. Here we see God revealed in His Creation and man has no excuse for not believing in God. There is no dought that Creation, with its design and complexity, had to have a designer. All reasonable men should come to that conclusion. God is very jealous over His creation and executes wrath against those that distort the reality of His great design. The bottom line is that man will or can see God in His Creation.

God does not leave man with Him being revealed in creation but He sent His Son to further reveal Himself. Before Jesus came to earth, God revealed Himself to many individuals and even to the Jewish tribes with supernatural revelation. Most were written down in the Old Testament. In Genesis 15 God even makes a covenant with Abraham and that covenant started a chain of events that is still revealing God to man.

So God has revealed Himself in a personal way to mankind through encounters in the Old Testament and now through Jesus. Jesus showed us what the Father was like. Jesus gave us a living, breathing example of how to be pleasing to the Father; How to understand His plan and how to be like Him.

When Jesus ascended into heaven, He gave His disciples the charge to go into all the earth and share the revelation He had revealed. Although the disciples had troubles at times, overall they were faithful to spread that revelation. God moved upon many of them to write down not only what Jesus taught while on earth, but what the disciples learned as they matured in their Christian walk. Not only did God reveal Himself in the Old Testament but once again in the New Testament.

Now it is up to us to partner with God in revealing Him and His goodness to the world around us. We have the evidence in Creation and we have His personal testaments handed down to us. As it says in Romans chapter 1, “[we] are without excuse”.