Tuesday, September 20, 2011

General Revelation (stolen from my facebook page)

Just recently I watched the video from the Prince of Egypt when Moses encounters the Burning Bush.. when I first saw the video, I thought to myself how awesome it would be to see God's Glory like Moses did, but then I realized that I do see His Glory every day. God's general revelation is everywhere in creation, He has revealed Himself to the whole world.. His invisible attributes have been analogically made visible through His creation, meaning that He has revealed things we cannot see, by using the things we can see.. we can get a feel for God's infinite character by looking out into the ocean, or we can see a fragment of God's Glory by looking up into the sky, we can even see God's creative design when we examine the infrastructure of the fish and sea creatures. we can also see that this magnificent design begs for a designer, and the only logical theory we can take from all this design, is that there is a transcendent Designer.. God is everywhere and has revealed Himself to everyone. Psalm 19:1 says, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork." God really is an Awesome God!

God has also revealed His law to everyone. We are born with a specific moral code, what we believe in our hearts is right and wrong without anyone telling us. In the former paragraph I explained "Mediate General Revelation", that God has revealed Himself to us outwardly, in this paragraph I intend to look at Immediate General Revelation". This means that God has given every man and woman, even the reprobate, a knowledge of Him. Romans 1 says that those who do not believe in God "suppress the truth". Romans 2:15 says that He has written His law (morals) on everyone's heart, so there is no excuse. God has revealed Himself in multiple ways to all of His creation, and all you have to do is look, and its there.

1 comment:

  1. You are so right... when people say if there is a God why doesn't He show himself the truth is that God shows Himself to us everyday. as soon as we walk outside we can see His glory, and every breath we take shows us how gracious He is, because since He made us He can end us... every breath that we take is a gift from God...

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