Foundational Principles (5): God’s Works: A Most Elegant Book
This article explores how God reveals Himself through creation and divine governance, arguing that the created world declares God's eternal power and divinity to all humanity. Laning demonstrates from Scripture (particularly Psalm 19 and Romans 1) that while God's revelation through creation cannot save, it renders all people without excuse before God. The piece integrates exegetical analysis with Reformed theological understanding of how general revelation functions in God's overall plan of disclosure.
So far we have talked about God's revelation in Scripture, the miraculous signs that took place during the time that Scripture was being revealed, and the lying signs and wonders that God has told us will be performed by false teachers in the last days. We now turn to consider how God makes Himself known by the creation that He has called into existence. God makes Himself known both by what He says and by what He does. Referring now to the latter, Scripture tells us that God makes Himself...
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