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NASB | Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 1:20 For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense. [Ps 19:1-4; Eph 2:10] |
Bible Question:
Finding God in Nature, part 1 How can this verse be true? How can someone be responsible to know "God's divine nature" based only on nature? I will try to answer this in a series of posts, as I have many thoughts on this. First a little background about myself. I am a research scientist, and therefore, have spent a lot of time studying the world around me and the scientific theories about the universe. The result of this study has been that I believe that just examining nature around us "shows" us who God is. Notice that I don't say "proves". It is been my experience that nothing can actually be "proven". In life, we must make choices about what we "believe". And it is most logical to choose to believe what is more likely than what is less likely. For instance, the theory of gravity has never been actually "proven". However, our vast experience of seeing effects indicating its presence (ie. seeing balls drop, etc.) and its ability to fit into other scientific theories make it a much more logical to believe in gravity, than to disbelieve it. Therefore, we live our lives based on it being true (ie. we don't jump off tall buildings, thinking that we won't fall). Similarly, I have found that on every issue where we must choose what we believe, one option is more reasonable than any others. Therefore, in this series of posts I will try to explain why I find Christianity to be the most logical choice of belief. |
Bible Answer: Finding God in Nature, part 2 ................. When I look at the world the first thing that I notice is that it exists. I know this is obvious, but it is important. I also know that it is illogical for something to exist without having a beginning. So how did everything get here? One must believe that either it was always here and had no beginning, or "Something" else was always here and made everything. Now since it is illogical for anything to exist without beginning, then the most logical answer would be that only one "Thing" broke this logic as opposed to all things breaking the logic. In other words, it makes more sense to believe that only one "Power" always existed than to believe that the star in the sky, and the bird in the air, and rock on the ground, etc. have always existed (in some form of either energy or matter). Similarly, the existence of nature leads one to believe that there is an Eternal Power, who created the universe, because it is the most logical explanation. |