There is a glorious revelation of God that is present in the created world around us.
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. (Rom 1:19-20)
When we go the Scriptures, we discover that our observations in nature are confirmed and clarified by Scripture. God is the creator and sustainer of creation and it testifies to his glory. A man asked me the other day, “Why do so many people deny God, and the Bible?” The answer that the Bible gives to this question is that people love their sin more than God.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. (John 3:19)
As Thomas Nagel, a well known atheist put it:
I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.
How does God break through such obstinate sin and blindness? He does so by revealing the glory of his Son through the Scriptures:
“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor 4:6)
