Romans 1:19-21 from the lecture by John Piper

For my blog readers who were happy to see this post:
Block Quote from John Piper Lecture on Why we believe our Bible
The lecture found here:
https://www.biblicaltraining.org/library/why-we-believe-our-bible/john-piper

also has this to say:

"III. Natural Revelation

So, this is the missing premise and how I think it works. This has to do with natural revelation. This has to do with the way God has communicated to us in nature, not in the Bible. Nobody will get saved by natural revelation, but it is very important. This is the immediate knowledge of God that comes with human consciousness in the world. I am not operating just at the exegetical level but at the testimonial level. I have tried my best to feel whether I am just aping words from the Westminster Catechism or experiencing what they are talking about. I just don’t want to just read this document and mimic something in regards to reading the Bible. I want to experience what is being said; do I see what they say should be seen? (Romans 1:19-21) I have a heading here that says, that which is known about God is evident within them. That which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. So, he is arguing that people everywhere in the world know him. Since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, like eternal power and divine nature, these have been clearly seen, being understood through things that have been made. These invisible attributes are clearly seen in the universe, molecules, galaxies, trees, oceans, insects, fish, spiders that even live under water; this can all be seen in biology, astronomy, and physics. That is what this is talking about; so that they are without excuse. This knowledge is so clear that every unbeliever in the world has no excuse at the judgement. They will not be judged for not believing in Jesus, if they have never heard of Jesus. Instead, they will be judged for not owning up to and for repressing the knowledge available to them. That is what we do, we oppress this knowledge. Even though they knew God, they do, but they didn’t honor him as God or give thanks to him.

This is what I want; in reading the Westminster Catechism, one of the reasons that we are drawn to faith in God and believing the Bible in a warranted and justified way, is that its scope as a whole is to glorify God. And I’m going to link that to this text and all of our experiences in the world of God before even reading the Bible. I am saying that there is something about the very world we live in and the hearts created in the image of God that if the cobwebs can be removed which is what the Holy Spirit does, what we see in the Bible would be so evident and clear with what you see in the world. You would immediate say that this was God’s book."

Continue reading the Lecture here:Lecture 4: Scope and Cohesiveness of the Bible | Free Online Biblical Library

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