Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig. Today, the Doctrine of Revelation

Part 2. For more information and resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonable faith.org.

We've been talking about God's general revelation in nature and conscience, And I pointed out that general revelation

serves a number of functions which we want to continue to talk about today. The first function

of general revelation is to reveal God's glory. In the marvelous universe around us, we see the majesty and the greatness

of God revealed. And as a result of this, Paul says, secondly, that this renders all persons

culpable before God.

All persons are responsible to recognize God's existence based on his revelation in nature and

his moral law and its demands upon them in light of the moral law implanted on their

hearts.

So if we turn to Romans chapter 1, we read in verse

20, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature, namely his eternal power

and deity has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made,

so they are without excuse.

And then over in chapter 2, verse 15, Paul says that the Gentiles who do not have the

law show that what the law requires is written on their

hearts while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or

perhaps excuse them.

So all persons are held responsible for believing in an eternal, powerful creator of the universe and for

recognizing the demands of his implanted moral law upon their lives.

Now the question would be then, does this provide information about God that is sufficient for a person

to come not merely to a knowledge that God exists, but to come to a saving knowledge of God?

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