Yesterday I said that I thought we probably needed to think more about this biblical idea

that since the whole of creation is a revelation of God, then nothing is ultimately atheistic.

There's no last exit from divine revelation.

I mentioned a Dutch theologian, Herman Bavink. Let me mention another great Dutch theologian, Abraham Kuiper.

He is a beautiful statement he makes in his encyclopedia of theology when he says,

If the cosmos is the theater of Revelation,

in this theater, man is both actor and spectator.

We were thinking yesterday about being spectators of Revelation,

but we're also actors on the stage.

Why is that? Because we're made as the image of God. We're made to reflect God. The creation

account in Genesis 1 climaxes with God making man in a different way from the way he had made other creatures, making man

after holding a divine counsel and making him in particular as his image in order to reflect

him and to imitate him. And so you see in the opening two chapters of the Bible

that as God has created all things and filled all things,

so man as his image is given a little garden

and he's told to tend it and keep it and to fill it

and indeed to extend it.

It's almost as though God wanted Adam and Eve to be able to walk with him in the cool

of the day and to discuss the things they had in common.

It's a beautiful picture.

But you see what it means.

It means that we can never escape the revelation of God, not only because we are surrounded by it,

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