Welcome to a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

If God exists, but he wanted us to perpetually be in the dark, he could have remained silent.

Or if God wanted to only reveal his will and his moral expectations for us, but not himself he could have.

That's what makes the idea of Christian revelation so remarkable.

Not only that God exists, but that he wanted us to know.

And he wanted us to know not only what he expected of us, he wanted us to know himself.

Getting God right requires that we rely on what he's revealed.

I asked Dr. Thaddeus Williams, professor at Biola University and author of the book

Revereering God, to describe the significance of God speaking within a truly Christian worldview.

Here's Dr. Williams.

What do you think is the most repeated phrase in the entire

Bible? It's, thus says the Lord, which clocks in at over 400 occurrences. The God of the Bible is not

the stone, cold, silent God of the ancient Greeks. He's not the stone cold, silent God of the

ancient Stoics or Epicureans, too busy enjoying

the amenities of divine bliss to bother with humanity. No, the God who exists is a God who speaks.

It's all too easy to take God speaking for granted. In fact, this is something we can learn from one of the most famous atheists

of the 20th century, the French existentialist Albert Camus. Camus reckoned honestly with the

implications for humanity if no speaking God exists. When it comes to man's most basic questions of

meaning and purpose, Camus said, the universe is silent.

So we shout, why are we here to the night sky? And the answer is, crickets.

We can admire Camus honesty when he says, all human attempts to answer the questions of meaning are futile, our very

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