We hope you enjoy this re-post from March 26, 2015. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. – Psalm 19:1, King James Version (KJV)

How does God reveal Himself to mankind? In three ways. The first two give us a general knowledge that there must be a god (or gods). The third one tells us specifically who that creator is: the God of the Holy Bible.

As Psalm 19:1 states, creation tells us that there must be a creator. The universe is extremely orderly. In fact, modern science relies on the understanding – and reality – that the universe is governed by observable, predictable, measurable processes (often call laws, like the Law of Gravity) that scream, “Order!” If everything was random – if there was no predictable order to the universe – then scientific experimentation would be useless because there would be no universal patterns, processes, or laws to discover. The point? No one has ever witnessed randomness give birth to order. Many have speculated that it can, but no one has ever witnessed it do so. Even those who claim that random, evolutionary processes have been successfully recreated in laboratories fail to acknowledge the huge flaw in their position: scientists were directing, managing, and ordering the experiments according to a plan. So, where does observation teach us that order comes from? It teaches us that order comes from an intelligent designer.

As Romans 2:14-15 teaches us, every human being is born with a conscience.  Some are better than others at ignoring their consciences, but everyone has an innate understanding of right and wrong. Don’t believe me? Then answer me this: Why has every civilization in history had a code of laws of some kind? The answer is to punish what that society deemed evil and to reward what that society deemed good. Here’s another question: Why did you feel guilty when you did something wrong as a child, even when you were too young to understand the intellectual idea of morality? Because you knew in your heart, instinctively, that what you did was wrong. This idea of “right and wrong” can only come from a moral lawgiver. Something devoid of (with no understanding of) morality – like evolution – would be incapable of constructing and placing in the hearts of every man, woman, and child the moral law that is inarguably there.

Creation and conscience tell the rational human being that there must be an intelligent designer and that there must be a moral lawgiver. To deny this is to deny what science is: the knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation. Observation teaches us that order comes from an intelligent designer and that law comes from a lawgiver, so there must be a being or a group of beings – a god or gods – that put this universe into motion. But creation and conscience can only give us a general understanding that there must be a deity or deities. They do not give us any specific insight into the character or behavior of this being or beings. To obtain this insight, we must look to the third way that God reveals Himself to mankind: The Holy Bible.

In the Bible we learn how God thinks. In the Bible we find what He values. And, in the Bible, we learn how He wants us to interact with Him. If it weren’t for the Bible, we’d have no details about the God that put the universe into motion, and we’d have no understanding of how we should interact with Him.

But here’s the big question: Can we trust what the Bible teaches us about God? To find out, be sure to read tomorrow’s edition of Today’s Quote From God!