Romans 1:19-20

The third way God expects us to learn is through observation and experiences in the world we live in. We have been placed here; like it or not, this is our classroom.

Here we can see all that God has created. It is tremendously awesome. We can see His nature by what He created, and also that He continues to make it all operate. That is astounding! We have all the water we ever had. It is still here, and it all goes to the rain, goes to the mountains, into snow and ice, gets melted down, and comes back through the streams, back to the ocean.

The spaceship we are on is truly awesome. Everywhere we look God is revealed to us—in our hands in how they move. He has revealed in our eyes that they can focus instantly, and the heart that pumps all the blood, day after day. And all through this we see the awesome creation of God everywhere we look, and when we reflect on that, it causes us to be awestruck.

Romans 1:18-20

What Job is saying is that there is deliberate instruction from the Creator in the world around us so that we are without excuse if we say we have no models or examples about things. It is saying that God intends that we use the senses to observe what He has made and derive wisdom from it.

You might recall Romans 1:18-20 and paraphrase what it is saying there, that the unrighteous suppress knowledge of God and that what may be known of Him is clearly seen by the things He has made. Thus it is with animals. God created them with certain traits that we need to study, observe, watch, question into, and then derive wisdom from, and either emulate it, copy it, or eliminate it from our character. God says in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4 that we are to live by every word of God. We just read a part of it that says there is wisdom about God in observing animals.

Romans 1:19-20

God is invisible to us, but He has made clear evidence that He is. Of course right at this point Paul is just saying that the creation itself is evidence of the existence of a Creator, and that that Creator is not just Creator, but He is the Ruler and Sustainer and the Provider of what He has created. Other attributes of His also pour open the fact that He is the Creator God, so there is evidence available to everybody who lived that there has to be a Creator.

Romans 1:18-20

What is he saying? He is saying people know. They know what is right. They know that there is a God. He has shown it to them. If they claim they do not know, they are lying; they are simply remaining willfully ignorant of that, and He says they have no excuse.