Paul here asserts that the attributes of God, such as his power and authority, are clearly revealed in the created world. All men have this witness, rendering them inexcusable before God when they rebel against him. The witness of conscience, God’s law written in every man’s heart, also renders all without excuse. What we may call “natural revelation” does not lend “saving light” as does special revelation (the Bible), but it does eliminate any possible excuse men might make.
And we pray:
May we be motivated to spread Your Word and Gospel to all the Earth, O Lord, knowing that it is the only hope of Man lost in his sin. Let us not hold out a false hope for Man to be saved without the Gospel but instead we endeavor to do our part to get the Gospel out to a lost and dying world. As hymn writer Isaac Watts put it, “Send Thy victorious Word abroad and bring the strangers home!” Amen.
According to the previous verses, those who are unrighteous before God do not want to know about Him, so they try to suppress the truth about God. To some extent, this is true of all human beings, since we all sin (Romans 3:23). Paul has shown that God has plainly shown what is knowable about Him to everyone (Romans 1:18–19). How has He done that? This verse answers that it is obvious from what He has made.
Specifically, Paul asserts that human beings can easily know at least some things about God by looking at creation. We should look at what is visible around us in nature, what God has made, and arrive at some obvious conclusions about what is not visible. Adding one and one together, we should understand from nature that God has eternal power and a divine nature. David said something similar in Psalm 19:1–6.
After all, Paul seems to be saying, what kind of power would it take to make the world and all that is in it? Such a feat would require “eternal power,” or endless and inexhaustible power. Such a Creator must also be divine and not merely human. He must be God, in other words. Human beings should look at creation and decide there must be a God who made it, a God we must answer to on some level.
Especially in our era, some might argue that reaching such a conclusion by looking at nature is not a given. After all, the prevailing alternative theories about the origins of our universe may lead someone to decide that just the opposite is true: There is no God. God does not accept that argument. This passage is especially important when viewed in context with Jesus’ comments in Matthew 7:7–8. God gives every single person enough knowledge that they should seek Him. Those who respond by seeking God will always find Him.
If human beings do not “work out” the basic nature of God from what is seen in creation, and seek Him from there, they are simply “without excuse.” They are willfully ignoring the obvious. God insists that He has made it plain to human reasoning and that to decide otherwise is to suppress the truth we know by nature.
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