Looking for insight and discussion on verses regarding general revelation that suggest an active agent.
My focused point for this thread is the question: Does the Bible teach/suggest that God is the active agent in general revelation?
The debate here, as far as I intend, is not the question on whether mankind can go searching and find the fingerprints of God through His creation. Or the question on whether we can know of God through deliberation upon the grandeur. But does the Bible suggest that God is the active agent? And if so, what implications does this have?
Active agent here is "God" by stating "God has shown it to them". Appears to assert it has been shown and does not say it has been placed to be found (active agent would then be man through searching). Not suggesting man cannot search, only that the active agent in this verse appears to be God not man.Rom 1:19 "For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them".
Here in Psalms 19:1-4, the active agent is the “voice” (Psa 19:4) that “declares” (Psa 19:1), “proclaims” (Psa 19:1), and “pours out speech” (Psa 19:2).Psa 19:4 “Their voice goes out through all the earth” (Psa 19:4).
Here the active agent appears to be God that actively gave good through experiences of “rains” and “fruitful seasons” (Act 14:17)Acts 14:16 “did not leave himself without witness".
Not a traditional natural revelation verse but, here wisdom is an active agent that is crying “aloud” and raising “her voice” in the public streets.Prov 1:20 “Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice”.
Here the active agent is the beasts that will “teach you”, the birds that will “tell you”, the fish that will “declare to you” (Job 12:8)Job 12
7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
8 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
My focused point for this thread is the question: Does the Bible teach/suggest that God is the active agent in general revelation?
The debate here, as far as I intend, is not the question on whether mankind can go searching and find the fingerprints of God through His creation. Or the question on whether we can know of God through deliberation upon the grandeur. But does the Bible suggest that God is the active agent? And if so, what implications does this have?