Creation Moment 10/22/2023 - Communicating with the Creator

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; (The Creator--born of His own creation as one of them) And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, (lived a holy, sinless life) by the resurrection from the dead: (Rose from the dead) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; (The Creator) so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:3,4,20

"Unlike the gods of false religions, our God is relational—He is knowable. He has revealed Himself through what He created—this is called general revelation. But as Paul points out in Romans 1, people don’t respond as they should to this general revelation of the Creator, so it only serves to condemn them.

God went further and revealed Himself through His Word which He spoke through the prophets and apostles. Today, we have God’s Word infallibly and comprehensively revealed to us in Scripture—the 66 books of the Bible. God’s Word tells us explicitly who God is and how to have a relationship with Him.

The ancient nation of Israel had the first 39 books, which included the account of creation, how sin and death came into the world, who God was, many prophecies of the coming Christ, and the Old Testament Law. But as they found out, knowing all this was not enough to save people from the consequences of their sin.

God’s ultimate revelation to us came through the incarnation of the Son of God, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:1–4). 

---Jesus is God in the flesh, 

---and He showed us the only example of a perfectly sinless human life. 

---Having lived a sinless life, He died to pay the penalty for sin and was resurrected bodily on the third day. 

*The result is that unlike the other two types of revelation, Jesus actually saves us and brings us into personal relationship with God when we trust in Him." CMI