28 April 2025

Natural theology: a place and a purpose

For those who say natural theology is not a 'salvation' issue.

From Bray, 2012 God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology, p. 27.

"Natural theology has its importance and is taken seriously in the Bible,  but it is a preparation for the gospel and not a substitute for it. It gives people enough knowledge for people to be able to respond to the message of salvation, but not enough to work it out for themselves."

Emphasis, mine.

The days of Genesis do this by placing creation and God's direct action in the history that we are in and showing that God is close, active in history, communicative, and personal and we are connected to him by his word.