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It is because He is the living God, that we can speak of His attributes without loss.
Justice, mercy, love, faithfulness--these attributes indicate a Person; they could not
possibly be applied to a Power, or a Principle. In the O.T. the revelation of God as a
Person is principally enshrined in the great name "I AM". In the N.T. His Personality is
brought nearer in the title "Father", and is given an outline in the life and work of the
Son. There can be no clearer testimony to the glorious Personality of the Creator than the
final revelation we receive in the Word, the relationship of Father to Son. In these terms
language is exhausted.
Let others speak in their darkness of "The Unknowable", "The First Great Cause",
"The Power not ourselves that makes for righteousness". For our part, let us glory in the
grace that has illuminated our darkness, and revealed the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ.
#8.
Jesus Christ is Lord.
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If man be left without a revelation, there is no way in which he can discover the truth
about creation and the Creator, except by patiently sifting the evidence of might, wisdom,
and benevolence to be found in earth, sea, and sky. This testimony must necessarily be
partial, owing to the frailty of human investigation. Wild guesses may be mistaken for
truths, and marvelous theories may be built upon sand. For ourselves, however, we
possess in the Scriptures the written revelation of God, and, while this revelation does not
attempt to answer all the questions that men of science or philosophy may put, it does
speak in no uncertain language of creation and the Creator, and we must examine this
testimony before we pass on to other related themes.
First of all we observe what the Scriptures say concerning the Creator Himself. God
is the Creator of heaven and earth, the sea and "all that in them is". This is the testimony
of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen. 1: 1).
"Worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters"
(Rev. 14: 7).
God as Creator is the rightful Object of worship for the creature. When Isaiah rebukes
Israel for their idolatry, and seeks to expose its utter folly, he says:
"Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the
beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a
tent to dwell in . . . . . To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things, that bringeth