Sinclair B. Ferguson

The creation account in Genesis 1 climaxes with God making man in a different way from the way he had made other creatures, making man after holding a divine council.

The creation account in Genesis 1 climaxes with God making man in a different way from the way he had made other creatures, making man after holding a divine council.

and making Him in particular as His image in order to reflect Him and to imitate Him.

and making Him in particular as His image in order to reflect Him and to imitate Him.

And so you see in the opening two chapters of the Bible that as God has created all things and filled all things,

And so you see in the opening two chapters of the Bible that as God has created all things and filled all things,

So man, as his image, is given a little garden and he's told to tend it and keep it and to fill it and indeed to extend it.

So man, as his image, is given a little garden and he's told to tend it and keep it and to fill it and indeed to extend it.

It's almost as though God wanted Adam and Eve to be able to walk with Him in the cool of the day and to discuss the things they had in common.

It's almost as though God wanted Adam and Eve to be able to walk with Him in the cool of the day and to discuss the things they had in common.

It's a beautiful picture.

It's a beautiful picture.

But you see what it means.

But you see what it means.

It means that we can never escape the revelation of God, not only because we are surrounded by it, but because in a sense we carry it around with us, even although we have defaced and deformed it.

It means that we can never escape the revelation of God, not only because we are surrounded by it, but because in a sense we carry it around with us, even although we have defaced and deformed it.

which is exactly the point that Paul makes in his sermon to the Athenians when he quotes a couple of pagan writers as saying, in God we live and move and have our being, and we are indeed his offspring.

which is exactly the point that Paul makes in his sermon to the Athenians when he quotes a couple of pagan writers as saying, in God we live and move and have our being, and we are indeed his offspring.

So that it's not only that there is no last exit from divine revelation that surrounds us,

So that it's not only that there is no last exit from divine revelation that surrounds us,