Cornelius Van Til on the Relationship Between Man, God and His Creation
Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: Cornelius Van Til, Creation, Man, Revelation | Posted On Monday, March 28, 2016 at 5:30 AM
"Moreover, because man is created in the image of God, we may say that he has the revelation of God's presence built into his constitution. His knowledge of God is innate, in the sense that his own constitution reflects to himself the presence of God.
And this innate knowledge as revelation of God is correlative to the revelation of God in man's environment. Thus man's knowledge of God never operates independently of the knowledge he acquires from observation of his environment.
Still further, man's knowledge of God through observation of his own constitution and his knowledge of God through his study of his environment do not function independently of God's direct person-to-person covenantal communication.
Thus the whole of man's relation to God, and indirectly the whole of man's relation to his created environment, is a person-to-person, a covenantal affair. Man is he who as God's image bearer answers to God. He answers to God. He answers to God always and everywhere."
Cornelius Van Til
Though I don't follow a Reformed approach, Van Til's words here remind me of the amazing love that God so lavished on us by creating a place specifically designed for us to live in abundance and in which we would worship Him. Van Til quote leads to the conclusion, at least for me, that humans are created with the rest of creation to be in sweet communion with our Creator, and ourselves and the rest of creation have within ourselves that which points to God the Creator but also that humans can know God the Creator and have a loving and worshipful relationship with God the Creator.