Apprehended Attributes Clear Clearly Creation Deity Divine Divinity Eternal Everlasting Excuse Existence Eye Fully Godhead God's Inexcusable Intelligible Invisible Making Mind Namely Nature Perceived Perfections Plainly Power Qualities Reason Render Rendered Unable Understood Visible Works World's Wrongdoing
1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being {d} understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
(d) You do not see God, and yet you acknowledge him as God by his works; Cicero.
1:20 The invisible things of him. God's attributes.
Are clearly seen. Are manifested by his works. Nature speaks of nature's God.
His eternal power and Godhead. The attributes are especially shown in his works. The earth and the heavenly bodies are effects which must be due to eternal power and divinity.
So that they are without excuse. No excuse is left for worshiping helpless idols.
1:20 For those things of him which are invisible, are seen - By the eye of the mind. Being understood - They are seen by them, and them only, who use their understanding
1:18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he has fulfilled all his obligations to God and to his neighbour; nor can any truly say that he has fully acted up to the light afforded him. The sinfulness of man is described as ungodliness against the laws of the first table, and unrighteousness against those of the second. The cause of that sinfulness is holding the truth in unrighteousness. All, more or less, do what they know to be wrong, and omit what they know to be right, so that the plea of ignorance cannot be allowed from any. Our Creator's invisible power and Godhead are so clearly shown in the works he has made, that even idolaters and wicked Gentiles are left without excuse. They foolishly followed idolatry; and rational creatures changed the worship of the glorious Creator, for that of brutes, reptiles, and senseless images. They wandered from God, till all traces of true religion must have been lost, had not the revelation of the gospel prevented it. For whatever may be pretended, as to the sufficiency of man's reason to discover Divine truth and moral obligation, or to govern the practice aright, facts cannot be denied. And these plainly show that men have dishonoured God by the most absurd idolatries and superstitions; and have degraded themselves by the vilest affections and most abominable deeds.
Clear Clearly Creation Divine Eternal Everlasting Excuse Existence Eye First Fully Godhead God's Intelligible Invisible Making Namely Nature Perceived Perfections Power Reason Rendered Unable Understood Visible World Wrongdoing
Clear Clearly Creation Divine Eternal Everlasting Excuse Existence Eye First Fully Godhead God's Intelligible Invisible Making Namely Nature Perceived Perfections Power Reason Rendered Unable Understood Visible World Wrongdoing
