St Paul uses the Epistle to the Romans as an opportunity to develop his theological vision. He opens his expostion by describing what we might call natural revelation. Ever since the creation of the world, [God’s] invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. in other words, we can learn about God even wtihout the Bible. This applies even when looking at creation from the view of current scientific theories. For example, we learn from the Big Bang that God created everything from nothing. We learn from evolution that God created things so that they would grow and develop. We learn from relativity that even things which seem different are, in fact, connected. We learn from quantum mechanics that the way things turn out are not pre-determined. Divine revelation culminating the coming of Jesus does not contradict natural revelation completes and adds to it. Divine revelation teaches that the point of creation is that the love of God will flow out to embrace even the creatures which are a gift from God.
