St. Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome is his personal introduction to people who don’t know him but who, no doubt, have heard about him. He presents “the gospel he preached” to show he is not someone to fear. He begins the argument by saying that everyone, even non-Jews, are subject to God since “what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them.” In creation “divinity has been able to be understood and perceived in what God has made.” It is not pantheism to look to creation for signs of God’s presence. It is rather an act of faith in God the creator. Let us look around this beautiful world today and give glory to God.
