Romans 11:35, Knowing Our Humble Position in God’s Universe

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Romans 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

God is the uncaused first cause! No one is before Him and nothing that we know is not received from His good hand. The Apostle Paul quotes Job 41:11 to present this truth, “Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.” 

The Biblical thinking about man’s uniqueness stands in sharp contrast to much thinking that portrays man as just another animal, as a product of the theory of evolution. The Bible tells us that man is created in the image of God. He is the apex of God’s creation. When God created the universe, the earth was the focus. When God created the earth, the man was the focus. He made the earth a most habitable paradise before He made man and place in there to enjoy His creation.

The creative purpose of God is to enable the sons of men enjoy the fellowship with His Creator. It was a relationship of greatest joy for man to commune and fellowship with His Creator, until the fall.

Only man in all of God’s creation possesses the communicable attributes of God and fellowships with Him like no other of His creation. The angels are not made in God’s image, only man is!

Alas, the fallen man rejects His Creator. This is the sad testimony of the world’s most renowned Physicist, an atheist:

“When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe, and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; there is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.”― Stephen Hawking (World No. 1 Physicist, an atheist)

May God opened his spiritual eyes!