The Invisible Things Of God ... Are Clearly Seen!

Common Sense Commentary:  "For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse." Rom.1:20.  This marvelous verse says that God has created some infinite, eternal things that are impossible for us to see with our physical eyes ... being "invisible" to human eyes and human brains.  But those things may be spiritually "understood" by observing "the things he has MADE ..." even to the ultimate .... "His eternal POWER and GODHEAD" ... This being true, that God's Created Universe so "clearly" reflects the God who "made" it that we are all, "without excuse". 

I....  "The invisible things of God..."  TIME ... SPACE ... QUANTITY ... HIS ETERNAL POWER ... HIS ETERNAL GODHEAD.  (a) Time (eternity) = Time is invisible, past, present and future. Eternity is infinite. It has no beginning and no ending.  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Gen.1:1.  The heaven and earth had a beginning but not TIME and not GOD.  "And God said, let US make man in OUR  image, after OUR likeness ..." Gen.1:26. First reference to the Holy Trinity.  All three, Father, Son and Holy Spirit were involved in creating man. (b) Space (into infinity) = Space is invisible. Only what is in space is visible as far as we are capable of seeing. Here on earth, we think in terms of up, down, north, west, east and south.  In outer space there is no such thing. All directions are up to infinity. We point up and on the other side of the earth they point in the opposite direction as up.
(c)  Quantity (the infinity of numbers or amounts) Geometrically, indefinably great in number or amount as in infinitely distant in miles, millions, billions, trillions quadrillions and so on forever... in light years of travel distance or numerically in grains of sand or stars. "The host of heaven cannot be numbered." Jer.33:22.

II...  "From the creation of the world are clearly seen ...."  Ever since Adam and Eve saw the first sunrise and sunset, they began to understand just a tiny bit about time and space and quantity, past and present and future.  Since they first gazed into the day sky and then into the night sky, they realized just a fraction of the vastness of space.  Gazing up at innumerable stars, they understood "clearly" just a glimpse of innumerable quantity.  They had to know, "God did that".  So, how then did they "clearly see" something of the "invisible things of God" ? ...... Read on....

III..  "By the things that God made...." The sun .... rising and setting (earth rotating), the innumerable stars, the Milky Way, the trees, the fruit with tiny seed containing innumerable descendant trees and fruit after it's own kind. If time, space and conditions allowed, that first peach tree would compound its number into infinity ... forever.  They saw the perfect balance of their own bodies and all of God's creation so that they  were "without excuse" when they disobeyed God concerning the tree of knowledge.  They saw "clearly" and "understood by the things that God had made". 

IV..  "Even his eternal power ...."  Now we look even beyond the infiniteness of Time, Space and Quantity to the Infinite and Eternal Creator of these infinite things.  There is an obvious law that nothing or no one can create anything greater than itself.  The infinitude of our eternal Creator GOD requires the infinity of TIME, past, present and future.  God's earthly revelation of himself in Jesus Christ is declared to be "Alpha and Omega, First and Last, Beginning and Ending, He who IS and WAS and IS TO  COME",  Timeless, Eternal, Past, Present and Future. See Rev.1:8 & 22:13.  Jesus said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Matt.28:18.  Not only is his POWER infinite in its inexhaustible Omnipotence but it is also infinite in its existence ... eternity past and eternity future into infinity.
He who IS !!!  The eternally present God (YHVH) "He who IS"

V...    "Even his Godhead ...." is clearly seen in his creation.  The "Godhead" is simply the Holy Trinity.  "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one." 1Jn.5:7.   Clearly, He is a Triune God even as he made us "in his image and likeness".
We are a triune creation of body, mind and spirit.  We do not "have" a soul, we are a soul.  "God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Gen.2:7. Time, Space and Quantity are infinitely Triune even as the universe is full of triune creations, a reflection of their infinite triune Creator. 

VI..  "So that they are without excuse ...."  God has so created the world and universe, that anyone who observes it, with an open mind, will be compelled by what he sees, to seek its Creator God and is left with no excuse if he doesn't. "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jer.29:13

"The heavens DECLARE the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork." Psm.19:1.

"The heavens DECLARE his righteousness (rightness) and ALL the people SEE his glory." Psm.98:6.  ...... "So that they are without excuse..." Rom.1:20. 

I am without excuse .... and You are without excuse.

Pass it on. RB