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If God is the creator, designer, and lawgiver, He speaks to us in three forms. Identify these and share how you have observed this to be true.
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The deposed royalty argument presents the whole Christian worldview in a single argument. It can be used in academic settings as well as in sermons. it explains who we are as human beings, how we got here, and how we should live.
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He made us in his image, so we also have the desire to create in various ways. He speaks to us through this desire. We are designed like him, with a conscience and the desire for relationship; he speaks to us through these similarities. He has created the moral code that we all carry in us inherently, and he speaks to us through our shared innate knowledge of this code. I have observed all of these things in my life, but especially the desire to create. I am an artistic type, and I find joy in creating something beautiful simply for the sake of doing so.
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Seeing God not only as designer, creator, or lawgiver has the whole Christian story in mind. God speaks to us through his Spirit, and his Word, and sovereignty. I know that God has worked things for God in my life. I know how I should live through his word.
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God is creator. The earth, galaxies, etc., could not just come from nothing. Someone had to create these objects. Nothing comes from nothing.
God is designer. He has created and designed human beings in His image. We are different than all other living things. We can reason, think logically, and care for not only our own species but also for all living things in the world.
God is the law giver. Without an absolute moral standard, there would be anarchy and chaos. It is only because of sin that we have great difficulties and challenges which often lead to anarchy, chaos, wars, death, and the like. If we truly followed God’s laws, without the influence of sin, and there are times when we have glimpses of this, we really can see Him at work and feel His peace and presence. -
He speaks to us as a creator through his creation, as a designer also through his creation and through creating us as his image and likeness, and as a lawgiver through his word and creating us as his image and likeness.
I have observed these three forms in every aspect of the creation from the particle level to the universe level, everything works in a synchronous way. I have observed them in the function of the human body and in the guilt when we know something we are doing is wrong.
