Consequently, Chapter Two is predominantly designed around the subject of creation. McCabe begins by distinguishing the two senses of creation. This key difference between whether creation is something that is both made and also continuously ruled by God means the difference between sailing into the treacherous waters of deism. In order to avoid the ambiguity of the implications of the word “creation,” McCabe introduces the word “law” to instead stand for “the totality of God’s ordaining acts toward the cosmos” (15). McCabe further dissects his thesis by setting up two ways of ruling (God imposes his law either directly or indirectly) and two kinds of law used in this ruling: nature and …show more content…
McCabe cites a variety of Bible verses to prove that God speaks plainly through his works. Even when God’s law is not explicitly verbalized in a person’s life, God still pervades unconsciously through a person’s conscience. On the other end of the spectrum of how creation consciously reveals the Creator, “wisdom is ethical conformity to God’s creation” (29). Another implication of the revelation of God in creation is that the creation order is knowable, but the extent of knowability is debatable. The section concludes by pondering if God’s speech in creation (general revelation) infringes upon the sola Scriptura of divine biblical