statement defines the limits of what some theologians call ‘natural revelation’. God speaks in and through the created world, ‘nature’, but this revelation does not bring a saving knowledge of God to human beings. Indeed, it confirms them as being under the wrath of God, since ‘although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened’ (Rom. 1:21). It is of paramount importance to understand that in