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Weis,
The Psalmist said, The heavens do declare the glory of God. I think BT has Blaise Pascal's mindset in this....
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, his eternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.
It is to be observed that the pagans of whom St. Paul is speaking are not blamed for their ignorance of supernatural revelation and the Mosaic law, but for failing to preserve or for corrupting that knowledge of God and of man's duty towards Him which nature itself ought to have taught them. Indeed it is not pure ignorance as such they are blamed for, but that wilful shirking of truth which renders ignorance culpable. Even under the corruptions of paganism St. Paul recognized the indestructible permanency of germinal religious truth (cf. Rom., ii, 14, 15).
As a note......the constellations of the Zodiac and the 36 smaller constellations associated with them do preach the everlasting Gospel in pictorial form. When the Magii sought Yeshua out.....it was because they were able to discern what the heavens were telling them. They had learned this from the teachings of Zororaster, who himself had sat at the feet of Daniel the prophet!
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