Shirley Caperton's Essay: The Doctrine Of General Revelation
The Doctrine of General Revelation
Shirley first began by talking a preacher on the corner witnessing to a crowd and the question was, has anyone found God. As soon as the question ask a Christian answer and said I did not know God was lost. Human beings are lost from the grace of God if they are yet in sin. She also says in fact how do we know God (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 39).
The Reformed churches explain it as the “light of nature and the works of creation”. Secondly, God is known because “it pleased the Lord, at sundry times and in diverse manners, to reveal himself and to declare his will unto his church. God makes himself known by his holy and divine Word. Another way the author says of identifying the ways of knowing God. Speaking …show more content…
One talks of the general revelation and the natural acknowledgment of God.Which way would you choose to believe? Shirley Guthrie wrote an analysis of the arguments for the Natural Knowledge of God and against the Natural Knowledge of God. The for knowledge says it would arrogant and blind to argue that there is no knowledge of God at all except in Jesus Christ and biblical revelation (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 45).
Arguments against the Natural Knowledge of God states the existence of God are not convincing, and perhaps very questionable whether an analysis of the world and of ourselves leads us to a preliminary knowledge of God. In our studies we once thought is was the plan and purpose of a divine mind in nature was in fact only a pattern some falsely read into nature with our human minds (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 47)
Paul appeals to the religion side of people not of knowledge of God however of the ignorance of God. To summarize it all together people everywhere have some idea of God. In addition, the only trustworthy knowledge sought out is God breaking into our lives in a special way that not depending on what one person tell themselves. Some guidelines are necessary for making decisions (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton
Shirley first began by talking a preacher on the corner witnessing to a crowd and the question was, has anyone found God. As soon as the question ask a Christian answer and said I did not know God was lost. Human beings are lost from the grace of God if they are yet in sin. She also says in fact how do we know God (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 39).
The Reformed churches explain it as the “light of nature and the works of creation”. Secondly, God is known because “it pleased the Lord, at sundry times and in diverse manners, to reveal himself and to declare his will unto his church. God makes himself known by his holy and divine Word. Another way the author says of identifying the ways of knowing God. Speaking …show more content…
One talks of the general revelation and the natural acknowledgment of God.Which way would you choose to believe? Shirley Guthrie wrote an analysis of the arguments for the Natural Knowledge of God and against the Natural Knowledge of God. The for knowledge says it would arrogant and blind to argue that there is no knowledge of God at all except in Jesus Christ and biblical revelation (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 45).
Arguments against the Natural Knowledge of God states the existence of God are not convincing, and perhaps very questionable whether an analysis of the world and of ourselves leads us to a preliminary knowledge of God. In our studies we once thought is was the plan and purpose of a divine mind in nature was in fact only a pattern some falsely read into nature with our human minds (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 47)
Paul appeals to the religion side of people not of knowledge of God however of the ignorance of God. To summarize it all together people everywhere have some idea of God. In addition, the only trustworthy knowledge sought out is God breaking into our lives in a special way that not depending on what one person tell themselves. Some guidelines are necessary for making decisions (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton