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God has revealed himself to all men by giving him an instinctive dependency upon truth. By this we may know him. <ref>[[Joh 14:6]] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</ref> | God has revealed himself to all men by giving him an instinctive dependency upon truth. By this we may know him. <ref>[[Joh 14:6]] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:01, 31 March 2018
The bet ב is formed by drawing a resh ר and finishing it with a lower horizontal vav ו.
ב ר
The resh ר is a revelation, the bet ב a revelation to man.
God shows himself
The Father is to us, like the water is to fish and the air to birds. We are completely immersed in him. This is why we cannot see him any more than the fish can see the water or the birds can see the air.
We cannot search him out. We can only know of him what he chooses to make known. God becoming a man, would be like the water becoming a fish to speak to fish, and like the air becoming a bird to speak to a bird. However, the fish CAN see the rocks and the seaweed and other things.
All of creation was made to communicate some things about God to us. We can see the rocks and the seaweed too. [1]
In order to be able to know that there is a God by interpreting the evidence of creation, you were created with the mechanism for doing so. We might speculate what that mechanism is, but it is more important to observe what other abilities we were created with. Consider the atheist, he is a natural born scientist:
As an infant he had the ability to gather observations through various senses. He can correlate patterns in those observations. He can identify rewards and penalties, and theorize about the correlation of his own actions with those rewards and penalties. He can experiment and adjust his behavior to maximize rewards. He does all of this without thinking about why he does it.
He has a natural instinct that the universe is rational, and that he may depend upon it when making adjustments to his theories and hypotheses. He operates on the theory that he may know truth.
By the time he is grown he gives up his science: he has chosen to believe, against all the evidence of his life, that there is no truth, and he knows nothing, all the while proclaiming the 'truth' that there is no God.
The one who declares that there is no truth relies upon the existence of truth to declare there is no God. This instinctive reliance on truth betrays the ardent atheist as a fraud.
God has revealed himself to all men by giving him an instinctive dependency upon truth. By this we may know him. [2]
References
- ↑ Ro 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
- ↑ Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
