Theological Points 2: God Speaks

Wednesday November 30, In the year of our Lord 2011
My House, Caronport Saskatchewan
Continuing to digest theology class, 6:14 PM
Weather = the same as it was last time I posted


Very much related to the last post is this. The only knowledge we have of God is God's self-revelation. The only way we can say anything about God is to repeat what God has said about himself. God speaks and we respond to his speaking. God always speaks first by word and deed.

Why does this matter? It matters because it determines everything we know and can know about God. This is why The Bible is the final authority for all matters of faith and conduct. Within its pages are the words of God, the revelation that came, not from man's ideas, but which came from God himself and were recorded.

Jesus is the definitive revelation of God (John 14:7-9; Heb 1:1-2). This means that all revelation of God comes through Christ. Any spiritual experience that denies Christ is not revelation of God. This is the bottom line and the reason why Christianity is often viewed as 'intolerant' to other faiths. Ours is an exclusive faith where Jesus is the only gateway to the Father.

In terms of 'General Revelation' where a person will look up into the heavens or behold the glory of a sunset and feel in her heart the existence of God, if it be true revelation, occurs through Christ who causes the heart to be stirred in that moment.

If we try to circumvent the path that God has created from himself to us (Jesus) and try to find our own way we are only projecting our own ideas onto the God who can not be known apart from how he makes himself known (in word and deeds culminating in Jesus). The entire Liberal approach to theology, of taking my own personal experiences and extrapolating from them what God is like is, quite frankly, completely backwards and heretical. God is known by his self-revelation only and while this will result in personal experiences does not begin with my personal experiences.

Any time come to any knowledge of God, be it intellectual, emotional, relational, grammatical, theological, philosophical, or anything at all, it is because God first spoke and is at that moment speaking.