1-Revelation,pt2 Special Rev & Miracles

The late Carl F.H. Henry, an American theologian makes the point in God, Revelation, and Authority that it is God who must reveal Himself, because we, on our own, due to our sin, could never know Him otherwise. Either He has spoken, or we are forever lost in the darkness of our own speculations. Further, the Bible teaches that man does not naturally want to know God, nor does he seek God (Rom 3:11-12). Not only does man not want to know God, but he cannot know God apart from God the Son choosing to reveal Him (Matt 11:27). After all, the secret things belong to the Lord (Deut 29:29). However, God, in His grace has chosen to communicate Himself with man (Heb 1:1-2). But man worships the creature rather than the Creator because he rejects the revelation of the Creator in creation (Rom 1). The London preacher Spurgeon said, "It is impossible that there should be a God at all except the God of revelation. A god who can be fashioned by our own thoughts is no more a god than the image manufactured or produced by our own hands. The true God must of necessity be His own revealer." Scripture specifies the ways in which God reveals Himself to mankind. There is general (or natural) revelation and special (or direct) revelation. We covered the former last week and will learn of the latter at Wednesday Bible study, 6:00.