by jimwalton » Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:53 am
Much earlier in the thread I said, "The only way we know anything about God is because he/she/they reveals himself to us. We cannot (usually) perceive God with our senses or with scientific experiments. The knowledge of God is not that kind of knowledge, just as the determination of true guilt in a court of law is neither a sensory nor a scientific pursuit. So we have to go by revelation and experience as well as evidence. As we observe evidences for God in nature, by His revelation in the Bible, and by our experiences it becomes reasonable to conclude that God is a moral being. I can't be mistaken because I am following the trail of the revelation, which is unequivocally the goodness and righteousness of God. The revelation takes precedence over my perspectives, which are important but subjective. My subjective perceptions have to be weighed against the authoritative revelation. ... What I said is that we can know about God from the Bible, from our experiences, and from evidence. Essentially they all fall under the category of revelation. God reveals himself to us generally in nature and in science. He reveals himself specially to us in the Bible. And He reveals himself occasionally and specifically to us through our experiences."