Episode Summary:
Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss if you can know God truly.
Questions Covered in This Episode:
Is God too mysterious to truly know?
Why is the emergent church problem coming up again? Why is it happening again? What is a valid response?
Why are you not convinced by the argument that people don't need their Bibles and they can just come to Jesus?
What are the true sources of knowledge of God?
“Don’t put God in a box…?”
How does cultural diversity play into this conversation?
Helpful Definitions:
General Revelation: God makes himself known in creation.
Special Revelation: God has made himself known in Christ and in Scripture.
Accommodation: We can know who God is because He accommodates Himself to our ways of knowing.
Transcendent: God is wholly other, infinite, and set-apart.
Immanent: God is near and personally accessible.
Archetypal Knowledge: A kind of knowledge only God can have of Himself. Only God can truly know God.
Epistemological Grace: It is gracious that you can know God because He has graciously given Himself to you.
Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
Romans 11, John 5:37-40, 1 Corinthians 2:10, Acts 17, Revelation 5
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