God talk

  Last time we looked at how God reveals himself.   Bavinck moves on and then talks about the incomprehensibility of God in Christian Theology.   However, I have touched on this is past blogs and may return to it later.   Today I want to focus on epistemology in relation to the Divine (epistemology= the study of knowledge).   This is a very important topic and although I am not an expert it is the grammar of all sciences.    I took this photo when the fog was on the move.   Whatever science we look at there has to be foundations on how we perceive the real world and so forth.   Yet for all intents and purposes various scientific branches (by the way science comes from Scientia which means knowledge) will have their own game rules.   I sometimes heard Colin Gunton at KCL university mention Coleridge and I used to wonder why.   After all Coleridge was a poet.   For me Poets strung words together to give beautiful messages but w...

  To truly know and understand anything about God, it has to come from God.   The infinite has to break into our time and place.   We are not talking about ‘effects of’ but rather relationship and covenant.   Since the beginning of time the Bible gives us various covenants. ·         Adamic covenant ·         Noahic Covenant ·         Abrahamic covenant ·         Mosaic covenant ·         Davidic covenant ·         Christ’s covenant.     Before writing there was God Our God is a personal and living God.   We see this through various visitations of God through the centuries.   John Owen in his Biblical Theology (Historical theology) goes into detail on these aspects, and this was before the new learning that brought Hegel, Kant ...