God talk

  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 et al to the fore. Herman Bavinck the Master Theologian gives us some collecting points about God’s revelation of Himself: The basic ideas are listed below from pages 33 to 34 of his Reformed Dogmatics: 1.      God is a personal being. 2.     

  God and the gods Taken from; en.wikipedia.org   This is a question that I have thought about for a long time.   For the great world religions is that they all have a claim to being the exclusive truth.   In the public sphere it means accepting one and rejecting the others.   This to me is a simplistic answer and I have found no theology to do justice to this problem.   Each theologian claims the centre ground for themselves or there is a complete surrender to inclusiveness where all the religions are blended into one, such as liberalism.   These all fail to do justice to religious and theological dialogue.   Gunton saw this as a problem and in his book the One the Three and the Many gave a possible outline.   It is true that not all the religions can be right, can they?   The answer is that they cannot but perhaps each religion has something to teach another about something.   It is also a great sin to force a belief system into subjectivity of another system.   Without respect