How revelation is a way of knowing?
Think about sports.
Bill Belichick.
Why do the pros and famous people think that he made a bad choice when the facts show that he made the right choice?
Bad choices made by bad arguments.
Think about God.
What can you trust about God?
There are people who want you to know about God but does not have your interest in their hearts.
Not all claims to Revelation are valid, but does that mean none are?
If there is a God, we would expect for God make himself known.
Can we have knowledge of God, or is faith disconnected from knowledge?
Revelation: Seeing the divine in the human.
Natural revelation vs. Special revelation:
Natural revelation: is how God revelas Himself through nature and reason.
Special revelation: is the things God does in history.
The Passion of Christ, the scourging of Christ scene:
Can you see "God" here?
Some people see Jesus giving His life for us.
Others see the gruesome, violence.
Authenticating Revelation:
Revelation brings with it, its own authentication.
Abraham sacrificing Isaac.
Did it out of the immediacy of God coming to him, thus he doesn't question what he was told to do.
But this is dangerous, so..
1.It has to match the character of God.
2.We have to trust a community around us.
If you have mentors and wise people around you to decide.
3. Your preparation to receive God's revelation.
The preparation of the individual
(Training of the Eyes)
What you train your eyes to look for your probably not going to see other things that you don't train.
The mystical tradition: to preceive God through prayer. That God will only come to you by His own choice and there's nothing you can do.
Our task is to stand where God is shooting. We have no control of the shooting; when, where, how. We can place ourselves in a postion to receive.
Conclusion:
I have never been more open...
I have never been more skeptical...
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