The Nature of Progressive Revelation: God Making Himself Obvious to Us
When I pray I always seem to thank God for revealing himself to us in creation, Scripture, and Christ because I am blown away that God reveals himself in ways that makes doubting his existence and who he is, for me, impossible. I freely admit I find it difficult to believe in an invisible reality, an invisible God, and an invisible life after death. At the same time, I find it impossible to believe in any of the alternatives to Christianity, especially materialism (matter is all there is). As I daily confront this difficulty, I’m always brought back to the idea of God’s revelation. Thankfully, he has not left us benighted, i.e., in a state of moral or intellectual darkness, or unenlightened. Without his revelation that is exactly what we would be, without light. And without light we run into things we can’t see, and it hurts. We wonder, why didn’t anybody tell us that was there. And God says, I did! So, what has this to do with progressive revelation? (more…)
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