Sentences with phrase «special revelation»

He never claims that general revelation can prove the additional and indispensable truths of special revelation; he only claims that rejection of the former prevents reception of the latter.

He may have gained his insight from special revelation, but he is asking that it be accepted on its own merit as illuminating the human situation.

First, there are those who buy into what's called special revelation.

Special revelation goes further by telling us how to solve that problem.

Yet the balance between this general and special revelation varies depending upon the particular strand of tradition.

Many people today talk about receiving special revelations from God and understanding hidden mysteries.

Goodman argues that human reason, unaided by special revelation, can teach us much about God» including a basic understanding of what He requires of us in our practical conduct.

This teaching from God is carried out through conscience, creation, the convicting and convincing work of the Holy Spirit, and through special revelation such as that found in Scripture.

The believer who accepts God's special revelation for the gift is is, and seeks to discover truths from God's natural revelation, in the deserved humility of our weaknesses is the true scientist indeed.

3:11), but God's special revelation eludes him.

On the other hand, I have been driven, willy - nilly, to recognize that theology can not get on without special revelations, either.

That is, general revelation is congruent with special revelation, but one can not derive the covenant from creation.

Moreover, it still functions even after that special revelation has occurred.

General revelation is historically antecedent to the special revelation that each community respectively claims as its own basic norm.

This list is divided into general revelation and special revelation.

These verses are intensely obscure; the commentaries offer little help; neither I nor anyone I know has received a special revelation explaining the text.

Open to the divine through play, the modern person can continue on to experience the reality of God through his special revelation centering in the Exodus and in Jesus Christ.

This starting point, although historically formed, has a much wider acceptance than has special revelation, being acceptable to many who consciously reject that revelation.

What has just been said indicates that special revelation can not constitute the sole basis of our knowledge of God.

We must, therefore, oppose the current efforts to re-Christianize the public orders and to legislate the will of the churched upon the unchurched, as though Christians have a special revelation for the political and social conditions of life today.

The law and commandments of God are revealed through these common created structures of existence and function apart from and in tension with the special revelation of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In this case, God decided, as a result of His friendship with Moses, to bless Moses with a special revelation of Himself.

The method advocated here is also apparently at variance with the idea of «special revelation» in the Jewish and Christian tradition.

«Special revelation» means that God does not make himself known primarily in the general experiences of mankind, but in particular critical historical happenings of unusually great significance.

Maybe God's special revelation of Himself to Abram is one such example in Scripture.

This sounds like a claim to a special revelation, but more probably it refers to the tradition handed down from Jesus himself through the apostles.

As Bernard Ramm put it a generation ago, «propositional revelation» is an unhappy expression because «it fails to do justice to the literary, historical and poetic elements of special revelation.»

The saddest thing is that people believe they should give more money because God gave a special revelation to the pastor.