Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 02007 When Genesis says that God rested on the seventh day, it raises an honest question for any thoughtful reader, because Scripture is equally clear that God never grows weary. If the Almighty does not tire, why does He rest on the seventh day at all? The answer is that the rest of God…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1010 Special revelation is the particular, saving self-disclosure of God given through his mighty acts, his spoken word, the written Scriptures, and supremely through his Son Jesus, by which we come to know not only that God is but who he is and how a sinner may be reconciled to him. Where the witness…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 1009 General revelation is the knowledge of God that he makes available to every human being through the created order and through the moral witness of the conscience, quite apart from the pages of the Bible or any spoken prophetic word. It is the truth about God that reaches a farmer who has never…