Peace be to you.

Looking back over our previous lessons, we have come to some such conclusions as these.

First of all, our reason is capable of knowing God.

By looking out upon the visible things of the world, we come to know the invisible God,

his power and his wisdom.

Something of his power is shown,

for example, in the mountains,

and we see his beauty in the sunset,

his purity in a snowflake. But though reason is able to know something about

God and his nature, it cannot know everything. We look on a painting. As we study it, we can

divine and guess to some extent.

Perhaps the era or the century in which it was painted?

The style of the artist?

We may guess also something of his technique and his power with the brush and paints.

But we could look on that painting from now until the crack of doom and never know the inmost

thoughts of the artist.

If we were to know those, you would have to tell us.

And so we look upon creation and we can reason to some understanding of God, but we cannot

know his inmost thoughts.

If we were ever to know those, God would have to reveal them to us.

That brings up the question.

Well, how would we know that he ever revealed himself to us?

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