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🗓️ 13 September 2023
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God's revelation is not limited to the pages of Scripture. In this episode, R.C. Sproul presents the rationale for Christians to be involved in studying a wide variety of disciplines: All truth points back to the Lord.
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0:00.0 | Scripture itself tells us that beyond Scripture, God reveals Himself in and through nature. |
0:13.6 | How many of you believe that the revelation that God gives in nature is infallible? |
0:24.0 | Augustine did not believe that naked reason had the power in and of itself to climb up to eternal |
0:33.4 | truths without the aid of God's revelation. And he said that we are dependent upon God's revelation |
0:45.3 | for all of our understanding of truth, whether it be biblical truth, theological truth, |
0:52.1 | or scientific truth. Augustine argued that we are as dependent as human beings |
0:59.6 | on understanding the truths of science upon the revelation of God as the eyes are dependent upon |
1:09.4 | some source of light to see anything. We have been equipped with appropriate organs, |
1:19.6 | optic nerves and the like to be able to see things. All that we need to see is built into our |
1:29.2 | human structure, but without the external manifestation of light, we won't be able to see anything. |
1:39.4 | Therefore, Augustine said that the Christian ought to learn as much as he can about as many things |
1:47.3 | as he can, because all truth is God's truth. And the God's revelation is not limited to the pages |
1:56.8 | of Scripture, because Scripture itself tells us that beyond Scripture, God reveals Himself |
2:04.5 | in and through nature. I would trick my students with a question in the seminary when I would say |
2:13.7 | how many of you believe that biblical revelation is infallible and they would raise their hand. |
2:20.7 | And I say, how many of you believe that the revelation that God gives in nature is infallible |
2:27.0 | and they wouldn't raise their hand? I say, wait a minute. This is God's revelation. |
2:35.7 | How could His revelation be fallible? It's not fallible when it comes to the medium of Scripture. |
2:43.0 | It's not fallible if it comes to the medium of nature. We're the ones that are fallible, |
2:49.9 | not God. |
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