Coming up today, Audrey, doing your mind.

Can I learn anything about God from nature?

Now, there's a huge controversy about this.

Paul says in Corinthians that the natural man does not know God.

And it would seem that that point that the apostle is precluding the possibility

of anybody getting any knowledge of God by means of nature.

Scripture is the supreme source of revelation concerning God.

But the Bible tells us that we can see God's eternal power and divine nature clearly in the created realm.

Today, on renewing your mind,

R.C. Sproul affirms the biblical truth that general revelation and natural theology are sufficient to leave us without excuse.

Today, as we now begin the actual study of the whole scope of systematic theology,

having done some introductory work in our first two sessions,

I want to begin with the subject of revelation.

Because, as I've said, Christianity is not based upon someone's speculative philosophy,

but it stands or falls as a revealed faith.

And the fundamental assertion of the Christian faith is that the truth that we embrace as Christians

is truth that has come to us from God Himself.

God who is hidden from our vision, we can't see Him with our eyes.

Nevertheless, He has removed the veil that hides Himself from us by means of revelation.

A revelation is a making plane or clear or unfolding of that which is hidden.

Now, in the study of theology, we make some distinctions about revelation,

about different kinds of revelation,

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