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🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 5 minutes

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God has known himself perfectly for all eternity, and now he knows every aspect of his world perfectly. So as we come to learn and discover, we are simply thinking God’s thoughts after him.

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0:00.0	We open the week with two episodes with a guest, a friend of ours, Dr. John M. Frame,
0:09.8	who is the JD Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at Reformed Theological
0:15.1	Seminary in Orlando.
0:17.4	Dr. Frame has published more words in his lifetime than most of us will read in our
0:21.8	lifetimes and we get him for two days and no doubt he's going to hit these out of the
0:25.5	park.
0:26.5	Thank you for joining us, Dr. Frame.
0:27.5	Well, I'm not a radio personality, I'm not sure that I feel anything out of the park.
0:33.1	Stop it.
0:34.1	Just stop it.
0:35.1	Tomorrow, I have a question for you on literature, so we're leading up to that.
0:39.2	But first, you have an outstanding book coming out soon.
0:42.2	It's called A History of Western Philosophy and Theology and it releases in mid-November
0:47.8	from P and R. It's one of the most important books of 2015, I think.
0:52.5	In the book, under the section titled Antithesis in Epistemology, you write this quote,
0:57.8	we know God in the world because He has taken the initiative to reveal Himself, otherwise
1:04.8	we could have no knowledge at all.
1:10.1	Riff on this enormous reality for us for a few minutes, fundamentally, how is all knowledge
1:15.9	tied to God revealing Himself?
1:20.3	Well, God, first of all, is somebody who knows Himself, the knowledge of the Father and
1:28.1	the Son and the Spirit and the Holy Trinity for all eternity.
1:33.9	And so when God makes a world, He knows that world perfectly well because this is a
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