There's no place in this universe where the knowledge of God the Father has failed to penetrate. And everybody receives that knowledge, and everybody twists it and distorts it. And so everyone is guilty before God. And they can't claim ignorance as an excuse.

When sharing the gospel, has anyone ever challenged you stating that if what you shared was true, it wouldn't be fair.

Just consider the innocent person living in an unreached part of the world.

Surely God wouldn't condemn

that person to hell when they've never heard of Jesus. How would you respond to such an

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So what is general about general revelation, and why do we need special revelation?

Here's Dr. Sproul.

When we use that language, general revelation and special revelation, the distinction is really twofold.

The revelation that comes through nature is general in two senses.

In the one sense, it gives us information about God that is knowledge in general, that he is, that he is eternal power, that he is deity, that he has

wisdom, et cetera. But we don't get the particulars, the details of the character of God

revealed to us in nature the way we receive it in sacred scripture. So the data or the information of general revelation

is general. But also it's called general revelation because the audience is general. That is the

whole world of inhabited beings are the recipients of this self-disclosure of God.

Everybody is open to and receives general revelation.

That's why Romans 1 is so important.

You know, one of the questions I get more often than any other question, and you've heard

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