Instead, Paul addresses a much larger point. “Is Paul telling his autobiography, pre- or post-conversion?” is the wrong question to ask of the text. What, then, is Paul’s point?
“Moreover, since man cannot of himself discover God and know Him, it was necessary that God should reveal Himself. Without such a self-revelation on the part of God it would be utterly impossible for man to enter into religious relationship to Him. God did reveal Himself, and in His self-revelation determined the worship and service that is well-pleasing to Him.”
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
“This general revelation never has been exclusively natural, but always contained an admixture of the supernatural. Even before the fall God revealed Himself to man supernaturally in the covenant of works. And in the course of the history of revelation God frequently revealed Himself in a supernatural way outside of the sphere of special revelation, Gen. 20:3 ff.; 40: 5 ff ; 41:1 ff.; Judg. 7:13; Dan. 2:1 ff.”
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
“God’s very existence is covenantal: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit live in unceasing devotion to each other, reaching outward beyond the Godhead to create a community of creatures serving as a giant analogy of the Godhead’s relationship.”
― Introducing Covenant Theology
― Introducing Covenant Theology
“The miracles of Scripture, too, culminate in the incarnation, which is the greatest and most central miracle of all. In Christ, who is the absolute miracle, all things are restored and creation is brought back to its pristine beauty, Acts 3:21.”
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
“Religion is concerned with man’s relation to God, and man has no right to determine the nature of this relation. It is God’s prerogative to specify how man should be related to Him, and He does this in His divine Word.”
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
― Manual of Christian Doctrine
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