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The False Ways of Knowing God
Bobbink says there are two false ways of knowing. One is rationalism and the other is empiricism. We primarily can come to know God through how we feel about him or feelings, he says. He also takes issue with Schleiermacher's feelings of protromanticism.
Jen Wilkin, JT English, Kyle Worley, and Elizabeth Woodson talk about the doctrine of God—who God is and how God is—live from the Proclaim Truth Conference.
Questions Covered in This Episode:
- What do I mean when I distinguish between theology and theology proper?
- Let me just ask our big question right up front: “Can I know who and how God is?”
- What difficulties/weaknesses/realities complicate my ability to know who God is?
- When I come to the bible should I lay down my theological beliefs and conclusions?
- Any advice for women in churches where the pastors want the women's ministry to happen organically and resist having any sort of coordinator?
- Are the creeds a part of the canon? If not, why not say they are an imperative part of understanding the bible but they are not the bible?
- I help teach and lead a bible study at my church but the more I study God and his word the more I feel like I don’t know enough to teach. Should I stop?
- When the women in our studies see God as a cuddly bear/daddy, how would you approach this with grace and attribute to God’s holiness as well?
Helpful Definitions:
- Anthropology: Doctrine of man
- Soteriology: Doctrine of salvation
- Ecclesiology: Doctrine of the church
- Theology Proper: The doctrine of God. How can we come to know God? Who is God? How does God make himself known to us?
- Incommunicable Attributes: Things that can only be true of God.
- Communicable Attributes: Things that are true about God that can also be true about us.
- Incomprehensible: Not able to be fully understood.
- General Revelation: God reveals his divine attributes in the world.
- Special Revelation: God reveals who He is in the Word of God incarnate and the Word of God inscripturated.
- Rationalism: The quest for certainty and knowledge is sourced in reason and the mind of the individual.
- Empiricism: The quest for knowledge is sourced in sensory experience and nature.
- Romanticism: The quest for knowledge is sourced from our feelings.
- Modernity: Epistemology leads to metaphysics.
- Pre-Modernity: Metaphysics leads to epistemology.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- John 1:1-18, Hebrews 13:7, Exodus 20, Hebrews 12
- Proclaim Truth Conference
- “Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 1” by Herman Bavinck
- The Nicene Creed
- Chalcedonian Creed
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