General Revelations

1. Consider the farmer in Isaiah 28:23-29, whose God-given knowledge of farming techniques comes through general revelation. Have you ever experienced anything similar- Have you ever learned how to do something through tradition, observation, experimentation, but believe the lessons come ultimately from God?

Yes, after me and my sister worked most of our life in a pizza place here in our home town I then helped my husband turn our store into to a pizza place as well.

I learned this through observation first, by watching my sister work and experimentation by her showing me how. I believe these lessons came ultimately from God because without Him I wouldn’t be here to learn them.

2. Describe what you believe to be the most important concept you have learned through general revelation, a concept that does not seem to be addressed in special revelation.

Most Christians are comfortable using general revelation to build a house or evaluate nutrition. They are often far less comfortable using information from disciplines like psychology or anthropology (also general revelation). Why do you think this is the case?

Often general revelation brings a better balance and makes it easier to balance the applications to see different points that are implied to different techniques that at least implied in some of the biblical injunctions.

5. Describe a time when your opinion about theology was changed because of what you learned from general revelation. My sister gave me a picture that she had that I liked and I put away because I didn’t know where to hang it and wasn’t sure if I really liked it or not, then I forgot about it until one day she asked me where it was and I was embarrassed to tell her I didn’t hang it.

Have you ever known someone who refused to acknowledge the truth of Scripture because it seemed to be at variance with their experience? Yes, I work now with a girl that I try and talk about the truth of Scripture and she shuts me down