Re: Romans 1:20

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From: "wgreen8" <wgreen8@god4science.com>
To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: Romans 1:20

> Thanks for your input, George. Paul writes in vs. 21 that "they knew
> God."
> It would seem that though Christ is the only full revelation of God, that
> there was natural revelation of some of God's characteristics before
> Christ.
> Would you agree with this?

Who are "they"? Are we to think that every person (or every person before
hearing torah &/or gospel) in the development his/her individual life has a
true knowledge of God & then deliberately distorts or misinterprets it? I
don't think that's the case & I see no reason to say that that's what Paul
meant. I think it much more likely that he had in mind the origins &
development of humanity, which of course he understood in terms of the early
chapters of Genesis.

& then what characteristics are we talking about? The commonly stated
"attributes" of God have the potential to produce idols if they are not seen
in the context of the cross.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
 
Received on Wed Jul 20 07:57:13 2005