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. In history<br />

Acts 17:24-27<br />

"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord<br />

of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.<br />

25 And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything,<br />

because He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.<br />

26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should<br />

inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them<br />

and the exact places where they should live. 27 God did this so that<br />

men would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find<br />

Him, though He is not far from each one of us."<br />

c. In conscience<br />

Romans 2:14-16<br />

"(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature<br />

things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even<br />

though they do not have the law, 15 since they show that the<br />

requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their<br />

consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing,<br />

now even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when<br />

God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares."<br />

"It is the presence in man of this sense of right and wrong, of this<br />

discriminative and impulsive something, that constitutes the revelation<br />

of God."<br />

(Thiessen, Lectures, 10)<br />

d. Its limitation<br />

General revelation can reveal the existence of God;<br />

suggest some of His attributes (power, majesty, glory,<br />

goodness) but it cannot save. This requires further<br />

"special revelation."<br />

31

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