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An 11 page research paper that addresses various topics pertaining to the nature of God. Topics addressed include propositional and relational knowledge of God; how we come to "know" God; the names of God; the relationship between God in the Old and New Testaments. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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knowledge of God, that is a "discussion of the existence and attributes of God," is carried on strictly through the use of human reason (Hodges 1). Relational knowledge of God,
that is, the knowledge perceived by the individual as coming from a personal relationship with the Divine is referred to as "revealed" theology, which has as its founding premise that
divine revelation exists, that is, the knowledge of God that is delivered through divine revelation directly to an individual. Propositional knowledge, that is, knowledge founded upon philosophical proposition that
endeavor to prove the existence of God, are open to rebuttal. While enlightening and intellectually stimulating, if this is the sole foundation for faith than faith can be undermined by
opposing opinion. Relational knowledge, on the other hand, is grounded in personal experience or the personal experience of others, which means that it cannot be disproved through reason as it
is knowledge of what is felt and experienced by the individual. 2. How one comes to "know" God Religious experience can take a variety of forms, but in none
of them can God be directly perceived by human senses as an object, even though believers testify that there is a consistent "awareness of his presence and activity" (Hodges 101).
A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive immediacy," which interprets surroundings as
connected to the "presence and activity of the All-Agent" (Hodges 101). John Hick, a philosopher of religion, points out that all human experience is interpreted by cognition (Erickson 36). However,
what is seen can be interpreted at different levels, In explaining this, Hick offers the analogy of seeing a bird, then realizing its an eagle, then realizing its objective. Each
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