{"id":1931,"date":"2024-07-30T01:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T01:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:35:26","slug":"c6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c6\/","title":{"rendered":"6 : The Revelation of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1931\" class=\"elementor elementor-1931\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d19a26 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4d19a26\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-edf864a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"edf864a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c5\/\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/autoplay\/\">Continuous Play<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c7\/\">Next<\/a><\/p><p><em><span class=\"top_description\">When God speaks, we must listen<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\">God exists whether or not men choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces the thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God. Many people are unwilling to do this. Most of those who take refuge in atheism or agnosticism do so because it is a convenient escape from the stern reality that man is accountable to his Creator. It is usually not so much a case of \u201cI cannot believe\u201d as it is a case of \u201cI do not want to believe.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>I know only two ways by which God\u2019s purpose and God\u2019s person may be known. First there is the process of reason. As a good detective can, for example, tell you many things about my skills, habits and character just by examining something I may have made or handled, so much can be learned about God by a careful examination of the universe, the work of His hands.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/>But the detective who examines only what I make can never say that he knows me. He may know some things about me, but before he can say that he knows me, there must be a process of revelation: I must communicate with him. I must tell him what I think, how I feel and what I want to do. This self-revelation may be in conversation, in writing, or in some other way. Only then does it become possible for him to know me. Just so, if God is ever to be known and His thoughts, desires and purposes perceived, He must take the initiative and make at least a partial revelation of Himself to men.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\">We recall again the famous words of Zophar to Job. \u201cCanst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than hell; what canst thou know?\u201d (Job 11:7-8). But we thank God, He has revealed Himself.<br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"main_content\"><br \/><i>Thought: How well do you know God? And, does He know you?<br \/>Prayer: Help me, O God, to know You as revealed in Your Word.<\/i><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?p=109\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?page_id=27\">Continuous Play<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?p=119\">Next<\/a><\/p><hr \/><p><audio controls=\"controls\"> <source src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/007_Chpt 006.ogg\" type=\"audio\/ogg\" \/> <source src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/007_Chpt 006.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/> <strong>Your browser doesn&#8217;t support this player. Please use Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Opera or Chrome.<\/strong> <\/audio><\/p><p><span class=\"audio_description\">This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"editor_note\">Edited by Dr SH Tow<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Reason Why Audio CD\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/cd_cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Reason Why Audio CD\" \/>Please note that the last paragraph of some chapter texts may not be present in the audio tracks.<\/p><\/div>\n        \t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous | Continuous Play | Next When God speaks, we must listen God exists whether or not men choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces the thoughtful person &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6 : The Revelation of God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reason-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}