God the Father, Mentor's Guide, MG06

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G O D T H E F A T H E R

b. Through history, Acts 14.15-17

3. God has given humankind the capacities to know of his existence, Rom. 1.18-20.

4. Knowledge of God demands a new relationship with him through Jesus Christ, not merely the intellectual study of concepts and ideas about him.

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a. 1 John 5.20

b. 2 Cor. 4.6

B. Implications for our study of God

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1. Reason and study are insufficient to discover God and his person; reason requires the illumination of the Spirit to know God.

2. We must be born again (regenerated) to know God through Jesus Christ.

a. Intellectual preparation and scientific methods alone will always be limited in theological study.

b. To study God well, you must know God personally.