What Can We Know about God?
Overview
Jesus himself said that knowing God is an essential part of salvation. We must know who God is, and the way to know God is to learn what he has revealed about himself. In What Can We Know about God?, Dr. R. C. Sproul unfolds Scripture’s teachings on the nature, will, and attributes of God, presenting a glorious picture of our great Creator and Savior.
Top Highlights
“Theologically speaking, incomprehensible does not mean that we cannot know anything about God but rather that our knowledge of Him will always be limited. We can have an apprehensive, meaningful knowledge of God, but we can never, not even in heaven, have an exhaustive knowledge of Him; we cannot totally comprehend all that He is.” (Page 5)
“ finitum non capax infinitum, which means ‘the finite cannot grasp the infinite.’” (Page 5)
“The ultimate difference between God and other beings lies in the fact that creatures are derived, contingent, and dependent. However, God is not dependent. He has the power of being in and of Himself; He does not derive it from something else. This attribute is called God’s aseity, from the Latin a sei, meaning ‘from oneself.’” (Page 34)
“God is described in human terms in certain instances in the Bible because it is the only way man knows to speak about God.” (Page 7)
“so theology is the study of the word or logic of God Himself.” (Page 3)
- Title: What Can We Know about God?
- Author: R. C. Sproul
- Edition: First edition
- Series: The Crucial Questions Series
- Volume: 27
- Publisher: Reformation Trust
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: God (Christianity)
- ISBNs: 9781567698381, 9781567698886, 9781567698893, 1567698387, 1567698883, 1567698891
- Resource ID: LLS:WHTCNWKNWGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:46:59Z
R. C. Sproul (1939– 2017) was a respected teacher, theologian, pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries where he served as executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He taught at several colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He served as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, in Sanford, Florida. Sproul’s teaching can be heard daily on the ‘Renewing Your Mind’ radio broadcast which plays in over 40 countries.
Sproul wrote over 70 books and articles including the classic The Holiness of God and several theological articles in Tabletalk magazine.