How Can God Be Known, According To Christianity?

Question 1

For people who believe knowledge’s discovered through empirical ?, this means ? can’t be known.

Answer 1

Experience.

God.

Question 2

Christians don’t accept that ? experience and logical reasoning are the only methods of ? knowledge available to humanity.

Answer 2

Empirical.

Gaining.

Question 3

? believed the human mind has three ways of knowing God, using the analogy of an eye, the eye of:

• Flesh: knowing that incorporates sense perception: the empiricism of science (we gain knowledge about the physical world)
• ?: knowing that lets us work out mathematical and philosophical truths about the use of logic.
• Contemplation: knowing which allows us to come to a knowledge of God by going beyond the scope of sense experience, reason and gaining knowledge of God through ?

Answer 3

Bonaventura.
Reason.
Faith.

Question 4

? writes about “? ?”, seeing science through one ‘eye’ (physical world) and understands spiritual truths about God through the other.

Answer 4

Polkinghorne.

Binocular vision.

Question 5

For religious believers, God can be known not just in the sense of knowing of his existence, but personally in a ?

Answer 5

Relationship.

Question 6

Natural theology’s about gaining knowledge of God through human observation and reason, whereas ? ? about gaining knowledge through scripture and religious experience

Answer 6

Revealed theology.

Question 7

Robert ? wrote in terms of “two great books” (natural world and Bible) both created by the same ‘?’ where people could deepen their understanding and knowledge of God.

Answer 7

Boyle.

Author.