CAN WE KNOW GOD?

1. Can we know God?

a) If there is a God, we can ask four questions about Him.

i) Could He make Himself known?

@1. The word God means "The Powerful One." As men we can talk to one another. I can tell you what I am thinking. God can do the same. He would not create beings who can do what He Himself cannot do. What would be God's reason for creating people if He cannot make Himself known to them?

ii) Should He make Himself known?

@1. God made man able to know right and wrong. God Himself knows what is right and what is wrong and He expects man to do the right and not do the wrong. Therefore He must tell us what is right and what is evil. He would certainly not punish men for doing evil unless He told us what is evil.

iii) Would God want to make Himself known?

@1. We have seen that God can reveals Himself if He wants to. But why would He want to? First of all, so that man would know what is good, and secondly, so that many would know and love God. He created man so that He could show us His love and righteousness.

iv) Did God make Himself known?

@1. If He did, how did He do it and where? What is God like? What does He want me to do? These are very important questions.

@2. The answer is, God has made Himself known in the Bible. The Bible tells us that it is the Word of God. There are also other books, some old, some new, that say the same thing, but there is nothing to prove that these other books are really the Word of God.