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12.3.1 Is a Cognitive Faculty Involved?
The Basic A/C Model: Theistic Belief and the Sensus Divinitatis
                 This also includes God’s continuing involvement with his creation                                
                which also applies to Plantinga’s model          God’s initiative to reveal these                      
              I have already answered this in response to Oliphint’s objection. Briefly, we can say that                    n of God’s revelation in creation         Paul’s language using words translated as ‘plain to them’ ‘clearly ’ ‘understood’ or ‘manifest’ suggest                                    text. Verse 21 states that a consequence of sin is that people “became futile in their thinking,” and t     
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                                                             things that God has made. God’s creation triggers this cognitive faculty. This produces              
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 12.3.2 What Is This Cognitive Faculty and How Does It Operate?
 























































































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