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Chapter 12
What can we learn from Paul’s words in Romans 1:18
knowledge about God given by God. He writes in verse 19: “What can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.” In verse 20 he speaks about of God that “have been clearly perceived.” And in the next verse, he starts his sentence with “For although they knew God...” The fact that given the presence of sin, people does not exclude that first some knowledge of God was realised in people’s minds.
God’s invisible attributes, namely his texts in the New Testament mention that Gentiles, who only have God’s revelation in
an awareness of a powerful, divine being would be compatible with Barth’s views Calvin’s views on
that “God has shown it to them” ( 1:19). It is God’s initiative to make this
WCB Theology’s Epistemological Dilemma, 143; Plasger, ‘Does Calvin Teach a Sensus Divinitatis?’
Institutes I, iii, 1, 43ff; Plantinga, ‘Replies to my Commentators,’ 254 er to the deliverable of the SD as ‘knowledge of God,’ but
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12.3 How Do People Acquire this Knowledge?
