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The Basic A/C Model: Theistic Belief and the Sensus Divinitatis
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Paul’s comments about other gods in his speech in Athens (see Acts 17:22
The awareness that a powerful divine being exists is a manifestation of this theistic belief, even though people form completely wrong and misguided ideas about who this being is. Such belief is true and may have warrant, even though people suppress this belief and/or use it in a completely wrong and misguided way by replacing it with some form of idolatry.
Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue
WCB, 210; see also Rik Peels, ‘Sin and Human Cognition of God.’
The Christian Faith ‘Referring to, Believing in, and Worshipping the Same God: a Reformed View.’
WCB
Rik Peels reaches a similar conclusion; see Peels, ‘Sin and Human Cognition of God.’
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