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sensus sensus
Reasons for Faith He also relates his view to Plantinga’s warrant terminology. If the SD is warrant. As he says: “...if the sensus sensus divinitatis t.” “The knowledge that we have need not, and does not as knowledge.”
by God to Romans 1:19b. Oliphint uses the phrase ‘internal implanting by God’ (abbreviated as analogy to the phrase of the ‘Internal Instigation of the Holy Spirit’ (hereafter 1:19). All human beings have this knowledge because they have been created in God’s He concludes: “This means that there simply are no istic belief or knowledge is absent from a person.”
The SD as Given by God
elsewhere: “it is a knowledge that God infuses into his human creatures, and continues to continue to live out their days denying or ignoring him.”
revelation. Based on Romans 1:20 he concludes that this knowledge of God “is the revelation of the character of God, given to God’s human creatures, in and through the things that are made.” This revelation occurs through God’s creation.
Reasons for Faith
Oliphint, ‘Epistemology and Christian Belief,’ 164 (emphasis Oliphint).
Oliphint, ‘Is There a Reformed Objection to Natural Theology?’ Oliphint, ‘Epistemology and Christian Belief,’ 164
Oliphint, ‘Epistemology and Christian Belief,’ 171 (emphasis Oliphint).
Reasons for Faith
Oliphint, ‘Epistemology and Christian Belief,’ 165.
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The SD as Given by God’s Revelation
