Convinced Christians, of course, cannot agree with this kind of thinking. To be a Christian is to believe that it is possible to know God. More than that, it is to believe that God has made it possible for us to know him by revealing himself to us. This special (as opposed to the revelation of God in the created order of which Paul speaks in Romans 1:18–20) revelation began about four thousand years ago, and was initially connected with the history of the people of Israel. This history, Christians
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