which God communicates true facts and principles to human beings.35 This revelation of truth is foundational and includes (a) God’s creation36 in each of its dimensions, (b) the Holy Scriptures, and (c) Jesus Christ, “God with us.”37 These “words” of God provide an ascending order of revelation in which later revelations do not displace the earlier avenues, but rather complement each form with richer meaning. In the Christian worldview, for example, we recognize that the intrusion of sin has distorted
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