Theology begins with God’s self-revelation. Everything we know about God first came from God. This means we only know things about him because he first taught them to us. We do not know God “as he is” in himself; we know him as he acts in history, as he has chosen to introduce himself to us. As Michael Horton explains, coming to “know” God is like meeting a stranger who has come to rescue us from the danger we did not even realize existed. This chapter explains how we know