I have just met a very interesting and contemporary theory. God is to be perceived by people with all their senses. In today's communities, all too often stand alone, hearing and intellectual movement in the foreground. The representative of this thesis points out that God is in all of creation and of the People can and should be perceived. Calvin already has said that the mind is not sufficient to capture God. Therefore, let the Bible be included in the sermon preparation with all the senses contribute (keyword Bibliodrama) and worship of the rich human perception into account. Art, theater and dance have to find God in the meeting room. Today, many people are very open to supernatural experiences. Since them, this approach is contrary to natural. But he also agrees with the biblical understanding of revelation?
God reveals himself, according to Reformed understanding, mainly in the Scripture. Of course, God created all things and gives himself in to recognize his work. The Westminster Confession takes the same position at the beginning of this thesis.
Although the light of nature and the works of creation and care, the goodness, wisdom and power of God to reveal to the point that they leave people without excuse, but they range from not enough to give that knowledge of God and his will, which is necessary for salvation (WB Article 1.1). can
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why it has pleased the Lord to reveal themselves at different times and in different ways to his Church and its to explain that his will and then this to better preserve and disseminate the truth and to secure creation and strengthening of the Church against the corruption of the flesh and the malice of Satan and the world altogether to trust the Scriptures. This Scripture makes most necessary, following those earlier ways in which God revealed his will to his people now stopped (on WB Article 1.1).
Today, we can gain certain knowledge about God, ourselves and the way to salvation. It has pleased God to make this safe revelation in the Scriptures. It is not found in the arbitrariness of the man as he would like to capture God. The Lord and Creator of the universe determines the way in its favor: it is His Word, the Scriptures.
course, writes Calvin assumes that the human mind can not grasp God still quite - even with the gracious revelation of Scripture. The reformer has a clear picture of the state of man. He is blind to God by sin and can not capture his creator on assets. This once again, the Westminster Confession.
While we can be the witness of the Church persuaded and led to esteem the Scriptures and to consider respectfully, even the heavenly beings of the content, the effectiveness of teaching, ... are reasons by the it proves to excess, that it is the Word of God. But still our full conviction and certainty comes from their infallible truth and its divine authority from the inner workings of the Holy Spirit, who is through and with the word witness in our hearts (WB Article 1.5).
The Holy Spirit must save the people of his blindness and help him that he aufmerkt on the word that will save him. This is also true for the people of our age who are willing to make a transcendental experience.
God has established it in His grace so that the faith is awakened by hearing his word by his Spirit. If the church is looking for other ways she moves clearly away from God's eternal pardon. That is why Luther can already sing the community, "received us, Lord, at thy word."
I must admit that I was never prepared so bad at a conference. On Tuesday morning, I knew just where we are headed - to the Netherlands. I was surprised to, in what I'm here, stumbled at the invitation of Dutch friends. Suddenly I was in the middle of pastors from all over Europe. Although my English is getting back to his limits pushed (which for me is not very surprising), it was to find very interesting and informative, what about the Reformed Church in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Poland or Ukraine . Surprisingly (at least to me) that the Reformed meet almost anywhere in very small communities (the Netherlands is probably the great exception here in Europe). 