Few of us realize that there are two kinds of knowledge in the world.
They have always been hostile to each other.
There is the knowledge that comes from our five senses: seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling, and feeling.
This is the source of all knowledge that comes to natural man.
The other kind of knowledge is a revelation knowledge. It comes from the Word.
Since educators have thrown the Word of God out of our schools, colleges, and universities, there is but one kind of knowledge taught in these institutions. That is the knowledge from the five senses.
This is suggestive, almost startling, when one thinks of it.
The mind of natural man has no way of knowing except through these avenues.
It is what we have heard, what we have tasted, what we have seen, or what we have smelled.
Astronomy comes through the eye. Down through the whole list of scientific knowledge, the same holds true. The man who only accepts sense knowledge will never know God, never understand anything connected with real Christianity because it belongs to a realm above his natural reason.
Christianity is a revelation and a miracle. The Bible is a miracle book.
The first chapter of Genesis gives us the miracle of creation.
My friend in the sense realm repudiates it and says, “It is not reasonable.”
I admit he is right. It is not reasonable. It is above reason.
One of the most unhappy things that theologians have ever attempted is to square the Bible with the so-called science or reasoning from the senses.
It would have been better for them if they had tried to make science harmonize with revelation.
The understanding of revelation is purely by faith.
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. (Hebrews 11:3)
You see, “we understand” by faith.
By faith, God said, “Let there be” (Genesis 1) and creation came into being. Jesus was a representative of the unseen faith of God. He walked by faith. The mighty miracles performed by Jesus were all faith miracles. The book of Acts as well as the four Gospels is a record of miracles.
The man who reads the New Testament carefully will discover that there is no place in it for human reason.
It is a miracle book.