God is the center and point of everything. How do we see this God? How do we know him?

How Do We See God and Come to Know Him?

ANSWER

We see God by the light of his revelation, not by our imagination. God reveals his character and purposes through his Word and works.

THE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER PROTAGORAS SAID, “Man is the measure of all things.” This old proverb seems like common sense to many people today. We set the standard. We determine morality. We reject the idea of a cosmic order to which we must conform, as if there could be one story of reality that must be true for all. Instead of looking to God to define the world for us, the individual constructs reality. This is an important aspect of the modern secular vision of life: we don’t find meaning out there; we create meaning in here. If people choose to believe in God, that’s fine because God is whoever we imagine God to be.

The Bible points us in a different direction—toward God’s revelation of himself. And the Bible presents us with a choice: we can either seek to interpret the world through the story told in the Scriptures or through the story of self. These two visions are rivals, offering fundamentally different ways of understanding reality and human nature. They give different answers to questions about the origins of the world, the nature of humanity, the ultimate purpose of life, the source of moral values, and what happens after death. 

The story told in the Scriptures begins with creation. The Bible tells us about God’s relationship with humanity, our fall into sin, redemption through Jesus Christ, and the ultimate restoration of all things. In contrast, the story of the self relies on natural causes to explain our origins. It emphasizes human autonomy and the notion that we can solve most or all of our problems through science and technology.

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