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Belgic Confession of Faith · Article 2

The Means by Which We Know God

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Türkçe

Tanrı’yı iki yolla tanırız: Birincisi, evrenin yaratılışı, korunması ve yönetimi aracılığıyla; bu evren gözlerimizin önünde duran son derece güzel bir kitap gibidir. Büyük küçük bütün yaratıklar, Tanrı’nın görünmez şeylerini — yani O’nun sonsuz kudretini ve tanrılığını — açıkça kavramamızı sağlayan harfler gibidir, elçi Pavlus’un Romalılar 1:20’de söylediği gibi. Bütün bunlar insanları suçlu olduklarını ortaya koymaya ve mazeretsiz bırakmaya yeterlidir. İkincisi, Tanrı kendisini bize, bu yaşamda O’nu tanımamız için gerekli olduğu kadar, kendi yüceliği ve bizim kurtuluşumuz için, kutsal ve ilahî Kelâmı aracılığıyla daha açık ve eksiksiz biçimde bildirir.

English

We know God by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since that universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God: God's eternal power and divinity, as the apostle Paul says in Romans 1:20. All these things are enough to convict humans and to leave them without excuse. Second, God makes himself known to us more clearly by his holy and divine Word, as much as we need in this life, for God's glory and for our salvation.

We know God by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since that universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God: God's eternal power and divinity, as the apostle Paul says in Romans 1:20. All these things are enough to convict humans and to leave them without excuse. Second, God makes himself known to us more clearly by his holy and divine Word, as much as we need in this life, for God's glory and for our salvation.

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