Discussion Question 2: Confidence in knowing God

There are thousands of different denominations out there, all reading the same Bible. In the midst of so many disagreements, how can you confidently believe anything about God?

(Make sure you incorporate the reading from Bird in your response.)

We can confidently believe a lot about God because there is a single composer behind the symphony of Scripture. We know that there is someone behind all that we study and try to understand. We can know and see who He is not just by Scripture but many things like tradition, revelation, experience, culture etc. I don't think we will be able to know an infinite God as finite creatures but at minimum, we can have a glimpse of our creator through the avenues mentioned above.

It is interesting that in the book (page 90) Bird refers to a theologian who compares theology to nature and theologians to scientists. Bird goes on to critique this viewpoint, but I agree with an interjection. Like Bird, I think that God has divinely orchestrated Scripture as he intended. To go with the analogy of the previously noted theologian, theology may be the nature observed by the scientist, but nature has been set perfectly in logic. The scientists must reconcile their understanding of nature to produce correct "science". As the book states, our sources for Theology are scripture, tradition, nature, and experience. On top of all this, if we believe that God, the one who fashioned it all is behind our study, we can be confident in the truths we discover through him.