Religion and Science
9. A Last Word
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efforts; but the historian will be suspicious, a
priori, of any presentation of this thesis that
goes on to assert that a unique and final
revelation has been given by God to my
people in my time on my satellite of my sun in
my galaxy. In this self-centered application of
the thesis that God reveals Himself to His
creatures, the historian will espy the Devil’s
cloven hoof. For there is no logically necessary
connection between the belief that God
reveals Himself to His creatures and the belief
that God has chosen out, to be the recipient of
His revelation, one creature that happens to
be precisely I myself, and that this revelation,
given exclusively to me, is a unique and a
final one (p. 132).
Here the error lies in the particular concept of
revelation, which the writer finds acceptable. Had
he not fallen into this erroneous way of thinking it
would have become clear to him that revelation and
special revelation are so closely and logically
connected that they are quite inseparable. To mod-
ern thinkers, revelation is something like a fine
picture flashing through an artist’s mind, or the
