If we are to learn from nature, we will need ways of discerning where sin is at work, of separating God’s good creative will from all that is fallen and broken. These concerns lead many Protestant thinkers to envision the relationship between general and special revelation as one of unveiled continuity. Both sorts of revelation convey truth about God, and each is continuous with the other, but we are unable to see this unless God pulls back the veil that obscures nature. Because of the damaging effects of sin, God’s revelation in creation becomes clear when viewed through the corrective lens
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