Dr. John Bergsma

Look at all the things it says.

It talks about not being angry against your brother.

It talks about forgiveness.

It talks about adultery, divorce, prayer, fasting, almsgiving.

It's very practical.

So I resist, I think we talked about this before, like really resist these attitudes towards the Christian faith that say, well, it only comes down to this.

And like, as long as we get this, I guess the implication is we don't have to worry about the rest of the things in Revelation, but it doesn't come down to one simple thing.

Otherwise, like you said, the New Testament would be a lot shorter.

Right, right, yeah.

We don't want to hurt the Muslims' feelings, yeah.

I think so.

And that's exactly what I would say as well.

And the church fathers, for example, believed that Aristotle and Plato and Socrates had reasoned to the existence of the God that we as Christians worship.

Obviously the church fathers did not believe that Aristotle, Plato, Socrates had correct notions about all the different truths about God, about who he was, et cetera.

Obviously their understanding of God was very deficient, very limited, limited to some basics like he's the creator, he's all powerful, he's all intelligent, things like this.

but their understanding of God was sufficient to recognize that, yes, we are both worshiping the creator who is the ground of being.

There's only one such entity, okay, in all of reality.

And so we're both worshiping him.

And Paul says something similar in Romans 1 when he talks about what may be known about God is clear to them.

And then he gives a few attributes of God that are evident from creation.