Preface (1993) - Preface (1973) - Part one : Know the Lord. In 2006, Christianity Today voted this title one of the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals, and this 20th anniversary edition is updated with Americanized language and spelling, and a new preface by the author Platinum Book Award, Evangelical Christian Publishing Association for over 40 years. This guide leads readers into a greater understanding of God while providing advice to gaining a closer relationship with him as a result. Explaining both who God is and how we can relate to him, Packer divides his book into three sections: The first directs our attention to how and why we know God, the second to the attributes of God and the third to the benefits enjoyed by a those who know him intimately. Written in an engaging and practical tone, this thought-provoking work seeks to transform and enrich the Christian understanding of God. Stemming from Packer's profound theological knowledge, Knowing God brings together two important facets of the Christian faith- knowing about God and also knowing God through the context of a close relationship with the person of Jesus Christ.

Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God.

We come to this study totally dependent on God: Father, Son and Spirit to teach us of himself.J.I. So here we stand, here we study, here we think and question, knowing that the quest to know and understand God is not a pointless quest but a quest with an attainable goal, for we are not alone. Not only this, but this awesome God also comes to us and makes us his dwelling place. We can know God, through the totality of these four ways, because he, in an act of indescribable mercy and compassion, has regenerated us by his Spirit, giving us spiritual life where once there was spiritual death, giving us sight where once there was spiritual blindness, giving us understanding where once there was ignorance, giving us a teachable heart where once there was the hardness of stone. We can know God because he has given us his written word, the Bible, which affirms each of the above, and which is confirmed by each of the above. We can know God because he has come to us and dwelt among us and talked to us in his Son, Jesus Christ. We can know God because he has revealed himself in and through the history of Israel. We can know God because he has revealed himself in creation. As Francis Schaeffer has indicated in the title of one of his books, ‘He is there and he is not silent’. Yet we can look and speak and understand, because the God whom we are studying is the God who speaks. Here we seek to understand something of him who is beyond human understanding.

These studies are barely an introduction to this topic, for here we endeavour to speak of him who is eternal and infinite. In these studies we look at the multi-faceted Biblical concept of God.

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