God reveals Himself in Stages

God is invisible so He uses visible things to communicate with the world. God throughout history has used various means to communicate; visions, voices, objects, dreams, books, nature, angels and people. The ultimate communicator of God was God himself in the person of Christ. The human mind cannot conceive what God is like. Ants are nearer trying to conceive the nature of humans. God is infinite. Our thinking minds are finite (as regards understanding). Because God cannot be conceived by humans, God uses the things of creation to communicate with man. God takes account of our human capabilities of understanding and our minds and speaks to us on our level. God sends us a letter in a form we can understand. Not alone does God communicate with man at specific points in time but through time. God revealed himself to man in stages. Knowledge of God is gradual. He does not hit us all at once with everything. Ultimately God revealed himself in three stages; God the father, residing above us and creator of man; God the Son, came down to walk beside us, saviour of man and the Holy Spirit, to reside inside us, guide and enlighten man. The understanding of knowledge and wisdom is gradual. All development and learning, is incremental, sequential and phased. God revealed himself exactly in this way. Throughout history up to Christ, God and His plan slowly formed into a clear picture. This history is recorded in the book we call the Bible. You have a part to play in God’s revelation. God asks you to receive and respond to his revelation. We are to respond to His revelation in faith.