# “In Jesus Christ we find the key to comprehension” by Craig A. Carter

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- Published: 2021-04-21T12:00:08-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever’ (**Heb. 13:8**), and
the saints rest securely in His unchanging love.

Since God has come among us by miraculous actions in history, our knowledge of God
arise from the contemplation of His actions in history.

What we seek in our contemplation of His action is certain knowledge of His eternal
being. We want to know God as God is in the depths of His perfect nature.

This is what drives theology forward. But we do not see history itself as the revelation
of God; we see divine self-revelation in the providential and miraculous history
of redemption _as interpreted_ by the prophets and apostles of Holy Scripture.

History itself is often inscrutable; in Jesus Christ we find the key to comprehension.
The witness of the church focuses on Christ and the gospel, not on current events
or the immediate past and imminent future.

History contains many false starts, wrong turns, and much regress as well as progress.
But we know _whom_ we have believed (**2 Tim. 1:12**).”

–Craig A. Carter, [_Contemplating God with the Great Tradition: Recovering Trinitarian Classical Theism_](https://amzn.to/3gFqK8b)(
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2021), 305.

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