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• Among the principles of common sense realism, which Greene mentions in his syllabus, is that reason is assumed to be trustworthy because it includes intuitive self-knowledge, which “is self-evident, necessary and universally accepted” (p. 6).
• Greene supposes, therefore, that the way to defend Christianity is by reason alone, as it is able—self-evidently, necessarily, and universally—to intuitively understand who we are as human beings.
• the regenerate or elect, however, see God clearly through the “spectacles” of Scripture, which make sure and certain their knowledge of God as Creator.
• both the confessions and the dogmatic systems acknowledge the presence of a revelation of God in the created order.
• No Reformed confession, therefore, views natural theology as a preparation for revealed theology, since only the regenerate, who have learned from Scripture, can return to creation and find there the truth of God.