We cannot know like God knows (archetypal), but we can know as God wants and allows and helps us to know (ectypal). Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)
God in his love gives his truth to us for our well-being. God's truth serves not only the interests of his own glory but also his people's good. Truth is for our everlasting joy in God. Furthermore, truth worked deep down into the heart and soul and bones of a preacher and then worked out in his relationships makes him tender and humble in his dealing with the sheep and in proclaiming and explaining the Word. Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (20)
the objection that language is not capable of conveying absolute truth is not an angst derived from the pages of Scripture; it comes from an alien philosophical mind-set manifested in both medieval nominalism and post-Kantian philosophy. Both the apostle Paul and the apostle John were ready to expel people from the church over language! Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (31)