The Constructive Nature of Revelation Part 1: Why Start with Revelation?

Why it's important to study revelation first, before anything else

Welcome again to 2023 and to the beginning of some new Climbing the Rainbows. We spent the second half of 2022 discovering important ideas, laying out some tools, and doing a bit of preliminary work. Now it’s time to move on to the real thing.

In a previous essay, we introduced what I call the “fundamental principles of revelation.” While these aren’t necessarily the most fundamental principles, nor are they the only ones for revelation, I think they give us a good place to start in our investigation of revelation as a way of knowing.

The sequence we’re beginning now will be all about the first of those principles, which is that revelation is constructive. We’ll talk about what it means for it to be “constructive,” why the principle is so fundamental, how it relates to human cognition, and many other topics. Awesome. Can’t wait.

Before that, though—and there always has to be a “before that” with these essays, I’ve noticed, there’s just way too much to cover—we need to talk about two other things. The first is somewhat silly, and it’s that I made a Climbing the Rainbows Youtube video. I’m so excited to tell you about it.

The first before thing: the first Climbing the Rainbows Youtube video!