Today I’ve been thinking a little about general revelation. This is revelation in the sense that God has shown us something but it is general in the sense that it is generally available and not specific to any one religion or philosophy.
General revelation, for example, is that we can discover God’s existence and his desire for order and harmony by exploring nature. There is enough evidence within nature to prove that God exists. General revelation is the bedrock of natural theology and for the proofs for the existence of God (more of those at a later date). So it is possible, though exploration and logic, to discover things about God even if God had never given us any more than the world in which we live.
Atheists would dispute this of course, although I would want to maintain that they are wrong and the evidence is overwhelming, to deny such evidence is to choose to do so and so is another example of how atheists rely on faith more than anyone.