There are numerous biblical references to individuals receiving knowledge of God through an intuitive awareness. For instance, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jona, For Flesh and blod has not revealed this to you, but m Faher who is in heaven. (Matt. 16:17) Or, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval, By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear. (Hebrews 11:1-3)
By the term "intuitive awareness" it seems that Woodfin is referring that when individuals examined the person and works of Jesus there was an evocation of a trustworthiness regarding his representing God and a consequent inner conviction, which emerges in the individual regarding his identity.
Woodfin contends that this inner awareness of which we are speaking is not to be considered as the work of the Holy Spirit. Rather this awareness is of a different nature. According to Woodfin, this awareness has to do with "that faculty of immediate perception to which the objective reality of God as personal Spirit makes his appeal through Christ.
However, Woodfin is quick to point out that this intuitive awareness of God is not sufficient in itself. Rather, this intuitive channel of knowledge concerning God's presence in the person of Jesus Christ must find confirmation or at least further validation in two other sources of knowledge: the pragmatic channel and the rational/reflective channel.
