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Every once in a while... Part 1
** As we go thru this earthly existence, most of out time and talents are spent on the everyday stuff; plus the annoying interuptions of the world {sales, hype, sports, politics, finance, and general foolishness} distractions!
Date: 10/26/2013 10:12:01 AM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 10710 times
So beyond the normal (if we dare call it that) stuff of life; every once in a while a revelation comes to us!
Here we discuss the over all view of religious revelation!
This is just a part as you {each of us} have to seek, and realize the revelation if and when it comes...
Believe that it comes when you earnistly seek it! So pray for spiritual discernment and words of wisdom from God!
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Revelation:
Some people hold that God can communicate with man in a way that gives direct, propositional content: This is termed verbal revelation. Orthodox Judaism and traditional Christianity hold that the first five books of Moses were dictated by God in such a fashion.
In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.
Some religions have religious texts which they view as divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired.
- Many Christians believe that the Old and New Testaments were inspired by God.
** When a revelation is communicated by a supernatural entity that is reported as present during the communication, it is called a vision. Some revelations go further in that direct conversations between the recipient and the supernatural entity is reported. Some revelations have been reported along with physical marks such as stigmata and in rare cases, such as that of Saint Juan Diego, physical artifacts accompany the revelation. Then there have been some concept of interior locution includes like an inner voice heard by the recipient.
In the Abrahamic religions, the term is used to refer to the process by which God reveals knowledge of himself, his will, and his divine providence, to the world of human beings. -
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Christianity:
Christianity regards varied collections of books known as the Bible as authoritative and written by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. However, it should be noted that the mainstream tradition regards Jesus as the supreme revelation of God, with the Bible being a revelation in the sense of a witness to him.
The Catholic Catechism states that "the Christian faith is not a 'religion of the book.' Christianity is the religion of the 'Word of God', a word which is 'not a written or a mute word, but the Word which is incarnate and living"
Some Christians {myself included} believe that the Bible is inerrant (in its original form, totally without error, and free from all contradiction, including the historical and scientific parts) or infallible (inerrant on issues of faith and practice but not history or science).
In the New Testament, Jesus treats the Old Testament as authoritative and says it "cannot be broken"
(John 10:34–36).
2 Timothy 3:16 says: "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correction and training in righteousness".
The Second Epistle of Peter claims that "no prophecy of Scripture … was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were directed by the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:20–21).
That epistle also claims divine authority for the Apostles (2 Peter 3:2).
Plus this includes Paul's letters as being counted with the Scriptures (2 Peter 3:16).
Hence the revelation of God to man, as held by Christians to be given in the Bible, is acknowledged to be inspired, inerrant, and infallible, by those who hold to those beliefs.
Karl Barth shows how the Christian doctrine of the Trinity in theology true apart from its putative view in liberalism. His argument follows from the idea that God is the object of God’s own self-knowledge, and revelation in the Bible means the self-unveiling to humanity of the God who cannot be discovered by humanity simply through its own efforts.
** Note here that the Bible is not The Revelation, rather, it points to revelation. As Barth emphasizes again and again that human concepts can never be considered as identical to God's revelation. In this aspect, scripture is also written in human language, expressing human concepts. It cannot be considered as identical to God's revelation.
However, God truly reveals himself through human language and concepts. Thus he claims that Christ is truly presented in scripture and the preaching of the church.
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What or how does or will personal revelation effect your life? More discussion upon how revelation occurs in your life in following parts!
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