DIVINE REVELATION

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DIVINE REVELATION
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How can we know God?

• Besides knowing God by our natural reason,
• we can also know Him from SUPERNATURAL
  REVELATION.
• God has often revealed Himself to men through
  means beyond the ordinary course of nature.

to reveal to disclose.
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• God "desires all men to be saved and to come to
  the knowledge of the truth" that is, of Christ
  Jesus .
• God revealed His plan of loving goodness by
  giving man access to Him through Jesus Christ,
  the Word made flesh in the Holy Spirit.

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• In His goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal
  Himself and to make known to us the hidden
  purpose of His will (see Eph. 19)
• by which through Christ, the Word made flesh, man
  might in the Holy Spirit have access to the
  Father
• and come to share in the divine nature (see Eph.
  218 2 Peter 14).

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FATHER

• By this revelation then, the deepest truth about
  God and the salvation of man shines out for our
  sake in Christ,
• who is both the mediator and
• the fullness of all revelation.

Jesus Christ
Holy Spirit
Man
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REVELATION the communication of some truth by
God to a rational creature through means which
are beyond the ordinary course of nature.

• Christ must be proclaimed to all nations and
  individuals, so that this revelation may reach to
  the ends of the earth.
• God graciously arranged that the things he had
  once revealed for the salvation of all peoples
  should remain in their entirety, throughout the
  ages, and be transmitted to all generations.

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The Transmission

• through Holy Scripture, written down under divine
  inspiration, and
• through Tradition, handed down orally from
  Apostolic times.

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Kinds

• The public revelation of truths to men by God
  began with Adam and Eve and ended at the death of
  Saint John the Apostle.
• Private revelations have been made to holy
  persons, such as those of the Sacred Heart of
  Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary, and those of Our
  Lady of Lourdes to Saint Bernadette, St Faustina
  of the Divine Mercy.
• But these private revelations are never proposed
  to the faithful as articles of faith.
• When the Church approves them, it merely states
  that there is nothing in them contrary to faith
  or morals.

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Stages of Divine Revelation
I. PRE-CHRISTIAN REVELATION

• Primitive revelation, made to Adam and Eve
• Patriarchal revelation, made to the patriarchs
  and
• Mosaic revelation, made to Moses and the prophets
  

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II. Christian Revelation

• Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, come to earth
  to reveal Divine truths to men.
• After His death, His Apostles and disciples wrote
  about Him and His teachings.

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God our loving Father has revealed himself to us,
giving us the unimaginably generous gift of his
Word. May we be thankful for, and
ever-faithful to this gift.
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