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Chapter 2 - 1
Chapter 2 - 1
“Sharing my Secrets”
EVENTS CREATION
HISTORY
PROPHETS
CHURCH
PERSONS
JESUS CHRIST
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
proclaims His handiwork” Psalm 19:1
The beauty of nature awakens our religious
sense. Realizing that we cannot be
responsible for the grandeur of creation,
we end up concluding: there must be a
God who is the cause of everything.
“No one has ever seen God, but the only Son, who is the
same as God, made Him known…” John 1: 18
God, the one and only source of revelation, so willed that his revelation
be transmitted to us through two modes: Sacred Scriptures and Sacred
Tradition, two phases of the same revelation forming one sacred deposit
of the word of God entrusted to the Church
OUR RESPONSE TO REVELATION IS
ACT OF FAITH
O MY GOD, I FIRMLY BELIEVE
ALL THE TRUTHS WHICH
THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES
BECAUSE YOU HAVE REVEALED THEM
WHO NEVER DECEIVE,
NOR CAN BE DECEIVED.
AMEN.
Many of the truths revealed by God to us are beyond the power of our
human comprehension. Yet because we believe that God, who is all
good "cannot deceive nor be deceived” we say “AMEN” even to things
we do not fully understand.
Revelation is both a
gift and a task.
Revelation is God’s free, undeserved act of
love by which he enables us to have
knowledge of him and of the salvation that
he offers.
Revelation likewise challenges us to interpret
the events in our lives in the light of the
life-changing Gospel of Jesus, that we
might know and obey God’s will and thus
become tangible signs of God’s loving
presence.
Fr. Ian Knox, C.S. Sp.
THEOLOGY FOR TEACHERS
Ottawa: Novalis Press, 1994