God's revelation

3. God Reveals Himself in the
Scriptures

4. The second way God reveals Himself to
us is in Sacred Scriptures through
Salvation History

5. In the Old Testament,
God revealed Himself
through biblical signs
made up of both
deeds and words.

6. •He made
covenants
with Noah,
with
Abraham,
and with
Moses.

7. •He performed great
works for His Chosen
People, and proclaimed
their saving power and
truth through the
prophets’ words (cf. DV 2;
CCC 56-64).

8. Hosea, Joel, Amos,
Obadiah, Jonah,
Micah, Nahum,
Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah,
and Malachi

9. Today, through His
inspired word in the Old
Testament, God still
reveals Himself to us,
and inspires us to
respond to His
covenant.

10. In the New
Testament God
gave his son
Jesus to save
us all.

11. (cf. Jn 3:16; Gal 4:4; Heb 4:15; CCC 65).

12. Jesus Christ “completed
and perfected God’s
revelation by words and
works, signs and
miracles, but above all
by his death and
glorious resurrection
from the dead” (DV 4).

13. What composes the Sacred
Scripture?
The Canon of Scripture is the
comprehensive list of the
sacred writings – called books
– which the Church has
actually identified with
Apostolic Tradition.

14. The Bible is divided
into two sections:

15. Old Testament
•demonstrate to the
magnificent showing of God’s
boundless, saving love
• are composed, most of all,
to prepare for the coming of
Christ the Savior of the
world.

16. New Testament
• primary focus of the
New Testament is Jesus
Christ – the Son of GOD.
• communicates to us the
ultimate truth of divine
Revelation.

17. New Testament
•Within the New Testament the
four Gospels of Mathew, Mark,
Luke and John are the heart of
all the Scriptures since they
are the ultimate witness to the
life and also teaching of Jesus
Christ.

18. How does God
reveal Himself in
the Scriptures?

19. In the Old Testament God had made
Himself known by forming Covenants
with good men and preaching His
word through prophets. God’s
wisdom and love is shared by these
people. Through these people works
and efforts God’s name was known
and shared to all people.

20. The
Covenant
with Noah

23. "Noah, Daniel, and Job. Scripture
thus expresses the heights of
sanctity that can be reached by
those who live according to the
covenant of Noah, waiting for Christ
to “gather into one the children of
God who are scattered abroad."

24. God
chooses
Abraham

26. •In order to gather together
scattered humanity God
calls Abram from his
country, his kindred, and his
father's house, and makes
him Abraham, that is, "the
father of a multitude of
nations."

27. The people descended from
Abraham would be the
trustees of the promise made
to the patriarchs, the chosen
people, called to prepare for
that day when God would
gather all his children into
the unity of the Church.

28. Israel is the priestly
people of God, "called
by the name of the
LORD," and "the first to
hear the word of God,
"the people of "elder
brethren" in the faith of
Abraham.

29. Through the prophets,
God forms his people in
the hope of salvation, in
the expectation of a
new and everlasting
Covenant intended for
all, to be written on
their hearts.

30. The Old Testament is full of
promises made by God to His
people, while in the New
Testament all of these
promises were answered
because of Jesus Christ.

31. •What is “Revelation”?
Revelation is God’s personal
loving communication to us of
who He is and His plan to save us
all in His love. It is God’s
reaching out to us in friendship,
so we get to know and love Him.

32. How does God reveal
Himself?
•Creating us and everything
we see, hear and touch
from the beginning till now
[natural signs];

33. How does God
reveal Himself?
• His words and deeds in Sacred
Scripture’s record of salvation
history, completed and perfected
in His Son-made-man, Jesus
Christ [Biblical signs];

34. How does God reveal Himself?
•His continuing presence by the Holy
Spirit in His people, the Church;
[ecclesial signs];
• The prayer and sacramental
worship, doctrine, and moral service
of the Church; [liturgical signs];

35. How does God reveal Himself?
•His interior presence (Grace) in
our conscience and in all the
events of our daily lives, world
events, recognized in the “signs
of the times.”

36. •“God wants all men to be saved and
come to know the truth” (1 Tim 2:4), and
in ways both hidden and clear, calls all to
Christ, who is the goal, the object, and
the agent of God’s Self-revelation, and
“the real light which enlightens every
man” (Jn 1:9).
To whom does God reveal
Himself?

37. How are we to understand God’s
inspired Word in Scripture?
Under the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, Scripture grew from the life,
worship and teaching of the early
Church. So the Church is its authentic
interpreter, under the active help of
the same Holy Spirit.

38. How important is Sacred
Scripture in our daily lives?
• God continues to speak to us
personally through His inspired
Word in Scripture, thereby
• helping us to understand the true
meaning of the daily happenings in
our lives,

39. How important is Sacred
Scripture in our daily lives?
• guiding our moral behavior toward
authentic freedom and loving service of
others, and
• drawing us into prayerful union with
Christ, our Way, our Truth and our Life,
in his Church.