How Revelation Is Understood In The Bible

Question 1

Through the beauty of the world. According to the Bible, the existence, ? and wisdom of God’s obvious everywhere we look.

Answer 1

Creativity.

Question 2

Through the event of history. In Christianity and Judaism, there’s belief that people gain insight into purposes of God by looking at the past (work of God) (“you brought your people Israel out of Egypt with ? and ?”).

Answer 2

Signs.

Wonders.

Question 3

Through traditional wisdom. In the Bible (“? ?”), God can be revealed through insights of wise people (“trust in the Lord with all your heart…and he’ll make your paths straight”).

Answer 3

Wisdom literature.

Question 4

Through words of the prophets. ? prophets are seen as messengers of ?, people chosen to reveal “the very words of the ?” (“And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’”).

Answer 4

Biblical.
God.
Lord.

Question 5

Through religious experiences and visions. In the Bible and Christian history, God appears in dreams, visions or transmitted by ?

Answer 5

Angels.

Question 6

Through natural law and design of the material world. The Bible demonstrates the existence and nature of God because it’s ? in everything God has made.

Answer 6

Obvious.

Question 7

Through the person of Jesus. In Christianity, Jesus’ understood as the incarnation of God (“? ?”) revealing God fully. According to John’s Gospel, Jesus was the “? made flesh”, revealing the extent of God’s love for humanity through miracles. For Christians, Jesus was the final ? of God made complete.

Answer 7

Anointed one.
Word.
Revelation.

Question 8

The Bible itself. For Christians, it reveals truths about God, a source through which God can be known, revealing knowledge which people couldn’t’ve gained (purposes of God in the person of Christ, death on the Cross and his Resurrection). It contains “? ?” understood to be collections of revealed wise insights. It’s difficult to know whether writers knew which words to write. Some argue it’s an ? source, interpreted as a ?

Answer 8

Wisdom literature.
Infallible.
Myth.

Question 9

The life of the Church. In the Protestant tradition, the Bible’s seen as a superior source of truth. In the Catholic tradition, scriptures communicate truths revealed, the Church’s made up of people of God, seen as “the ? ? ?”, believing it exists to continue this role as God’s representative, with the ? revealing the nature of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross and considered to have the responsibility for ? the word of God in the Bible.

Answer 9

Body of Christ.
Eucharist.
Safeguarding.