Revelation In The Bible

Revelation is defined as the way God presented himself to humanity. The Catholic Church is constantly modifying itself to be relevant with the present times so it is constantly presenting itself to us. God revealed himself to mankind through creation, events, persons, and Jesus. The purpose of revelation is for salvation. Revelation is everywhere; it is in nature, history, and in the words/activities of special individuals and communities. God reaches out to us and initiates the process. Without God accepting it, revelation cannot happen. It is the supernatural manifestation of the inner life of God within a human. The Bible is an understanding of revelation that testifies to certain presumed experiences of God. This was God in our lives …show more content…
According to the Catholic Church, the people who were chosen by God were inspired to record the truths necessary for the accomplishment of blessedness or salvation. However, this does not imply that every word of Scripture is God telling us something specific. God’s revelation can be found in God’s mighty acts, in the presence of believers, and in God’s invitations to enter a relationship of faith. Revelation is not distinctly found in a line or paragraph in the Bible. The bible is better to think of revelation as the dialogue that has initiated with humanity, and elements of this are found in Scriptures. The Bible is clearly divided into two testaments, the old and the new. A testament refers to something received after something/someone dies. The Old Testament is known as the Hebrew Scriptures, and denotes the first or prior books. It is divided four parts, Law (Torah), Prophets, Historical Books and Writing (Poetry, wisdom, apocalyptical). It was originally written in Hebrew but then later translated into Greek. The Torah is also known as Pentateuch, which includes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The Hebrew Bible was originally thought to be written by Moses, …show more content…
They were written for the communities to convert people to Christianity. It is commonly noted as preaching the Christian Gospel. The development of the Gospels can broken down into a three-stage formation. The first stage is that Jesus spoke; he accommodated himself to the language of the people. God became human and spoke through Jesus in a language that would be accessible to the people. The second stage is when the Apostles told the story of Jesus. How you tell the Jesus story depends on the understanding of your audience, so they had to be accommodating. In the third stage of development the Evangelists wrote the story. They took the stories they heard and they and they ordered into a narrative framework. This allows for them to convert the community to which they were writing. Since they pieced together events for a particular community to give a theology, evangelists are