Special Revelation Research Paper

Introduction:
The Christian faith is one that utilizes the Christian canon, including the Hebrew bible or the Old Testament, as a source of divine revelation. From the studying of these sacred texts and human experience, theologians and the like have begun to deduce the epistemological value of such revelation. Specifically, divine revelation has been understood in two major ways: general revelation and special revelation. General revelation is that which reveals information of God via nature, human consciousness, or human history. However, special revelation is that which is given by God in specific ways to specific people for specific reasons. Furthermore, Christians believe that the Bible, or Christian canon, is a source of special revelation of this kind and, so, value the scriptures of the Old Testament to deduce the nature of God and God’s purpose for his creation. In this paper, I will explain the categories of general and special revelation in full detail, give examples of the Old Testament’s accounts for such revelation, explain the background of the Old Testament, which is a major source of divine …show more content…
The etymology of the word arrives from the Latin language; meaning to uncover or the act of revealing. It is believed that, due to God’s purpose for humanity, He has unveiled Himself by the way of the nature of the created world, human persons, human consciousness, the dynamic theory of inspiration, the dictation theory of inspiration, and human history, etc. According to Emil Brunner, there could be no knowledge of God had it not been for His choice to reveal himself to humanity. Furthermore, Martin Luther acknowledged that divine revelation is understood by humans to be “fragmentary, incomplete, and often distorted by us” in the general form; nevertheless, it is still a “valid disclosure by God of his majesty and power in the created