Commentary on My Catholic Faith: Divine Revelation
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. Other than Natural Revelation, there is Supernatural Revelation, which are truths revealed by God to us and acceptable by the intellect but unattainable by the intellect in its natural state as the natural world does not provide enough evidence to deduce towards the truths of Supernatural Revelation or the natural intellect simply does not possess enough power to actualize itself towards such truths. Public Revelation, which is Supernatural Revelation directed to all of mankind in all ages began with Abraham and ended with the death of Saint John the Apostle.
Supernatural Revelation
are divided into primitive revelation, patriarch revelation, Mosaic revelation,
and finally Christian revelation. Divine Revelation comes from God and so we
must believe in it fully. There are 2 ways God proves His Revelation to be authentic,
that is through miracles and prophecies. Miracles are extraordinary works of
God which goes beyond natural law. Prophecies are the Word of God through the
prophets regarding God’s Will. Divine Revelation comes to us through the people
of the Mosaic Revelation, also known as Israel, and they recorded some of
Revelation. Then the Lord Jesus Christ came and gave the summit of revelation,
Himself, and the Apostles and disciples of Christ wrote about Him and His
teachings, thus we have the New Testament.
Not all Revelation is
written down, the portion written down is called Scared Scripture, what is not
written down is called Sacred Tradition. The totality of Supernatural
Revelation is completed with the last Apostle that is St John, but it is
unfolded and understood better and deeper by us over generations by the
authority of the Church. The Church never made anything new but merely makes
explicit what has been revealed since the beginning by Christ and His Apostles
and disciples. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
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