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FILIPINO CHRISTIAN LIVING
LESSON 1: THE NATURE OF DEVINE REVELATION
Revelation came from the Latin word “revelare” which means to “lay bare”.
“God’s” personal loving communication to us”.
“Friendship”
Revelation is defined as “the act or process of revealing or state of being revealed”.
THE RELEVATION OF GOD
- We understand that God is still working in our time.

- Natural reason
- By revealing the mystery, his plan of loving goodness.
IMMEDIATE
A relevation received directly from God
MEDIATE
It is passing of the relevation
NATURAL REVELATION
Manifestation of God in nature and creation. It is the revelation of God in His work.
SUPERNATURAL REVELATION
A revelation above the natural.
God’s self and His will is revealed
PUBLIC REVELATION
A revelation to a group of people, or to the truth, the people of God.
PRIVATE REVELATION
It is given to individuals or group of individual for a special reasons.
GOD’S CREATION
● So how do we know God?

● How does he reveals himself to us?
God reveals himself to us through creation, of course. When we spend time outsde in nature,
we are reminded of all that God created.
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LESSON 2: THE SACRED SCRIPTURE
THE TERM SACRED AND SCRIPTURE

- Sacred is interpreted as something connected with God
- Too valuable to interfere with.
The tern Scripture is interpreted as “sacred writings of Christianity contained in the Bible.”
THE SACRED SCRIPTURE

- Are collections of writings in the Bible
- Bible comes from the greek word ‘Biblia’, meaning “books”.
THE OLD TESTAMENT

● The old testament is the story of God’s relationship with the ancient Istraelites.
● It is a collection of sacred, inspired writings.
● It recounts the gradual process of God’s seld-disclosure to humanity.
● Stories about an agreement between God and Hebrews, as revealed to Moses.

● Tells how the agreement works out.
● Development of rules, behaviors, laws, and how to maintain the covenant.
● The story of our family history
THE FOUR SECTIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

● LAW/PENTATEUCH
- PENTA = Greek for “five”
- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deutoronomy, Numbers
● HISROTICAL
Ex. Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings
● WISDOM LITERATURE
- Psalms (written by King David)
- Proverbs (written by King Solomon)
- Job, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Sirach
● PROPHETIC BOOKS
Ex. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Jonaj, Zechariah
AN ANCIENT SIGN OF GOD’S LOVE

● Christians read the Old Testament in full awareness of Jesus as the Crucified and Risen
Christ.
● God’s relationship with the Israelites, ancestors of today’s Jews, endures forever.
● The Old Testament will always be a way for Jews and Christians to encounter God.
THE JEWISH ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY

● Saint Paul used the Image of a tree for Judaism and Christianity.
● Judaism is the tree; Christian communities are grafted btanches.
● A grafted branch could not survive without the original tree’s root.
THE NEW TESTAMENT

● The Old Testament spans many hundreds of years.
● The new testament covers a much shorter period of time.
● The books of the New Testament focus on the saving life and work of Jesus.
● Stories about an agreement between God and the people based on the life and
teachings of Jesus.
● Stories of the early life of the church.
THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS
● The New Testament is rooted in the historical life and teaching of Jesus.
● It is not complete, biographical account of the life of Christ.
● It does faithfully transmit the life and teachings of Jesus.
- There are different ways in which we can come to know that God exists, such as through
nature or through the use of human reason…
- We cannot come to know such things on our own by thinking about them, or by using
science and technology…
- The written record of God’s revelation is called Sacred Scripture. It consists of the Old
and New Testaments that make up the Bible…
WHO AUTHORIZED THE SACRED SCRIPTURE?
GOD is the author of the Sacred Scriptue
“He still needs human as the channel of his message”
HOW TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE?
According to the teaching of the Church especially the Catholic Church, there are four factors.
THE HUMAN AUTHOR

- Common sense tells us to find out what the inspired human author had in mind when
interpreting a text.
THE TEXT ITSELF
- We have to look at its literary form
THE READERS OR HEARERS
- We are constantly asking Scripture new questions and problems.
THE COMMON HORIZON
- First unites all the books of the bible into basic unity, and second, links together the
context of the Scriptural text and its tradition with our present reading context today.
HOW TO READ THE BIBLE?
- Many people pick a random place in the Bible start reading, expecting it to make
compplete sense.Sometimes they even ask the wrong questions about what they are
reading, hoping to find an answer where there is none.
- Ultimately, to read the Bible effectively, we must first know how to read it. That is no
easy task. The Bible is unlike any book that has ever been written.
- With most books, you can simply start at the beginning and read to the end and get the
complete story…
- Therefore, in order to find answers to the right questions about the Bible, we have to
know how to read it properly.
EXEGESIS
- Interpreting from Scripture from what is there.
EISEGESIS
- Accidentally reading into Scripture something that not is ther.

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FILIPINO CHRISTIAN LIVING

LESSON 1: THE NATURE OF DEVINE REVELATION

“God’s” personal loving communication to us”.

Revelation is defined as “the act or process of revealing or state of being revealed”.

THE RELEVATION OF GOD

- We understand that God is still working in our time.

● So how do we know God?

LESSON 2: THE SACRED SCRIPTURE

THE TERM SACRED AND SCRIPTURE

THE SACRED SCRIPTURE

THE OLD TESTAMENT

● Stories about an agreement between God and Hebrews, as revealed to Moses.

THE FOUR SECTIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

AN ANCIENT SIGN OF GOD’S LOVE

THE JEWISH ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY

THE NEW TESTAMENT

THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS

WHO AUTHORIZED THE SACRED SCRIPTURE?

GOD is the author of the Sacred Scriptue

“He still needs human as the channel of his message”

HOW TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE?

THE HUMAN AUTHOR

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