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GRADE 12, 1ST SEMESTER

THE NATURE OF DIVINE REVELATION → Too valuable to interfere with.”
→ The term Scripture is interpreted as “sacred
REVELATION writings of Christianity contained in the Bible.”
→ Revelation came from the Latin word ‘revelare’ → Are collections of writings in the Bible
which means to ‘lay bare’. → Bible – comes from the Greek word ‘Biblia’,
→ “God’s personal loving communication to us” meaning ‘books.’
→ “friendship”
→ Revelation is defined as: “the act or process of THE OLD TESTAMENT
revealing, or the state of being revealed”. → The Old Testament is the story of God’s
relationship with the ancient Israelites.
THE REVELATION OF GOD → It is a collection of sacred, inspired writings.
→ We understand that God is still working in our → It recounts the gradual process of God’s self-
time disclosure to humanity.
→ Natural reason
→ By revealing the mystery, his plan of loving THE FOUR SECTIONS OF OLD TESTAMENT
goodness. 1. Law/Pentateuch
• “Penta” = Greek for “five”
DEFINITION OF TERMS • Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
1. Immediate – a revelation received directly Deuteronomy, Numbers
from God. 2. Historical
2. Mediate – it is passing of the revelation. • Ex. Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 &
3. Natural Revelation – manifestation of God in 2 Kings
nature and creation. It is the revelation of God 3. Wisdom Literature
in His work. • Psalms (Written by King David)
4. Supernatural Revelation – a revelation above • Proverbs (Written by King Solomon)
the natural. God’s self and his will is revealed. • Job, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Sirach
5. Public Revelation – a revelation to a group of 4. Prophetic Books
people, or to the church, the people of God. • Ex. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Jonah,
6. Private Revelation – it is given to individuals Zechariah
or group of individual for special reasons.
THE OLD TESTAMENT
GOD’S CREATION
→ Christians read the Old Testament in full
→ God reveals himself to us through creation, of
awareness of Jesus as the Crucified and Risen Christ.
course. When we spend time outside in nature, we
→ God’s relationship with the Israelites, ancestors
are reminded of all that God created.
of today’s Jews, endures forever.
→ The Old Testament will always be a way for Jews
GOD’S MYSTERY
and Christians to encounter God.
→ We cannot expect to fully understand all of God’s
ways.
THE JEWEL ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY
→ Our human intellect allows us to know God, but
→ Saint Paul used the image of a tree for Judaism
God remains a mystery that is always able to
and Christianity.
surprise us with truth we could never have known
→ Judaism is the tree; Christian communities are
otherwise.
grafted branches.
→ A grafted branch could not survive without the
THE SACRED SCRIPTURE
original tree’s root.
→ Sacred is interpreted as something “connected
with God”

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GRADE 12, 1ST SEMESTER
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.

THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF JESUS

→ The New Testament is rooted in the historical life
and teachings of Jesus.
→ It is not a complete, biographical account of the
life of Christ.
→ It does faithfully transmit the life and teachings
of Jesus.

WHO AUTHORED THE SACRED SCULPTURE

→ GOD is the author of the Sacred Scripture.
→ “He still needs Human as the channel of his
message.”

4 INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BIBLE

1. Then Human Author – common sense tells us
to find out what the inspired human author
had in mind when interpreting a text.
2. The Text Itself – we have to look at its literary
form.
3. The Readers or Hearers – we are constantly
asking Scripture new questions and problems.
4. 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.

REMINDER
→ EXEGESIS – interpreting FROM scripture
from what is there.
→ EISEGESIS – accidentally (or intentionally)
reading INTO scripture something that is not there.

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