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The Revelation of God II
By peace | June 23, 2007
God Reveals Himself Through His Son
Finally, God chose to speak to us most clearly in Jesus. He sent his own Son, Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, who was in the beginning with God and who was God, to come among us. He took on flesh so that God’s own Word could now speak to us in our words, and so that we might come to know directly and clearly within the limits of our finite human nature who God is and how much God loves us. The Letter to the Hebrews opens with the familiar words: “In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these days he has spoken to us by a Son (Hebrews 1:1)”.
Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the Word of God from all eternity, took on flesh and dwelt among us so that we might know the glory that is God. In his own words and deeds, he revealed to us a loving God whom he taught us to call “our Father”. Jesus also told us that he came not to teach on his own but to reveal what he had received from the Father, so that we might all know the truth and in that truth find our salvation.
With the coming of Jesus and his teaching, God’s revelation is complete. Through the law and the prophets God prepared us to receive the fullness of his word to us. The Word was spoken in Jesus Christ. The deposit of the faith closed with the death of the last apostle. It is the firm teaching of the Church that there are no new public revelations by which we shall be saved. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, again quoting the Second Vatican Council, teaches us that “the Christian economy, since it is the new and definitive covenant, will never pass away and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ when he comes in glory to claim the living and the dead”.
~ The Catholic Way, Bishop Donald W. Wuerl
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