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What is the meaning of the word "revelation"?
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God's showing us who he is and his truth
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How is each person of the blessed trinity involved in the divine revelation?
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Man have access to father, through christ, word made flesh by Holy Spirit, and become sharers by guieding us.
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If human reason can lead us to believing in God and to understand some of his attributes, then why do we need revelation?
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Not capable of understanding things beyond our human capacity.
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List some of the things taught by the catholic church that culd not be derived through the use of reason alone.
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Jesus in the eucharist, three divine persons in one God, and the immaculate conception of mary.
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What is the purpose of God revealing himself to man?
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So he can have a relationship with us.
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Why is it neccessary to verify the claim that something comes from God?
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Reason dictates that we need some evidence.
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What are the 4 principal motives of credibility used to verify the truthfulness of divine revelation?
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-miracles of jesus and his saints
-the fullfillment of prophesis
-dignity of the message
-growth, holiness, fruitfullness, & stability of the chuch.
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What is the definition of miracle? prophecy?
how are these proofs that revelation is truly divine?
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Miracles-an extrodinary or observable fact or action the defies the laws of nature.
prophesis- something that is said in the name of God refers to for knowledge of future events.
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Why would a atheist, by definition, regect the excistance of miracles?
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If God does not exist, he can not therefore perform miracles.
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What is the freatest miracle that verifies the truthfulness of divine revelation?
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Ressurection
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How is the very existence of the catholoc church a motive of credibility for its divine mission?
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Inspite of human defect the church stil exist
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What is the definition of faith?
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Our belief of what God teaches
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Explain how christ satifies the highest human aspirations?
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Union with God is our perpose for our creation so only God can fulfill it
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Bescribe the proper personal disposition needed for accepting divine revelation?
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One need to be open to the truth.
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What do we mean when we say that a particular truth is not "self-evident"?
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It takes an act of free wil to accept it
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