- “As God’s act, revelation is the personal self-disclosure whereby He brings us actively and experientially to know Him as our God and Savior.”
- “As God’s gift, revelation is the knowledge about Himself which he gives us as a means to this end.”
- “Revelation as God’s act takes place through the bestowing of revelation as God’s gift; the first sense of the word thus comprehends the second. Accordingly, revelation in the narrower sense ought always to be studied in the setting of revelation in the broader sense.”
- “Revelation in its basic form is thus of necessity propositional; God reveals himself by telling us about Himself, and what he is doing in the world.”
- What does God reveal himself? “ He who made us rational being wants, in his love, to have us as His friends; and He addresses His words to us – statements, commands, promises – as a means of sharing His thoughts with us, and so making that personal self-disclosure which friendship presupposes, and without which it cannot exist.”
- What is the content of revelation? “…He has resolved in His love to rescue us from sin and restore us to Himself. His plan for doing this was to make Himself known to us as our Redeemer and Re-creator, through the incarnation, death, resurrection and reign of his Son.”
James I. Packer
Christian Theology Reader
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