Revelation

God is unveiling, revealing himself.

Deus Absconditus

hidden, transcendent, unknowable

Dues Revelans

God reveals himself in two ways

1. Universal
2. Special

Universal Revelation

God reveals himself to all

1. creation
2. human existence
3. through expereince

Special Revelation

takes place at a special time, to specific people, in a specific place

Two Types

1. Foundational Special Revelation
2. Dependent Special Revelation

Foundation Special Revelation

refers to the precise historical event by which we are saved

 Dependent Special Revelation

refers to the church after the Apostles up to and including the present and into the future

 3 Periods of Special Revelation

1. Old testament -Hebrews scriptures up to Christ Event
2. The Christ Event
3. Period of the Apostolic Church - early Christianity

Yahweh EL

Yaweh - Savior

El- Creator

Name of God

Scripture

is a written form of record of the events of revelation in faith in the Foundational Period of Revelation

 5 Characteristics of Scripture

1. scripture is not a revelation
2. scripture is a response
3. scripture converges on Jesus
4. is a record of revelation and faith which focus on JC
5. our link with reality of scripture is at the level of faith

Level of faith

Dependent Period of Revelation- because we have faith we have accress. We have common with Foundational Period of Revelation

Focus of scripture

Jesus Christ, literally there is only one Word of God, this word is not verbal but a person, JC

Theory of Verbal Dictation

"bird in ear theory" - involves that diving taking control of authory

Theory of Negative Assistance

maintains that some parts of scriptures were written under negative assistance of the Holy Spirit, nothing negative was recorded

Post Factum Theory

theory that scriptures were first just human contribution, but later regarded as inspirational.  Initially just human compositions, does not take into account the inspiration occurred before the texts were completed

Partial Inspiration Theory

theory that only certain parts of the Bible are inspired - does not consider the entire test

Bible

Greek word "ta Biblia" = "the book"

Collection of books from different authors , "the writings"

Scriptures are true

Bible is true with regards to salvation, God is self-giving, love

-core message of revelation

Apocrypha

of doubtful authority, 7 books of Greek Septuagint listed in the back of the book

Pentateuch

The Torah, the first five books of the bible, the teachings of Moses, often viewed by Jews as "The Law of Moses"

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the torah

Septuagint

Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures

Canon

Greek word canon which means "measuring stick, list or rule"

Canonical

Synoptic Gospels

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

 The "Q" source

Matthew and Luke are written from a source cited as Q, referring to the German word "quelle" meaning source

Testament

Agreement, covenant

1. First Testament, Hebrew, OT
2. Second "    , Christian, NT

Septuagint

Greek version of hebrew scriptures