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9/2/2019 RCIA 3: The Story and Divine Revelation 3: The Story and Divine Revelation Gods Plan of Salvation God is love, and out of the fullness of His love, He chose to create men and women who could share His life of love (& who are

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3: The Story and Divine Revelation

3: The Story and Divine Revelation

God’s Plan of Salvation

  • God is love, and out of the fullness of His love,

He chose to create men and women who could share His life of love (& who are free to reject Him)

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The Garden of Eden by Lucas Cranach der Ältere (16th c.)

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God’s Plan of Salvation

  • Adam and Eve introduced sin into human race
  • God immediately provided a solution

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Adam and Eve cast out of Paradise

  • after eating from the Tree of

knowledge in the Garden of Eden. From Old Testament stories, published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London c.1880. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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God’s Plan of Salvation

  • Jesus

– Conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary – Grew to manhood – Had many followers but chose 12 special ones – Died to satisfy the death penalty against mankind – Rose from the dead thus

  • vercoming sin

– Ascended bodily into Heaven

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God’s Plan of Salvation

  • Spreading the Good News

– Responsibility given to the apostles

  • Successors appointed to continue the work

– Holy Spirit empowers and guides – Many heard, believed, converted, and were baptized

  • Early Church: fellowship, Mass, prayer

– Today: the Church offers the gift of divine life through the sacraments

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People of God

  • Restoring mankind to friendship

with God was realized in stages:

– A savior promised (Adam – Gen 3:15) – Destruction never again (Noah – Gen 9:8-17) – Father of many nations (Abraham – Gen 17:1-14) – The Chosen People (Moses – Ex 19:3-6) – A perpetual kingdom (David – 2 Sm 7:9-16) – A New Covenant (Jesus – Mt 16:16; 21:9; 25:13)

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People of God

  • All this prepared for the Church which…

– draws all people to God – establishes the Kingdom of Heaven on earth – communicates the grace and merit of Christ – makes communion with God possible – seeks to “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19) – “is the visible plan of God’s love for humanity” (CCC 776)

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The Deposit of Faith

  • God has revealed those truths that we must

know and believe in order to be what He created us to be

– Personified in Jesus, the Word of God

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The Deposit of Faith

  • Revelation (God’s Word, the Deposit of Faith)

– Sacred Scripture (written) – Sacred Tradition (oral) – Magisterium (guards and interprets)

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The Deposit of Faith

  • Deposit of Faith

– Entrusted to the Church – That from which the Church draws life & teaching – Authentically proclaimed by the Church – Faithfully handed down – Understanding continues to develop and grow – Expressed in different ways to diverse cultures

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Divine Revelation

  • Intimate knowledge of God comes thru Divine

Revelation

– Natural reason limited – Minds darkened by sin

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Divine Revelation

  • Need for Divine Revelation

– To be able to know, respond to, and love God and His will

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Divine Revelation

  • What has been revealed

– Plan for the human race – The inner life of the Trinity – Truths about the Son of God becoming man to save us – Graces needed to work out our salvation – The baptized are God’s sons and daughters

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Sacred Scripture

Introduction

  • Written under the inspiration and direction of

the Holy Spirit

  • The story of salvation
  • The most perfect source of

encouragement and guidance

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  • St. Matthew, writing. He is accompanied by his symbol,

a winged man blowing a trumpet and carrying a book; a figure holding a book appears by the curtain Date: between 710 and 721 Image taken from Lindisfarne Gospels.

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Sacred Scripture

Important Facts about Sacred Scripture

  • Divine Authorship

– God is principal author – God inspired the human authors

  • Used their own faculties and

powers to write what God wanted

  • Wrote according to their own

– various times and culture – literary styles – modes of expression

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El Greco, "St. Paul" (1606), Oil on canvas, Museo del Greco, Toledo.

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Sacred Scripture

Important Facts about Sacred Scripture (cont.)

  • No Errors

– God cannot make a mistake or lie – Not all literally true – must interpret according to intention of the human author

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Sacred Scripture

Important Facts about Sacred Scripture (cont.)

  • Interpretation of God’s Word

– Must be in the light of the Holy Spirit – Attention must be paid to the unity of Revelation – Must be read in the living Tradition of the Church

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Monk Reading the Bible by Gerard Dou (1613-1675)

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Sacred Scripture

The Old Testament and the New Testament

  • OT

– Many covenants that made God’s intention clearer and more complete

  • NT

– Jesus fulfilled OT promises

  • The NT lies hidden in the OT and

the OT is unveiled in the NT

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Sacred Scripture

Sacred Scripture in Catholic Life Today

  • Receiving the sacraments worthily and

studying God’s Word are the foundation of Catholic spiritual life

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Sacred Scripture

The Liturgy of the Word

  • Proclamation of the Scriptures at Mass
  • OT, Psalm, NT (non-Gospel), Gospel

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Structure of the Bible

  • A small library of books

– But also just one book: the Word, Jesus Christ

  • Divided into Old and New Testaments

– OT: God’s saving interaction until Jesus comes – NT: God’s personal encounter with humanity

  • Gospels: principal source of life & teaching of Jesus
  • Other letters: account of infant Church
  • Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, determined

authentic and inspired books

– OT: 46; NT: 27

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Deuterocanonical Books of the Old Testament

Second Canon

– Judith, Tobit, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, parts of Daniel and Esther – Originally written in Greek – Universally accepted by the Church by 400 A.D. – Luther rejected them (early 1500’s) – Sometimes appear in Protestant Bibles under “Apocrypha”

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

Fundamental Principles

  • Must understand authors’ intent, culture
  • Not a science textbook
  • Not a comprehensive history

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

Fundamental Principles (cont.)

  • Composite of literary types

– Prophecy – Stories – Chronicles – Allegory – Drama – Poetry – Regulations – Laws – Prayer – Rules for living

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

Fundamental Principles (cont.)

  • Interpretation

– The unity of Scripture – In light of Tradition – Unity and harmony of the truths of faith

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

Fundamental Principles (cont.)

  • Senses

– Literal – Spiritual

  • Allegorical

(significance in Christ)

  • Moral

(leading us to good and just behavior)

  • Anagogical

(eternal significance of events and realities)

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

Creation

  • God

– Exists – Personal being – Eternal – Created everything from nothing with

  • rder & purpose

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God the Father by Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) & Domenico Alfani (c. 1479–1480– c. 1553)

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

The Creation of Humankind and the Fall of Man

  • Endowed with an immortal soul
  • Alone have an eternal destiny
  • Single set of parents
  • Meant to be a community
  • Complementarity of men and women
  • Broke the moral law through Satan’s temptation
  • Plunged the entire human race into a fallen world
  • The promise of a Savior

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

The Theory of Evolution

  • Science vs. Revelation

– Scientific discoveries can’t contradict their Creator – The process of discovery never ends – Science cannot answer “why” – Revelation needed to know truths needed for our salvation

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Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

When and How Can the Bible be Taken Literally?

– Take literally unless there is obvious reason not to – Seek to harmonize science with Bible teachings

  • But science is not the arbiter of Biblical truth

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Sacred Tradition

Introduction

  • All that the apostles received from Jesus and

learned from His example, or learned by the prompting of the Holy Spirit, and then handed on by their own preaching, example and by the institutions they established.

  • NT: that which was written down
  • Guided by the Holy Spirit
  • Expressed differently over time but doesn’t

change

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Sacred Tradition

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Sacred Tradition

Excerpts from Sacred Tradition

  • Ignatius of Antioch (1st c.)
  • n hierarchy, Eucharist
  • Irenaeus of Lyons (2nd c.)
  • n unity of doctrine, Creed
  • Augustine of Hippo (4th and 5th c.)
  • n doctrine coming from the Bible

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Sacred Tradition

Excerpts from Sacred Tradition

  • Sacred Tradition understands and develops…

– the institution of the priesthood – sacraments (esp. Eucharist) – creeds – living interpretation of Scripture

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Sacred Tradition

What About Sola Scriptura?

  • Sola scriptura: the Bible alone is the only

source and authority for God’s Revelation

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Sacred Tradition

What About Sola Scriptura? (cont.)

  • Problems

– Not found in the Bible – Jesus did not write it – He instituted a Church – Illogical in principle – NT canon decided 397 A.D.

  • No “inspired table of

contents”

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