Se Deus não se revelasse, o homem absolutamente não estaria em posição de conhecê-lo tal como Ele é realmente: a revelação cristã é uma automanifestação de Deus ao homem

Abstract

“Revelation” is understood for the term the self-manifestation of the divine; saying itself of deep the Biblical one of the term, it must be gone beyond the common theological definition of the revelation, that is, that one of a divine speech that affirms a proposal. This is always a communication necessarily of a proposal. No particular word or group of words in Hebrew or Greek can be registered as expressing the idea; revelation is an ample term that involves diverse ideas with it related. God reveals himself to man. The desire of God is enrolled in the heart of the man, a time that this is created by God and for God; and God does not cease to attract the man himself, and in God the man only has to find the truth and the happiness that does not cease to look for. Thus says the text: The most sublime human dignity is in this man's vocation to communion with God. This invitation which God to man, to dialogue with it, begins with the human existence. Because if the man exists, it is because God created it out of love and out of love, never ceases to give it, and the man only lives fully, according to the truth, acknowledge freely this love and surrender to its creator. 2 This “revelation” deeply held and deepens the man. With this motivation: “Love”, God himself will feel fulfilled! Love is the deepest reason why God reveals himself to man. God, who “dwells in inaccessible light” (1Tim 6:16), wants to communicate his own divine life to the men he freely created, to make them, in his only Son, adopted children (cf. Eph 1:4-5). To prove either makes men able to answer him, to know him and love him well beyond what would be able by themselves. This project has its own pedagogy and “divine”. God communicates himself to man gradually. This is done through actions and words. God prepares the man for steps to receive the supernatural Revelation that will culminate in the person and mission of the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ. 2 See Documents from the Second Vatican Council. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes. Sao Paulo, 2004, § 19. Throughout history and even today, men have sought various ways to SEARCH GOD. This quest takes place through their beliefs and religious behaviors (prayers, rituals, meditations, etc.). Despite the various ways and means of expression, we can conclude that man is a religious being, because there is a need for inner satisfaction that only God can supply (cf. Act 17:23-28)