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  2. General revelation - Wikipedia

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    Without general revelation, special revelation would lack that basis in the fundamental knowledge of God as the mighty and wise, righteous and good, maker and ruler of all things, apart from which the further revelation of this great God’s interventions in the world for the salvation of sinners could not be either intelligible, credible or ...

  3. Deus revelatus - Wikipedia

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    Deus revelatus (Latin: "revealed God") refers to the Christian theological concept coined by Martin Luther which affirms that the ultimate self-revelation of God relies on his hiddenness. It is the particular focus of Luther’s work the Heidelberg Theses of 1518, [ 1 ] presented during the Heidelberg disputation of 1518.

  4. Development of Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] Watch Tower publications claim that doctrinal changes and refinements result from a process of progressive revelation, in which God gradually reveals his will and purpose. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Watch Tower literature has suggested such enlightenment results from the application of reason and study, [ 14 ] the guidance of the holy spirit ...

  5. Revelation - Wikipedia

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    In general revelation, God reveals himself through his creation, such that at least some truths about God can be learned by the empirical study of nature, physics, cosmology, etc., to an individual. Special revelation is the knowledge of God and spiritual matters which can be discovered through supernatural means, such as scripture or miracles ...

  6. Progressive revelation (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    Progressive revelation is the doctrine in Christianity that the sections of the Bible that were written later contain a fuller revelation of God than the earlier sections. [citation needed] "Progressive revelation does not mean to say that the Old Testament is somehow less true than the New Testament. The progress was not from untruth to truth ...

  7. I Am that I Am - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]

  8. Book of Nature - Wikipedia

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    God was believed to have infused the material world with symbolic meaning, which, if understood by man, reveals higher spiritual truths. [ 12 ] What the Church Fathers needed, and did not inherit from the early Greek philosophers, was a method of interpreting the symbolic meanings embedded in the material world.

  9. The Economy of God - Wikipedia

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    The Economy of God, first published in 1968, is one of Witness Lee's principal works and is a compilation of messages he gave in the summer of 1964 in Los Angeles. These messages build on one of Watchman Nee 's classics, The Spiritual Man , which reveals that man is composed of three parts - spirit, soul, and body.