Two ways God Speaks
This kind of revelation is God making Himself known through nature — a sunset, the ocean, the mountains.
What is Natural Revelation?
The number of authors the Bible has.
What is two?
What is handed on through spoken words, such as the Sacraments.
What is Sacred Tradition?
"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ."
Who is St. Jerome?
Because God is the author of Sacred Scripture, this must be true of all of it.
What is that all of it is true?
God revealing Himself directly, speaking to all mankind through chosen individuals and interventions in human history.
What is Divine Revelation?
The Person of the Trinity who guides the writers of Scripture.
Who is the Holy Spirit?
What is handed on through writing; also called Written Tradition.
What is Sacred Scripture?
He called the Holy Scriptures "our letters from home."
Who is St. Augustine of Hippo?
Because man is the author, Scripture is written in many different ways — which means it needs this.
What is interpretation?
According to our notes, this is WHY God chooses to reveal Himself — two verbs.
What is so that we can know Him and love Him?
The guidance of the Holy Spirit given to the writers of the Bible so they write down what God wants written.
What is Divine Inspiration?
Sacred Tradition plus Sacred Scripture equals this.
What is the Deposit of Faith?
He said the Scriptures were not given to be enclosed in books, but to be engraved upon our hearts.
Who is St. John Chrysostom?
True or false: "All of Scripture is true" means every sentence is a literal, scientific fact.
What is false?
Mrs. Martin telling the class a little about herself on the first day was the classroom example of this.
What is Divine Revelation?
God chooses the people who will write Scripture. This is the second thing God does as author.
What is give them the message to write down?
The teaching office of the Church.
What is the Magisterium?
If Scripture is a letter from home, this is the home St. Augustine means.
What is heaven?
A classmate says the Bible needs no interpretation because God wrote it. In two words, what his answer is.
What is half right?
Finish it: the whole point of Divine Revelation is to show that Jesus came to earth and completed this.
What is human salvation?
Man freely responds to the invitation — and then he physically writes the message down using these two things of his own.
What are his own style and delivery?
These are the two things the Magisterium does with the Deposit of Faith.
What is interprets it and teaches it?
Chrysostom's point in plain English: Scripture is meant to do this instead of sitting on a shelf.
What is change the way we live?
Name both authors of Sacred Scripture and say in one sentence how each one is truly an author.
Who are God and man? God chooses the writer and gives the message; man freely responds and writes it in his own style.