Revelation
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
2:28 PM
The particular ways in which God reveals himself. There are 2 types of revelation noted within theology.
General Revelation - God's self-disclosure through natural means - creation and the human senses.
Psalms 8:3-4 (NIV) When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
Notice that creation informs the psalmist of God's care for mankind.
Romans 1:20 (NIV) 
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
What is "clearly seen" here is general revelation and it includes his power and nature.
Special Revelation - God's self-disclosure through the history of the descendants (Abraham & Sarah, Israel & Judah, Jesus, and the Church etc.) recorded within scripture. 
Matthew 16:16-17 (NIV) Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
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Jesus declares a special revelation had come to Peter straight from the Father.
Special revelation has three characteristics:
(1) it arises from God's grace and promises; 
(2) it is centered on Jesus Christ's identity and work;
(3) it is a personal yet public divine self-disclosure. In its final form it is called the “gospel” of Jesus Christ (Rom. 1:1–6, 16–17).
<Jensen, P. F. "Revelation." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, by Walter A. Elwell. Baker Publishing Group, 2017. Accessed October 12, 2023.> 
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