When Abraham was going to sacrifice his son after God told him to
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What is meant by revelation?
a religious believer means when God shows himself throgh either a direct vision, dream or meeting.
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General revelation
It is indirect and available to everyone. Some truths about God can be revealed through reaso, conscience, the natural world or moral sense.
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Special Revelation
It is direct revelation to an individual or a group. Including, dreams, visions, experience and prophecy.
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In special revelation...
God is PERSONAL, God has chosen people specifically to communicate with.
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Example of special revelation
Saul had a vision of a bright light on his way to damascus. A voice asked why Saul was hunting down christians.
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General revelation...
Is how people generally come to know about and believe in God. They don't have any speial experiences but they gradually come to faith through a variety of experiences/
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Impact of revelation
when people experience it will have a large ipact on their life as a person and could often completely change it
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There is no scientific proof!
Generally revelation and belief in it is down ones own interpretation and one persons testimony
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The holy book
shows god is benevolent-because he gave the people a book to learn from and personal- the qu'ran tells muslims how to relate and get back to god
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nature
shows god is omnipotent- to have created something so numinous and omniscient- to know how to create something numinous
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"God is an illusion"
reality- instincts and feelings/ people are convinced/ god could ue our dreams. illusiion- cannot be proved onl persuaded/ people may be mistaken i dying or desperate
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a religious believer means when God shows himself throgh either a direct vision, dream or meeting.
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What is meant by revelation?
Card 3
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It is indirect and available to everyone. Some truths about God can be revealed through reaso, conscience, the natural world or moral sense.
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Card 4
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It is direct revelation to an individual or a group. Including, dreams, visions, experience and prophecy.
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Card 5
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God is PERSONAL, God has chosen people specifically to communicate with.
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