How God reveal himself to us humans

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Loving Father, thank you
for today. Thank you for
ways in which You provide
for us all. For your
protection and love we
thank you.

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Help us to focus our hearts
and minds now of what we
are about to learn. Inspire
us by Your Holy Spirit as
we interact.

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Guide us by your eternal
grace as we discover more
about you. We ask this in
the name of Jesus. Amen

6. God’s Revelation
The Holy Trinity

7. Learning Targets
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8. Activity
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A. Name three (3)
persons close to you
and list down as many
things as you can say
about the person.

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Questions:
1. Have you been influenced by these
persons? What traits/characteristics are
their influences in you? List one from
each of them.

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Points to keep:
- Revelation is God’s personal loving
communication to us of who He is and His plan
to save us all in His love.
- Creation is the foundation of “all God’s saving
plans” the beginning of the history of salvation
that culminates in Christ.
- God is the source of everything that exist
- God created us to share in His love.

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How does God reveal Himself?
God reveal Himself:
• in Creation (natural sign)
• In Sacred Scripture (Biblical sign)
• His continuing presence by the Holy Spirit in His
people - the Church (Ecclesial sign)
• Prayer and Sacramental worship
(Liturgical sign)
• His interior presence (Grace)

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God’s creative action:
• God creates by wisdom and love
• God creates out of nothing
• God creates an ordered and good world
• God transcends creation and is present
to it
• God upholds and sustains creation

13. THE
MYSTERY
OF THE
TRINITY

14. The Doctrine of the Trinity is one of the
simplest and basic knowledge. Yet, it is also
one of the most complicated and hardest object
of knowledge to be explained – even if we used
our faith and reason. Many thinkers, Fathers of
the Church and even theologians tried to
explain in fully this object of knowledge.

15. But, all of them failed to exhaust the richness of
this knowledge. Rather, many of them
misinterpreted the reality of the Trinity. In order
to us not fall into the same track of
misinterpretation, we must accept that the
capacity of our human mind is not enough and
will never be enough to contain the Mystery of
the Trinity.

16. On the other hand, we must not stop looking for
the knowledges that we can extract in God’s
revelations. For the reason that these revelations
of God leads to who God really is. And, even if we
cannot fully understand the reality of Trinity, at
least we can have bits of knowledge about Trinity
by the help of God’s revelations as our stepping
stone to knowing the Trinity.

17.  Monotheism – having one God
 The Scripture (especially the Old
Testament)
 Liturgical Calendar (For the
Catholics)
 Some Liturgical activities

18. Is there an idea or
concept of the Trinity
in the Old Testament?

19. Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me… 6
Isaiah 9:6-7 For to us a child is born to us a son is given and the government
will be on his shoulders.
John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.1
Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit..
John 15:26 But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he
will bear witness to me…
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20.  Anthropomorphism –
Attribution of God on Human, both
physical and emotional
 Transcendental – beyond this
world
 Immanence – within this world

21.  Deism – deny God’s
intervention to the world.
 Pantheism – A teaching that
tells us that all or everything
is God

22. Relation Inside the Trinity
 Paternity/ Generation – the relation of
the Father to the Son
 Filiation – the relation of the Son to the
Father
 Spiration – the relation of the Father
and The Son
 Procession – the relation of the Son and
the Spirit

23. Elemental Trinitarianism
 From the start there are the
Elements of the Trinity but there
was no language to be fitted.

24.  From God’s attribute (from the Old
Testament)(Spirit and Word/Wisdom)
It becomes Personal/ Person in the
New Testament
 The 2 Climax of Salvation History
 Christological event
 Out pouring of the Holy Spirit

26. God the Father
 In the Old Testament, people
cannot often called/ addressed
God as Father because they
preserve the reverence of God
and the transcendentality of God.

27. God the Father
 They call Him “Father” because
they (Israelites) are the chosen
people of God.
 Jesus called God “Father” because
He is the Son of God, and it
separates/ distinguishes Jesus to
the Father.

28. Jesus the Christ
 God is being called Father because
He has a Son. No one is being called
a Father without a Son or adopted
son.
 The only beloved Son of God

29. Jesus the Christ
 The Word “Lord” pertains only to the
most powerful and almighty. So in the
early times, Christians only addressed
God as the Lord.
 Jesus Christ is not only an instrument of
salvation but he is our salvation. The work
of salvation is the work of God. Therefore
Jesus Christ is God but not Yahweh.

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Jesus as the Goal, Content and
Agent of Revelation
Goal the key, center and purpose of
man’s history
Content the revealed one
Agent the mediator

31. The Spirit of God
 Life-giving power of God (according to St.
Paul)
 Pneumatology
 Communion of Love between the Father
and Son.
 Holy Spirit = New Life = New relationship
between the Father and the Son

33. 1. From the lectures and the video, what is
your understanding of the Holy Trinity?
2. St. Thomas Aquinas’ teaching on
The Trinity asserts that "God is Father,
God is Son, and God is Holy Spirit," and that
these are not three but one God. Explain his
teachings by giving personal experience in
your relationship with them.

34. Exit ticket
▪ What valuable insight did
you learn today?
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35. References:
▪ Hiesberger, J. M. & Oxford University Press (2007). The Catholic Bible: New American
Bible: including the revised New Testament and Psalms translated from the original
languages with critical use of all ancient sources: New York: Oxford University Press.
▪ Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (2005) Catechism for Filipino Catholics,
ECCE, CBCP, Word and Life Publications
▪ The Village Church Resources, (April 11, 2019) How God Reveals Himself-
Explainer
 NDMU campus Ministry (Sept. 9,’20)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvOatGpV2U
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