God’s Revelation: The Foundation of The concept of “kagandahang

Faith loob”

Feeling (Pagpapadama) “Loob”

-Making someone feel what one -“the within”, the core of our
want to convey personhood as Filipinos and to our
most
-An important feature of our
(Filipino) communication patterns -organizing center of human reality
and the wellspring of feeling
-communicating the intuitively (damdamin), thought (isip) and
affective-cognitive way behavior (kilos)

Intuitive because it is not rationaly Other cognates of loob

calculated
(Refer to ppt)
Affective-cognitive because feeling
(dama) intimately combines feeling “Maganda”
and thought in the action
-literally means beauty with a touch
Pagpapapdama means whatever is of charm, it combines true goodness
communicated has an effect (may and heartwarming allure
dating at may talab)
-an interweaving of what is ethically
God’s revelation (God’s and aesthetically positive
Pagpapadama)
The most important manifrstation
-makes us experience of maganda
himself/herself
-when we are positively touched by
-make us feel love events

-communicates and initiates his -the general experience of harmony

kagandang loob in life and when everybody seems
to be in order

Relationships that build up as when

we people relate with sincerity and
reliability
Grandeaur of nature as delightful

Spontaneously extend kindness Life-giving

Join hand to accomplish a common -God’s relationship with people is

task deemed important directed towards their well being

Kagandahang loob is winsome -expressed happiness and total

goodness, “ang kabutihang well-being
nakakabighani at nakakakit”
-God is the souce of ginhawa (total
For Filipinos, kagandandahang-loob well-being)
is pure positivity that captivates and
wins people over -Jesus is the guarantee that God’s
promises will be fulfilled
God’s Revelation
-God supplies us with everything to
God’s kagandang loob (winsome help us live a good life
goodness)
-God is gracious
Loob (within) Ganda (beauty)
Unconditional and Universal
= a goodness that wins one over and
positively transforms such person -comes from God’s personal
initiative and graciously free (bukal
The attributes of God’s sa kalooban)
Revelation
-God took the first step to relate to
Relational us without any conditions

-involves the deepest relationship -God’s pagpapadama is never

between God and people’s authentic discriminatory
reality of the self (loob)
-God’s guidance and inspiration are
-cannot be demonstrated in given all to all equally
isolation from fellow human beings
Transcends Human Limitation
-the invisible God out of abundance
of His love speaks to people as -God’s lavish benevolence that far
friends and lives with Him exceed human expectation
-excessive manifestations of
goodness and generosity which
goes beyond the limits of necessity,
duty or sufficiency or what is
considered usual or proper or just

Historical The BIBLE: the primary

Witness
-God’s pagpapadama occurred in to the experience of God’s
sequence of events that lead to its revelation
completion in Christ
Scripture
-Salvation is revealed in and
through ordinary day-to-day - The most fundamental testimony
experiences of people to God’s experience of
pagpapadama among Christians
-God’s kagandahang loob is made
visible and palpable in our everyday - Believers are able to understand
life what it means to fall and stay in love
with God.
Trinitarian
- Mirrors what the faith community
-Father: abundance of his love had experienced of God

-Jesus: the Mediator, the deepest - The collection if what had been
truth about God and salvation made articulated and written about the
clear to Him relationship between God and
people at different times and
-Spirit: assists, moves the heart and various places
turn it to God
Scripture
Apathy
Latun – scriptura: what has been
- Lack of feeling written

- Lack of emotion Greek – biblia: consists of many

books
- Lack of interest
The Books of the Bible
- Lack of concern
Old Testament
 - written on the tablets of stone -The Bible reflects to the combined
spirit of Judaism and Christianity
- refers to Tanak, the Jewish and is indicative of the kind of faith
Scripture tradition which Christians
subscribe
- Jesus was a Jew
-We belong to the community of
faith called Church, originated from
Jesus Christ who brings salvation
New Testament
from God
- Written on the hearts of
-We are part of a faith community
people
whose identity is derived from the
- Refers to the Christian legacy of the past.
scripture
The Development of the Bible
- Jesus was not a Christian
1. Experience of God in Jesus
Testament and the articulation in
language of such experience.
Bond
2. Selection from different
 Hebrew- Berit expressions

 Which God entered to with 3. Recognition of the collection

Israel as canons

Provison The Bible as Canon

 Latin- Testamentum - Greek-kanon-measure

 Arrangement - The primary norm of our

understanding of the
Covenant Christian faith

 English- Testament - The fundamental reference

point in formulating doctrinal
 Agreement between God and statements in the Church
people
The authority of the Bible
Judaeo-Christian Tradition
 - Articulated Reading a classic as a
conversation
- Reflected about and modified
The Bible is a “classic” because
- Written down
- Of its supreme importance in
- Edited the understanding of faith

- Finally screened through - It is read, consulted and

careful selection referred again and again

Experiences of God were expressed - It is a literary masterpiece

in the following literary forms:
Purpose of the Bible
- Narratives
- Readiing
- Historical accounts
- Studying
- Legislation
- meditating
- Elaborate reflections
*nourishing one’s faith-life
- Songs communally and personally

- Poems What happens when we read the

Bible
- Proverbs
- we speak to the Bible
- Letters
- We listen to the Bible
The collection of books
eventually chosen by the - The Bible speaks to us
community of believers as
faithfully expressing and - The Bible listens to us
mirroring what it believed about
God and serve as the main The scriptural text is a both a
reference point for further window that allows the reader to
articulations of faith. see something of the world describe
in the text and a mirror, which the
Reading the Bible reader finds the issues and
concerns of their own situation The Living Word of God
reflected.
-Scriptures makes known God who
is not silent nor distant from people
but concerned with his creatures
The Sacred Scripture: Nature and
Purpose -Scripture is living and powerful

Inspired word of God -it is effective, sharper that any two-

edged sword, penetrating even
-God guided human authors to between soul and spirit., joints and
compose the written accounts of marrows and able to discern
God’s revelation to God’s people reflections and thoughts of the
heart
-Divine inspiration- a special grace
given to the authors Sacramental

-Inspiration- the directing influence -a tangible material reality

of the Holy Spirit under which the signifying and bringing about the
sacred writers wrote all that God presence of spiritual reality
wanted them to write
-the incarnation of the divine word
Authors of the Scripture- both is expressed in human language
human beings and God
-the presence of God dwells in and
Inerrancy in the Scripture is proclaimed through the inspired
scriptural narratives which the
-being a divinely inspired book, the divine and human encounters call
Scripture teaches firmly, faithfully for personal conversion and
without error transformation
-religious message contains the
truth which God wanted to
communicate and call everyone to
share through Jesus and the Holy
Spirit The Book of the Church

-the inspired word of God is -a record of God’s dealings with his

provoking and animating which people, the Church and how they
moves people to faith responded to, remembered and
interpreted those experiences
-collection of inspired books, faculties of reason, affectively and
written by persons from the people imagination
of God, for the people of God and
about the God-experience of the Reading the Bible
people of God
-The Bible has supreme importance
The Work of Art in the understanding of faith

The scriptural brings 3 attributes of -Interpreting the Bible is primarily a

beauty: communal undertaking

1. Shines and illuminates the -It is the community of believers

truth about the divine that gave birth to the Bible and it is
mystery the community that recognizes the
authority
2. Has from and structure,
symmetry and integrity By knowing about the faith
indicative of the beautiful, experiences of others and how they
catching the mind with its struggled to be faithful despite
silent coherence difficulties, we are helped in making
up our mind
3. Can inspire, guide and
empower the readers to The text speaks to us as we listen to
goodness and truth the experiences of people and how
they have responded positively and
-Biblical language contains negatively
profound literary from
communicating the truth about God Literary form of genre (French)-
kind or type
-Rich and full of poetic language,
figurative discourse, symbol and Tells the readers something about
myth the intent of the writers

-the word of God has the power to Includes the external (form) and
seize, captivate and enchant the internal (attitude, purpose)
readers characteristics

-helps and encourages human being If the reader misunderstands the

to use and develop all human genre, he misunderstands the
meaning
Tools & Technology in
Understanding the Bible

Exegesis

- This is what the text

expresses effectively (biblical
scholar)

- Comes from a combination in

Greek ex (out of) AGO (to
lead) and SIS (process)

- The process of leading out the

meaning of the text

Eisegesis

- This is my understanding of
the text (bible sharer)

- Comes from a Greek

preposition EIS (into)

- Reading and understanding

the text in the way that the
reader wants to understand
it

On being mindful of the CONTEXT

- It is imperative to be
cognizant of the contextual
factors that affect on biblical
writings when reading and
reflecting them

- Biblical texts were written

and cultural and historical
contexts different from ours