Fundamentals of Faith Language

- Is a product of human experience

- For us humans to be able to speak of God,
Revelation we have to speak of Him in terms of what our
senses can perceive
- - human beings are rational
- - from the Latin word : “re-velare” “Our images of God are products of ANTHROMORPHISM ”
- - to life the veil, to disclose or uncover
Anthropos - man; morphe – form
Words - The attribution of human qualities to non-
- are revelatory human beings including God.
- it is through it that we make ourselves known,
- disclose ourselves further through communication - There’s no such thing as perfect image.
They are signs they point toward greater
- the use of words is an affirmation of our needs
reality. We cannot do away with images ,
- it is gifts; but when we speak take note of
they’re all we got.
1. Articulate ideas
2. We share part of who we are “God’s personal loving communication to us of
3. Informative who He is and His plan to save us all in His
4. Words expresses our deepest feelings love.”
5. Words can heal or kill
“It is God’s reaching out to us in friendship, so
Functions we get to know and love Him (CFC 101)
1. Informative – merely to tell something or just
to converse Revelation
2. Expressive – we speak to disclose our • Latin: re-velare, which means to lift the veil,
deepest feelings disclose, to uncover
3. Appellative – we speak to be reciprocated;
• “God’s personal loving communication to
begging for a response
Us of who He isandHisplantosaveusallin
His love.”
With his whole being man gives his assent to • It is God’s reaching out to us in friendship, so
God the revealer we get to know and love Him.
CCC 143 • Salvation—purpose of God’s free act of self-
disclosing
CCC – CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Word of God is a Proposal
OUR HUMAN LIMITATION:
“There is nothing in the mind that is not first in our
senses” St. Thomas Aquinas
Revelation of Word of God
- God’s capability of limiting himself in
1 John 2:!2 says human words is in itself a manifestation of
“No one has ever seen God” his greatness.
- came from the Hebrew term "dabar"
God is a Spirit, God is a Mystery
which means "word" and also "event" or
- A spirit cannot be perceived by the senses. A "reality"
mystery transcends all human experience
four reasons of our existence C. Jesus Christ
1. know god • God revealing and God-revealed
2. love god • Fullness of God’s revelation
3. serve god • Ultimate self-communication
4. be happy eternally with him

DIFFERENT KINDS OF REVELATION

Word of God
• events in Salvation History
• the message of God proclaimed through
1. I. General and Special Revelation
prophets
• person of Jesus, who himself is the Word of God A. General or natural
• preaching of the Christian faith
• the general message of God to humanity - natural revelation
• the Bible - god's revelation through the created world
• involving a mode of communication - revelation as we experience it through nature
comprehensible by human beings
through the marvel of other created things

Avenues of Revelation B. Special

1. Revelation through Events - supernatural revelation

A. Creation
- would be unknown to us without god's
• First act of God’s revelation
supernatural intervention through his chosen
• Points to God as the cause of
messengers
everything
• The goodness of creation reflects the
- St. Thomas equates this to us in the bible
goodness of God

B. History
- additional effort exorted from God
• Events seen through the eyes of faith become
Hebrew people associate moses with ten
evidences
commandments – the side kwentos are just the
• Whether secular of religious, communal or
manifestation of god to moses
personal, pleasant or tragic points as actions
of God
2. I. Private and Public Revelation
2. Revelation through Persons 3.
4. A. PUBLIC

A. Prophets
- essential truths of our Christian faith revealed by
• “Spokespersons of God.”
Christ & taught by the Church
• Proclaiming a religious interpretation - because it was revealed by Jesus Christ it as for all
of history. of humanity because It is the truth that is necessary
B. The Church for our salvation
• A collective discernment and sense of - imposes the obligation of faith; adherence is
divine actions. necessary, binding all of us regardless of any
They ritualize through the ff: religion because it doesn’t harm us
‣ Preaching of the Word, - final and complete in the person of Jesus Christ
‣ worship celebration, - divine revelation for it is Jesus Christ who revealed
‣ acts of service and charity. it
- passed on to one generation to another and it’s the ⇢ Hebrews 11:1 – Faith is the assurance of
responsibility of the church to explain and teach us things hoped for the conviction of things not
the revelation of God (handed down through seen.
generation and ages kaya di na siya mafofollow

B. PRIVATE – do not add to the public revelation

MODELS OF FAITH
- Church-recognized messages from apparitions or
1. Abraham – By faith Abraham obeyed
mystical experiences
when he was called to go out to a place
- do not add to public revelation of Jesus Christ which he was to receive and inheritance
- Anak niya, Isaac, Father of multitude of
- no obligation of belief nations;
- Abraham became the father of all who
- We need this kind of experiences to boost our believe
experiences and faith
- Roman4:11
- private revelation is the appreciation of public
revelation more clearly and growth in spiritual life

“THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE REVELATION OF GOD 2. Mary – bethrode to Joseph

AND NO ONE WILL FOLLOW BECAUSE - LUKE 1:20-24 – “ BLEST is she who
EVERYTHING IS REVEALED TO US AND PUBLIC trusted, that the Lord’s word to her would
REVELATION HAS BEEN DOWN TO US THROUGH be fulfilled
AGES .”

FAITH – the desire for God written in the human

FAITH heart

⇢ natural reaction to hold it - God never ceases to draw man to himself

(CCC27)
⇢ Latin word : ob-audire
A. Desire to know God
⇢ To obey in faith is to submit freely to the word
that has been heard because its truth is
guaranteed by God. (CCC144)
CCC 27, it is the heart of God to know Him
⇢God calls men to serve him in spirit and in
truth
- Desire for God is written in human heart.
Because man is created by God and FOR
⇢ The very nature of faith in conscience, but not
GOD, and God will never cease to draw
coerced (hindi pinpilit)
himself
⇢ This fact received its fullest manifestation in - Only in God we find the truth and
Christ (CCC 160) happiness, he never stops searching for
 - We will always have vacuum that is filled 3. Created and redeemed by God – God
by God; and we misunderstand by filling didn’t become flesh for angels or
it with material stuffs , minerals but for US,
4. Limited but original – finite creature ; our
CCC 30 – although MAN CAN FORGET OR human body FINITES, even though we
REJECT GOD, he never CEASES to call every are redeemed by God, But we are
man to seek Him, so as to find life and ORIGINAL and cannot be duplicated
happiness - thats why the Catholic church doesn’t
believe in reincarnation
- The search for God demand of MAN - if we die, we die
EVERY EFFORT AND INTELECT
- A SOUND WILL 5. Embodied and historical
- UPRIGHT HEART - Even though we are finite there is a spirit
that comes back to God
THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE HIERARCHY - EMBODIED SPIRIT – we are a spirit
BEINGS formed in a bodily structure; kaluluwa na
may katawan; pag namatay bangkay na
God, angels, humans, animals, plants, minerals
lang
Ø There is something about human that - but remember the human body has the
make us in the third level temple of spirit it is our obligation to take
Ø We can make decisions and capacity to care of it
thin if we would act as human or animals - it is through our body that we make
but we change HISTORICAL
Ø FALLEN ANGELS : when they said no to - we are bounded by space and time ,
God, they actually fall and became product of the past but now determines
human and REMAIN AS THAT your future, we are a work in progress
Ø For HUMANS; we are capable of and we open our doors for new
changing
“ Anyone who wants to believe needs a heart”

If youw ant to know you need to believe-

HUMANS ARE GIVEN OBEDIENTIAL POTENCY prerequisite

Ø The natural facility to know God, and B. THE CAPACITY TO KNOW GOD THROUGH
natural law to know what is good REASON
Ø Given by God to us - Go beyond what our eyes see
- Know God through reasons
- The person who seeks God discovers
THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN PERSON
certain wats of coming to Know him
1. Conscious being – you are given intellect (CCC, 31)
you are capable of reflection; - Natural revelation ; creation;
2. Inherent human dignity – with the supernatural revelation; through events,
capability to reason church, and prohphets to got deeper to
what God revealed, through the reason
Gave by God, we beatific vision ; we
 are able to build a relationship to be able 4. GREATEST BEING – universal Good, more or
to see God less good, there must be something that causes it
Ø God revealed himself to man and gave perfection
him the Grace of being able to welcome
this revelation in faith > degrees of perfection point who has max of
all possible qualities
FIVE EVIDENCES OF PROVING THE
EXISTENCE OF GOD 5.INTELIGENT DESIGNER – GOD, acting
proof, directs all things with a purposes
- St Thomas Aquinas
> order and beauty visible in the world requires
- Does god exist?
intelligent designer
- Summa theologica
- what we commonly observe with our Ø some natural things lack knowledge but
senses maybe directed to reach its goal by
something intelligent
1. FIRST MOVER – moving object , it is Ø there is intelligent being
impossible for an object to move, that there is a
cause behind it; we observe movement; this 700 years old
movement started with God,
Personal experiences makes who we are,
- nothing in the mind is not first in the senses;
everything is perceived though the senses – st
Thomas

Ø the series of motion necessitate

Ø nothing can move by itself

2. FIRST CAUSE – everything has a cause,

action that produces a result, we must breathe
air to be able to live, HE IS THE FIRST CAUSE

> the series of cause and effect

> There are series of efficient causes in the =

world nothing is the efficient cause by itself

3.NECESSARY BEING - argument of neccessity

and possibility, possibility of not existing, but
there is never a time that doesn’t cause
existence, everything in the God has always
existed and found necessity through his
existence

> every one of us is a contingent being; God is

the non-contingent being

To bring forth existence