Divine Revelation

After today's thoughts on Biblical Revelation, I wanted to get down on paper some thoughts about how God's Revelation could be both complete and ongoing (our homework assignment's context). How to explain Revelation in terms of it being both COMPLETE and ONGOING...

-God is outside of time; he created Time when he created us, but he is mystically outside of it. He looks at us, as his Creation of all the Earth, as whole and complete... yet we are linear and inside of time. Throughout our lives parts of God's Revelation are revealed to us, in places where we are able to hear b/c the passage of time has enabled us to better understand certain parts of The Story, yet we cannot ever fully grasp the eternity and eternal significance of God and his Revelation b/c of our own finite lives and understanding, as such, is finite.

-Just as Jesus is "Eternally Begotten of the Father", so eternally and in perpetuity He is the Word that comes from God and returns to God and comes from God (etc.), so is the Revelation Complete (in the person of Jesus) and yet ongoing (in the eternal begotten-ness of it all).

-Just as the Sacrament of the Eucharist is eternal and yet here on Earth finite (with a beginning and an end), so is Revelation Eternal ("complete") and Ongoing (it has a beginning for us and ends with our Death here, so it is "finite" for us here...yet continues even after our death)

-In a basic sense, the Bible as Word of God is "complete", yet our Church Tradition is "ongoing", thus proving that Revelation in the most basic works of our teachings are both "complete" and "ongoing", still informing us and working within our own context of faith and the current times.

My First ACM Blog

re: blogging: I finally figured it out! yipee! I'm not such a troglodyte after all. ;-)

I'm beginning my paper this week after wading through all of the articles we were given to read, and I'm feeling like my image of God has been given new terminology and been somewhat expanded through reading what others have explored in their own faith and theological reflections. I certainly understand that not all people care to call God "Father", even though that is my favorite understanding of who God is in my life and the best way I can describe the relationship I feel exists between us. I'm looking forward to writing my paper, and I'd better get started, b/c later in the week is swallowed up with children and their Halloween preparations... and I don't want to get swamped on Friday night.

Cheers, and I'm so excited to have begun this journey! "A journey begins with a single step"... this might be a baby step, but I am on my way somewhere.