REVELATION

“Searching for God in the Bible”

Summary: Revelation and Faith
Summary of Revelation and Faith
Summary of Revelation and Faith

A Gift...
Openness to see God

Openness to know God

Openness to befriend God

You are
better than Know
all these
Love

Serve
Bible
 Four Picture
Guess the Word/s
Four Picture Words

ORWDE FOO ODGE

 Four Picture Words

OTRYST FOO HETS BERHEWP OEPPLED

 Four Picture Words

POLBOK GOF HAFWSITLH

Four Picture Words

HETS OLYHP KROOB

 Four Picture Words

OSTRYP OFT KUSJESOP TSPSHCRI

 Four Picture Words

POSLTOQRY OGDF ACOTDIREGTON

 What is the Bible?
• The Bible is ... (complete the sentence)
– A Holy Book
– Living Word of God
– Stories of Jesus
– Stories of our salvation
– Religious Book
– Book about Truth
– Stories of creation
– Inspired by God
Sa totoo lang! The Bible is like a ...

Window... We see and discover the stories

of a people who are in deep
friendship with God....

World...
Lives...
Struggles and hopes...

Joys and pains...

Frustrations and success...

Sa totoo lang ulit! The Bible is also similar to a ...
Mirror...

We see and discover our selves

who are also in deep friendship
with God.... World...

Lives...
Struggles and hopes...

Joys and pains...

Frustrations and success...

The story in the Bible... Is also our stories...

The Bible is like a window...

It tells about the people and world of long ago....

The Bible is like a mirror...

It tells about our lives and world today....

We learn Bible...
 Bible
“Ta biblia” (Greek)
•“the books”
•Collection of many works
•And not a product of a
single person or group
•Written in different
situations, times and
places
•And in different forms or
genre...
Bible Inspired by God

The authors were inspired

by God to write their
experiences of God...

They experience God first...

They reflect on this experiences...

Then they put them into writing...

 Bible There is truth in it...
Truth...

Truth in the Bible is different

from factual event...

Truth in the Bible is...

the religious message in it ...

The religious message about God...

Interpreted with the eyes of faith...

It depends on how close you are

To God...
Bible Living Word of God...

As source of inspiration...

As challenge for us today...

It is a dead book...unless we relate

it to our lives...

The stories in the Bible...

are our stories

God speaks to us in the Bible...

in all events...in different stories...
OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT
AGREEMENT COVENANT
TESTAMENT
 OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT

Agreement between God Agreement between God

and the Jewish people or Hebrews and the people through Jesus
through Moses
 LIBERATOR
CREATOR

JUST

PROVIDER
COMPASSIONATE
 OLD TESTAMENT

PENTATEUCH OR TORAH HISTORICAL BOOKS

Instructions or teachings Struggles of the Hebrews

To reach the promised land

WRITINGS
Reflections on human life PROPHETIC LITERATURE
In the context of faith
Energize the people to love God
and criticize them when they
run away from God.
 THEMES: OLD TESTAMENT

God is holy and great God is revealed

as freely giving
total love and fidelity

God promises a saviour

to restore righteousness
Peace and justice Justice and love
in the kingdom of Israel are the true marks
of the people of God
 NEW TESTAMENT

Letters to the Hebrews

Four Gospels

Synoptics Pauline Letters

Matthew Luke Matthew Genuine writings of Paul
1 Thessalonians Galatians
Spiritual Gospel Philippians Romans
John 1 & 2 Corinthians Philemon
Probably Not Paul
Acts of the Apostles 2 Thessalonians Ephesians
Colossians
Luke’s Volume two Not written by Paul
it tells the history Titus 1 & 2 Timothy
Seven letters to all Christians
of early Christians
James Peter John Jude Revelation
 THINGS COMMON TO THE 4 GOSPELS

1. Jesus was born 4 BC during which Herod died.

2. Spent childhood days in Nazareth.
3. Baptized by John the Baptizer.
4. Called the 12 disciples.
5. Taught in Galilee.
6. Preached the Reign of God.
7. Went to Jerusalem for the Passover.
8. Create disturbance around the temple.
9. Sacred meal with disciples.
10. Persecuted by Jewish authorities.
11. Executed by the same authorities and Pontius Pilate, and was put to death
on the cross.
1. Write your own Scripture...
Around 3 to 5 pages and with pictures.
Computerized using book Antigua as its font type
and the font size is 12.

2. Make a personal prayer. Think yourself as a Prophet of God

called to do good as a citizen of this country (your country).
Place it on 1 bond paper, computerized and with picture or image
that is related to your prayer as backdrop or background.