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Christianity is the religion of the 'Word of God', a word which is 'not a written and mute word, but the Word which is incarnate and living". [30] Geisler and Nix speak of Biblical inerrancy as meaning that, in its original form, the Bible is totally without error, and free from all contradiction, including the historical and scientific parts. [31]
General revelation, or natural revelation, [1] is a concept in Christian theology that refers to God's revelation as it is 'made to all men everywhere', [1] which is discovered through natural means, such as observations of nature (the physical universe), philosophy and reasoning. Christian theologians use the term to describe the knowledge of ...
"And so great was the faith of Enoch that he led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his command; and the rivers of water were turned out of their course; and the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness ...
Direct revelation is a term used by some Christian churches to express their belief in a communication from God to a person by words, impression, visions, dreams, or actual appearance. Direct revelation is believed to be an open communication between God and man, or the Holy Spirit and man, without any other exterior (secondary) means.
The Book of Revelation differs from the rest of the New Testament, because it contains mostly visions and prophesies. [15] Siku represents this by telling the revelation through the dreams of a girl in a hospital in the 21st century. There are also several examples where contemporary ideas come in.
The first vision that the author experiences is that of entering Heaven and seeing God's throne (Revelation 4:1–6). In Revelation, God is described as "having the appearance like that of jasper and carnelian with a rainbow-like halo as brilliant as emerald". Around God's throne are twenty four other thrones, on which sit elders in white
A detail of the Gabriel Revelation Stone on display in the Israel Museum (fair use full view).. Gabriel's Revelation, also called Hazon Gabriel (the Vision of Gabriel) [1] or the Jeselsohn Stone, [2] is a stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person.
Revelation 21:1: A new heaven and new earth, Mortier's Bible, Phillip Medhurst Collection. The New Earth is an expression used in the Book of Isaiah (65:17 & 66:22), 2 Peter (), and the Book of Revelation in the Bible to describe the final state of redeemed humanity.