Revelation religion
Under revealed religion means a religion that forward calls to their self-concept that God is a (usually in writing retained) revelation he had received. These are especially the monotheistic religions : the Jewish , the Christian , the Islam and the Bahá'í Faith with their respective scriptures : Hebrew Bible , Christian Bible , the Koran and the sacred writings of the Bahai .
The alleged recipients of such divine revelations are called prophets . For example, Moses spoke to God face to face:
"But the LORD spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend."
The later prophets, such as B. Jeremiah are said to have considered themselves chosen by God:
"And the word of the LORD came to me: I knew you before I prepared you in the womb, and set you apart before you were born of your mother, and made you a prophet for the peoples."
The apostle Paul , who wrote an essential part of the New Testament , wrote about the origin of his preaching that he had received it as revelation:
“For I make it known to you, dear brethren, that the gospel that I preached is not of a human nature. For I did not receive or learn it from a person, but through a revelation from Jesus Christ. "
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literature
- Max Seckler : What does revealed religion mean? In: Jan Rohls, Gunther Wenz (Hrsg.): Vernunft des Glaubens. Scientific theology and church teaching. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Wolfhart Pannenberg. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-58152-1 , pp. 157-175.