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PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN VI PROGRESSIVE REVELATION ACCOMODATIVE REVELATION The things that God revealed to humanity were not all given at once. His revelation was given in stages. This is known as progressive revelation. The Apostle Paul wrote. Heb 1:1 -2 God, who at many times and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, Thus the fulness of revelation came through Jesus when the Second Person in the Godhead - Son of God incarnated and dwelt among men. Even when Jesus the very God of very God residing among men could not reveal himself in all his fulness to mankind. Disciples could not understand Jesus as God until after resurrection even though the three disciples witnessed His glory in the Mount of Transfiguration. After the resurrection Jesus promised of the ongoing revelation to come. The reason simply is the inability of Man. "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now" (John 16:12). Hence there is continued revelation through the abiding presence of the third Person of Godhead - the Holy Spirit. "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. he will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you" (John 16:13-15). It is this period now being continued. One thing is certain. Man being limited to the basic lower worlds of Matter, Mind and Spirit cannot understand the Divine realities in full unless Man himself is in that realm. 131
PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN When we are talking about the nature of God and His character, the revelation is progressing revealing God more and more fully just like the picture get sharper and sharper showing the details by increasing pixels per inch. This is then one example of how one of our senses gives a progressive unveiling of the true picture. Dont forget that even in the material realm man have five senses and we get our images through all the five senses. This then is only in one realm or dimension of matter. Add to it the mental, spiritual and divine dimension and then an immense infinite dimensions. That will give us the wide idea of the need of a progressive revelation which leads us from an unsharp to sharper image. There are other dimensions even within the human realm. We know realities only through their properties. Properties are simply a function of interaction between two or more factors. Hence Paul speaks of understanding God through creation. 132
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