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"In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son." Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. (CCC 65)</blockquote>Paragraph 65 quotes St. John of the Cross (here in part),<blockquote>what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son</blockquote>Paragraph 66: <blockquote>'''There will be no further Revelation''' | "In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son." Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. (CCC 65)</blockquote>Paragraph 65 quotes St. John of the Cross (here in part),<blockquote>what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son</blockquote>Paragraph 66: <blockquote>'''There will be no further Revelation''' | ||
"The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/24/ CCC 66], quoting from Dei Verbum)</blockquote>"'''Salvation History'''" | "The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/24/ CCC 66], quoting from Dei Verbum)</blockquote> | ||
=== "'''Salvation History'''" === | |||
= the story of that revelation, starting with the Genesis and the Fall of Man and concluding with Christ's fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham (see [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/108/ CCC 422]). A large part of that history is man's willful separation from God and God's loving, patient gathering of him back, with the ultimate "gathering" in Jesus Christ. | |||
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|+ Scattering v. Gathering | |||
!'''Scattering''' | |||
!'''Gathering''' | |||
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|Fall of Man | |||
(Adam & Eve evicted from Eden) | |||
|Jesus ("the new Adam") | |||
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|Cain murders Abel | |||
|Seth’s family | |||
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|Tower of Babel | |||
|Pentecost | |||
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|the Flood | |||
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* Noah | |||
* Christ’s baptism (CCC 701) | |||
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| Break Covenant | |||
| Repair Covenant | |||
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| Sin | |||
| Repentance'' | |||
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| Pride | |||
| Humility | |||
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| Hell | |||
| Heaven | |||
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| Dying to sin | |||
| Living in Christ | |||
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| not going to Mass | |||
| going to Mass | |||
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|''Original sin'' | |||
|''Baptism'' | |||
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| the Church | |||
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== ''Proto-Evangelium'' == | == ''Proto-Evangelium'' == | ||