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'''Christ is the fulfillment of all of God's promises.''' | '''Christ is the fulfillment of all of God's promises.''' | ||
From [https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/20/ CCC 51]:<blockquote>"It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will. His will was that men should have access to the Father, through Christ, the Word made flesh, in the Holy Spirit, and thus become sharers in the divine nature."</blockquote> | |||
== Stages of Revelation == | |||
From CCC Part 1. Section 1, Ch. 2, Art II: | |||
=== THE STAGES OF REVELATION ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/22/ CCC 32-64]) === | |||
# '''In the beginning God makes himself known''' | |||
# '''The Covenant with Noah''' | |||
# '''God chooses Abraham''' | |||
# '''God forms his people Israel''' | |||
These "stages" lead to God's fullest revelation in "Christ Jesus" ([https://www.usccb.org/sites/default/files/flipbooks/catechism/24/ CCC 65-67]) | |||
=== '''CHRIST JESUS -- "MEDIATOR AND FULLNESS OF ALL REVELATION"<sup>25</sup>''' === | |||
<blockquote>'''God has said everything in his Word''' | |||
"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'''" is the story of that revelation, starting with, | |||
== ''Proto-Evangelium'' == | == ''Proto-Evangelium'' == | ||