Saint Michael the Archangel Parish

21 Manning St

Hudson, MA 01749

God's Self Revelation

God replied to Moses: I am who I am... 
 (Exodus 3: 14)

"All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." 
Matthew 11:27

How does God reveal himself to us?


God reveals himself to us through the natural law, through his creation, through his Word, and through the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ represents the fullness of Divine Revelation.


What can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. 
Romans 1:19-20



When the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law. They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts. 
Romans 2:14-15

God has written upon our hearts the natural law, the innate ability to know of his existence and to arrive at a basic sense of good and evil, of truth and falsehood and of the duty to seek always that which is good and true. By human reason we can develop this knowledge of God and of how he wishes us to live. Keeping the natural law is ultimately what fulfills us as human persons. 

Both faith and reason teach us that the origin of the world was by creation. "In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth"(Genesis 1:1), the Bible proclaims in its opening sentence. When God creates, he imprints a "mark" on his creation, and through that mark we can learn something about God himself.


When sin entered the world, our ability to reason and to discern good and truth became clouded. To save all people from sin, God revealed himself gradually and provided the grace necessary to aid human reason. He reveals himself through his works, his prophets, his sacred Word in Scripture, and most perfectly in the Word, Jesus Christ, the Mediator and fullness of all Revelation:

In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son. (Hebrews 1:1-2)



The Holy Spirit, as Christ promised, continues to "teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you." (John 14: 26)


The Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 50 and 73 addresses this question.

-The Didache Bible

Philip said to him, Master "show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."  Jesus said to him..."Whoever has seen me has seen the Father."...

John 14: 8-9

Revelation is the self-disclosure of the living God and his plan to save us.  Revelation shows us that God desires to have an intimate and loving relationship with everyone.

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