God Reveals His "Plan of Loving Goodness"
"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."
God, who "dwells in unapproachable light", wants to communicate his own divine life to the men he freely created, in order to adopt them as his sons in his only-begotten Son.
By revealing himself God wishes to make them capable of responding to him, and of knowing him and of loving him far beyond their own natural capacity.
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Artist: Kwaya ya Mt. Petro
Song: Umeniita Nimeitika Wito
Download Audio Mp3The divine plan of Revelation is realized simultaneously "by deeds
and words which are intrinsically bound up with each other" and
sheds light on each other.
It involves a specific divine pedagogy: God
communicates himself to man gradually.
He prepares him to welcome
by stages the supernatural Revelation that is to culminate in the person
and mission of the incarnate Word, Jesus Christ.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons repeatedly speaks of this divine pedagogy using
the image of God and man becoming accustomed to one another: the
Word of God dwelt in man and became the Son of man in order to
accustom man to perceive God and to accustom God to dwell in man,
according to the Father's pleasure.
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Artist: Kwaya ya Mt. Yuda
Song: Nakumbuka kule nilikotoka
Download Audio Mp3By natural reason, man can know God with certainty, on the basis of
his works. But there is another order of knowledge, which man cannot
possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine Revelation.
Through an utterly free decision, God has revealed himself and given
himself to man. This he does by revealing the mystery, his plan of
loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of
all men.
God has fully revealed this plan by sending us his beloved
Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
