Why is divine revelation important to us?

Answer 1

Well, to begin, faith in divine revelation cannot be fully related to human experience in general. Unless of course every human being has experienced, or believes they have experienced, a situation involving divine revelation, which everyone can agree as false.

If an agnostic approach is held, defined as a belief that human knowledge is limited to experience, and the perspective of human experience understood as a broad outline, to question the importance of faith in divine revelation in relation to a general view of human experience is at this point no more than a waste of curious thought. I say this because the anti-theist community claims that no religious follower KNOWS anything regarding divine or spiritual subjects, they only BELIEVE. And this possibility must be considered when speaking of divine subjects. Human experience is understood, at least through universal knowledge as well as logic, reason, and fact, as an adolescent natural occurrence, and with that, it is widely known that the human race is far from omniscient (not that we are supposed to be or even will be omniscient). If we are to relate human experience with divine revelation, we must first know and prove to ourselves, and to others, that these said revelations are credible.

So in summary, faith in divine revelation in relation to human experience is of no significance when considering the various point of views that are accepted as counter possibilities that contradict the faithful. If the question was instead written as, "What is the importance of KNOWLEDGE in divine revelation in relation to human experience?" Then we would have a totally different discussion.

Answer 2

Divine Revelation is important for several reason, the most important one, of course, is that Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, is the fullness of God's Revelation to us, and without Him, we cannot be saved. As St. Paul says in 1 Timothy: God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." that is, of Christ Jesus (Cf. John 14:6) Christ must be proclaimed to all nations and individuals, so that this revelation may reach to the ends of the earth (Dei Verbum 7; cf. 2 Corinthians 1:20; 3:16-4:6) - extracted from the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 74.

Answer 3

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Divine revelation is of considerable importance to some, but of no interest or importance to others. It depends on one's personal faith.