Bible Question: My Women's Study Leader uses 'revelation' quite often stating we get revelation from God: what is the difference in revelation, illumination and inspiration? I feel funny inside hearing revelation used when I always heard this was God to the Prophets and Apostles. Does He not illuminate our minds to understand the Word or am I being overly cautious? |
Bible Answer: The difficulty you are going to run into is that people are going to consistently use these words to say different things. What is important is getting straight the ideas they represent. There is one thing in which God makes "new revelation." This is ofcourse often called revelation or with regards to the writers of scripture this was often called inspiration. On the other hand there is the process where God opens our heart to actually understand what has already been revealed in his word. This is often called illumination. However, what you need to understand is that people don't always use the same words for the same things. Some people refer to this process where God helps us understand existing revelation as revelation itself. Ultimately you have to try to understand what a particular person is saying by it. The sad fact is that two people can say the same thing and mean totally different things by it. Keep the concepts straight in your head, and then try to understand how a given person or source is using these words. |
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