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How do we distinguish “divine revelation” and “human wisdom”?

It looks like Christianity is divided because, instead of divine revelation from the word of God, it is human wisdom that made people believe differently about the word of God.

What do you think?

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DIVINE REVELATION BY “DEMONSTRATION”

A choice between "divine revelations" vs. "human wisdom"

Our Lord speaks the “language of man.” Hebrew to the Jews in the following. He told His listeners:

• “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

It is clear the people listening to Him were divided into two groups:

A. The JEWS who tried to understand what they heard in their Hebrew language.

B. The APOSTLES/DISCIPLES, although speaking the same language, preferred to wait for our Lord’s revelation of what He intended to mean.

Let us listen to the JEWS:

• Joh 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

• Mat 27:40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Let us observe the APOSTLES/DISCIPLES

• Joh 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

• Joh 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

It is obvious and everybody now knows that the Apostles/Disciples got the right message when they “waited” for our Lord reveal His words by “demonstration.”

The Jews, on the other hand, used their human competence with the use of the “intellect, senses, and feeling” trying to understand the word of our Lord.

Can we not now apply the lesson to other words of our Lord?

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In search of divine revelation, how does God reveal Himself in the following?

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

Logic or common sense and the senses dictate that our Lord Jesus as Son of God can never be the Father.

One thing I observed Simon Peter in recognizing Jesus required the “revelation of the Father” in the following:

• Mat 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
• Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the CHRIST, the SON of the living God.
• Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, BUT MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.

Have we noticed all Bible believers declare, “Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God,” and yet they cannot agree on His identity?

- Some say, “Jesus is only a man and not God”

- Others say, a derivative, “Jesus is only a mighty God for there is a Supreme or Almighty God”

- Still others say, “Jesus Christ is the name of the Father and the Holy Spirit”

- Many say, “Jesus is both God and man, and is the second person of the Trinity”

Perhaps we may ask the question, “Why does it need divine revelation for simply declaring Jesus is the CHRIST, the SON of God.”?