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To Know Divine Revelation, We Must Understand How Faith and Reason Work

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To fully understand and get to know Divine Revelation, how “God reveals himself and his plan of salvation for mankind in history through words and deeds, which began in creation, culminated in Jesus Christ and ended with the death of the last Apostle John” , humans need to understand how faith and reason work. Through history faith and reason have been presented to humanity in different ways; sometimes as two separate branches, which are independent and do not interact at all, and sometimes both complementing one another. Faith and Reason work together so that God’s plan of salvation reaches humanity and saves us from original sin, by knowing this mankind is able to know the truth about the world and about themselves.
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But there is another order of knowledge, which man cannot possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of Divine Revelation” .
In order to truly understand Divine Revelation one must know what is faith. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church faith is, “both a gift of God and a human act by which the believer gives personal adherence to God who invites his response, and freely assents to the whole truth that God has revealed.” Faith is a “super natural virtue,” something given to humanity by God as a gift, which enables mankind to believe in all He has revealed, God’s plan of salvation and His divinity. Even though it is a gift from God, not every human accepts it. In order to accept it, humans need to believe in God without seeing Him; this is difficult for many people because they say there is no scientific proof that all that God has revealed is true, but science “can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God.” Dionysius said, “faith is the solid foundation for the believer, establishing him in the truth and showing forth the truth in him.” St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest theologian in history, uses Dionysius definition in his Summa Theologiae to prove how faith is important for everyone to get to know truth, the correspondence from mind to reality.
The Catholic Church has faced many obstacles through history,

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