Public Revelation ended

[edwinG]

The Catholic Church teaches ( I suppose this to be correct) that public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.
What does this mean?
Christ be with you
walk in love
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[JimG]

It means there is no more public revelation. All that Jesus intended to convey to they Apostles had been conveyed. That truth is preserved in the Apostolic Tradition and in Scripture.

While God may choose since that time to reveal some things to individuals privately, (private revelation) those things are not a part of public revelation, nor are they binding on believers.

 

[Emmaus]

edwinG:

The Catholic Church teaches ( I suppose this to be correct) that public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.
What does this mean?
Christ be with you
walk in love
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From The Catechism

"There will be no further Revelation

66 "The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ."28 Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.

67 Throughout the ages, there have been so-called “private” revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.

Christian faith cannot accept “revelations” that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such “revelations”.

scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s1c2a1.htm#III

 

[Catholic2003]

Here is how Vatican II explained it:

4. Then, after speaking in many and varied ways through the prophets, “now at last in these days God has spoken to us in His Son” (Heb. 1:1-2). For He sent His Son, the eternal Word, who enlightens all men, so that He might dwell among men and tell them of the innermost being of God (see John 1:1-18). Jesus Christ, therefore, the Word made flesh, was sent as “a man to men.” He “speaks the words of God” (John 3;34), and completes the work of salvation which His Father gave Him to do (see John 5:36; Divine Revelation 17:4). To see Jesus is to see His Father (John 14:9). For this reason Jesus perfected revelation by fulfilling it through his whole work of making Himself present and manifesting Himself: through His words and deeds, His signs and wonders, but especially through His death and glorious resurrection from the dead and final sending of the Spirit of truth. Moreover He confirmed with divine testimony what revelation proclaimed, that God is with us to free us from the darkness of sin and death, and to raise us up to life eternal.

The Christian dispensation, therefore, as the new and definitive covenant, will never pass away and we now await no further new public revelation before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ (see 1 Tim. 6:14 and Tit. 2:13).

 

[Todd_Easton]

edwinG:

The Catholic Church teaches ( I suppose this to be correct) that public revelation ended with the death of the last apostle.
What does this mean?

The faith was delivered once for all to the Apostles:
In John 14:25-26, Jesus said to the Apostles, “These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he** will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you**.”

In John 16:12-13, Jesus said to the Apostles, “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he** will guide you into all the truth**; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”

In Jude 1:3, it says, “Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”
Anything contrary to the original teachings (traditions), which were received from the Apostles either by word of mouth or by letter, is to be avoided like the plaque.
In 1 Cor 11:2, St. Paul said, “I commend you because you … maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you.”

In 2 Thes 2:15, St. Paul said, “So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.”

In Gal 1:6-9, Paul says, “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel–not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.”