So God doesn’t tell people things anymore?
The last
public revelation was to the Apostles, when they died
public revelation died with them. This isn’t to say there hasn’t been
private revelation, which has been found to be supported by compelling evidence. So compelling, in fact, that Church teaching has come to embrase it completely. One example is St. Dominic’s
private revelation of Mary, giving him the Rosary to pray for the conversion of heritics. He did as instructed by the Holy mother, and then, after trying for years and being wholly rebutted, managed to convert the whole of Southern France from Heresy.
The most recent accepted private revelation was again, God sending the virgin Mary (remember what I explained before, Mary can’t do anything on her own, whatever she does she does because God allows and more over, commands it) to three childeren watching sheep in Fatima, Portugal. You can start learning about Fatima here
fatima.org/, associated with this aparition was the “micracle of the sun”. 70,000 people, after being told of the coming mirical came to see what would happen. Among these were a great many
Athiests (as Portugal, beleive it or not was becoming secularized) who were
hoping to be “dissapointed” by a non-miricle of the sun. All 70,000 walked away having been atounded by the sun becoming a “wheel of fire” in the sky, and “seeming to drop right out of the sky” among many other unusual occurances.
Of course there was the very famous private revelation of Our Lady of Guatalupe, who again appeared to covert a nation. In this case to convert the Myans who were practicing human sacrafice.
Not all apparitions have been Marian, there have been some of Christ. Christ for instance came to St. Francis on his cross, and gave him his wounds. Padres Pio, I beleive also received Christ’s wounds (this I know for a fact) after a private revelation from Christ. Among others. We do not call these people prophits, because Christ was the ultimate and last prophit. These people are Saints, blessed who brought messages, new revelation (again, private) to the world. Unlike Moses, and the other OT prophits they were not, in them selves, able to perform a miricle. The best they could do is report that one
would occur, when it would occur, and where it would occur as in the case of Fatima.
Only in the OT to foretell the coming of the Christ? So the Apostle John, as he wrote Revelation, just made it up?
No, though technically the name of the book is “Apocalypse”. Regardless, as I explain above there were no more public revelation since the death of the Apostles. No more
profits since Christ.
He decided that he wasn’t going to give any more humans the ability to know his Word concerning modern issues?
He did already, in the living teachings of the Catholic Church which Jesus established before his death. We already know his Word, we already know how it applys to our lives. All private revelation since the Apostles, has not been concerning
new teachings, or
new messages. It’s to remind us
of God’s (Jesus) teaching, to
call us back from sin. It a fallocy to believe that the full revelation of Gods word through Christ Jesus is insufficient to serve as a model for our daily lives, and is in any way incapable of instructing us on any modern moral issue. What is needed is
not new revelation, but to simply integrate God’s word into our lives.
He wouldn’t allow anyone to “know” his plans since he “inspired” all those folks 2000 years ago and that we should all just read up on what he said back then.
I’m really not sure what you mean here, God
told us his plan. He did so when he made the Word Flesh. The plan may be found in the teachings of the living church, part of which was written down into the cannoical sacrad scipture, or bible. Notice, I said
some, of it was written. The Bible isn’t the whole story, more over it
lacks a proper interpetive frame work in and of it’s self. St. Gerome said “Ignorance of Scripture, is Ignorance of Christ”. This is quite true in a very real sense, even though it’s only part of the story it’s certinaly it does contain a very important part. However today one could add, “Ignorance of
History, is ignorance of Scripture”. You need to know the proper historical context in order to understand the bible. With out this, the book becomes a nearly meaningless jumble of information from which you would have a very difficult time pulling out the true teachings. I think this is why Christ left a
living church, to teach the faith, rather than a dead book.
Got it. OK, well, there ya go. Anyone who displays the Stigmata or goes into a trance in the presence of the Mother, or has a vision of a disaster while praying is lying.
I think I covered this, thanks.
