Conversion & Calling, Student Workbook, SW01

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b. Conscience

c. Moral and spiritual qualities

B. God also reveals himself through special revelation. By special revelation we mean God’s revealing of himself to particular persons at very specific times and places for his own purposes.

1. God reveals himself in special revelation through historical events.

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a. The lives of the patriarchs

b. The Exodus event

c. The building of the Temple

2. God reveals himself in special revelation through divine speech.

a. “The Word of the Lord,” whether given audibly, in dreams, or in vision

b. This mode perfected in the “propositional” Word, the Holy Scriptures

3. God reveals himself in special revelation through the incarnation of the Word in the person and work of Jesus Christ.