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 "question": "What is revelation, and how does God reveal Himself to man?",
 "answer": "Revelation is the first of five works of the Holy Spirit regarding the Word of God: it is the means by which the Holy Spirit revealed His message to prophets and apostles (2 Tim. 3:16). Revelation is how God communicated to man what could otherwise never be known. The natural world by itself discloses that a Creator exists, but it cannot reveal such things as the Creator’s righteousness, love, and grace, or the salvation He holds out to man—for that, God Himself spoke to men (1 Pet. 1:20–21). This revelation is also progressive: Scripture is a book of progressive revelation, its message more fully and clearly developed toward the end than at the beginning—more about Jesus Christ and salvation is revealed in the New Testament than the Old, and more about the function of the Church is revealed in the epistles than in the Gospels.",
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  "How does God make known things that humans could not figure out on their own?",
  "What is the difference between the natural world telling us about a Creator and God speaking directly to people?"
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