INT REL 101: Revelation of God in the Old Testaments - His intelligence

Instructor: Mr. Dave Maliwat - His beauty

The creation of man:
• Man is God’s image and likeness.
God as Creator • Ontologically linked to God. Man is essentially
a religious being.“
Genesis 1:1-31
• Male and female He created them.”
1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.  • Equality and sexual complementarity.
2. The earth was without form and void, and darkness  What it means to be a human person: -the
was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was human person is a mystery.-in what way the
moving over the face of the waters. human person images God.
 in what way the human person is like God.
3. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was
light.   The theology of the body.
 in what way Jesus Christ, as fullness of
4. And God saw that the light was good; and God Revelation, revealed God and man to man
separated the light from the darkness. himself
5. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Who is God? The Trinity
Night. And there was evening and there was morning,
one day. The Trinity

The Bible’s account about Creation  One of the most important mysteries of our
Christian Faith is that God is one God and yet
 Creation is the first lesson God wanted to teach three Persons.
us in Holy Scripture. It is important.
 A mystery is something that is true that we can
 It is the FOUNDATION OF MORALITY. only know if God tells us about it.
 Creation tells us so much about God, ourselves  The mystery of God is that He is three Persons
and the world in which we live. in one God. The Father is God, the Son is God,
and the Holy Spirit is God.
The Bible’s account about Creation
 They are not three separate gods, but one God.
• The Bible’s account about Creation.
We believe in one God, who is three Persons.
• a religious truth in simple language.
 We call this mystery the Holy Trinity. Trinity is
• the meaning of “to create.” a word that means “three in one.”

• creation is structured, orderly and harmonious. The Sign of the Cross

• there is unity and diversity in creation. - As Catholics, when we pray, we begin by

blessing ourselves with the Sign of the Cross.
• the goodness of creation. - This is a short prayer that asks for the blessing
explanation of some words: of the Holy Trinity.
- We make a Sign of the Cross over our bodies
- days of creation while we say “In the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
- heavens and earth
The Mystery of the Trinity
- empirical science and religion the big bang theory
• The mystery of the Trinity is that God is three
- What Creation tells us about God:
Persons in one God. A person is a unique
- His power individual.
- His goodness • Each of us are persons. We are unique
individuals. I am not you and you are not me.
- His love
 You are you and no one else ever can be or will  The attribute that most prominently stood out in
be you. the glimpses of God that He gave to men in the
Scriptures was his holiness.
• God as Trinity is three Persons: Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. Each are unique individuals.  The holiness of God is the message of the entire
Old Testament.
• The Father is not the Son, the Son is not the
Father, nor are they the Holy Spirit. Each is a  To prophets God was the absolutely Holy One;
unique Person. the One with eyes too pure to behold evil; the
One swift to punish iniquity.
 He wants us to see His face, not His hand or
finger, which signify His strength and skill, nor
even His throne, which represents His majesty.
 It is His holiness which He desires to be
remembered as that is the attribute which most
glorifies Him.
The love of God
• There are different kinds of love. We love our
parents, our siblings, and other family members.
• We love our friends. We love our pets. We also
love our toys and our things, our favorite movies
• Each Person of the Trinity is 100 percent fully
and TV shows.
God.
• We even say we love pizza! But the kind of love
• God is not three gods, nor is each person only
we have for our parents, for example, is
partly God. The Father is fully God, the Son is
different than the kind of love we have for
fully God, and the Holy Spirit is fully God.
pizza.
• This mystery is difficult to fully understand:
LIVING IN THE LOVE OF GOD
how something can be both three and one at the
same time. But we know that with God, God’s love is bigger, deeper, and greater than any other
anything is possible. kind of love. God’s love is perfect love! It will not fail
or go away.
• He has divinely revealed to us that He is Trinity,
so therefore, it is true. God’s love is so great and perfect that the Bible tells us
that God IS love!
God Is a Trinity
God Is Love
• There is a common Catholic prayer called the
“Glory Be” that gives praise and glory to the • “Whoever is without love does not know God,
Trinity. It is very similar to the Sign of the for God is love (1 John 4:8).”God is love.
Cross.
• God wants us to love one another. When we
• When we give glory to God, it means that we love each other, we are really making God
tell Him how great He is just for being God, and known to others.
we show Him honor and worship Him. Like the Bible says, whoever is without love
does not know God.
• “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to
the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, Is • When we know love we know God, because
now, and will be forever. Amen.” God is love.
KNOWING GOD
Holiness of God
 the one quality that God wants His followers to
associate with Him above all others.
God Is Almighty Read Colossians 1:16.
 • The Bible tells us that God created everything  Holiness has to do more with the character of
that exists. And that He did so with only His God in itself, while in righteousness and justice
Word. He did not use anything that already that character is expressed in the dealings of
existed. God with men.
• Out of nothing, God created everything. This Consideration of the righteous and justice of God:
tells us that God is all powerful, or almighty.
1. Legislative holiness - Imposing of
• Because He is God, He has the power to do righteousness, laws and demands (righteousness
anything and to create anything. of God).
2. Judicial holiness – executing of the penalties
Mercy
attached to those laws,
• The kindness, goodness, and compassion of 3. Regarded as the actual carrying out of the holy
God, the love of God in its relation to both the nature of God in the government of the world.
obedient and the disobedient sons of men.  Righteousness has reference to the very nature
of God as He is in Himself– that attribute which
• Exercised in connection with guilt; leads Him to leads God always to do right.
seek the welfare, both temporal and spiritual, of  Justice is devoid of all passion or caprice;
sinners, even though at the cost of great sacrifice
on His part. Vindicative/vindicate – free from allegation or blame
(justification or defense for)
“But God, who is rich in mercy, and loves us so
much” - Eph. 2:4 Vindictive – having unreasoning desire for revenge
(personalized)
“But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
while we were yet a sinners, Christ died for us” - Creation Is Complete
Rom. 5:8
• Sunday is our day of rest. We call it the Lord’s
Loving-kindness Day or the Sabbath. God has told us to keep it
holy and to use it to rest from work. It is a
• Attribute of God which leads Him to bestow
special day for families — a day when we can
upon His obedient children His constant and
spend time doing things together.
choice blessing.
God is Our Father
Scriptural statement of facts
God our Father Loves Us Read Psalm 103:8-14.
• God is ready to accept the penitence of Israel,
even now, if only it be SINCERE. • God knows that as human beings we are weak
and sinful. Yet His love never fails. God’s love
• It is His mercy that forbids His permanently
for us is very similar to the love of a good
forsaking His people.
earthly father. In fact, we can learn a lot about
God’s love for us by thinking about how good
earthly fathers love their children. God our
Father loves us more than anything else.

I Am Loved
• Each of us was born into a family. Ideally, we
have parents, fathers and mothers, who care for
us and love us. They protect us just as the
emperor penguin fathers protect their eggs.
Unfortunately, we live in a world in which there
is sin. Sometimes our fathers and mothers and
Righteousness and Justice of God those who care for us let us down and don’t love
and protect us as they should. Some people
 Manifestation of God’s holiness. don’t know their fathers or mothers. This,
 however, does not change the fact that God, our Paulinian Spirituality Advocacy and Mission
Heavenly Father and Creator, loves us perfectly
and unconditionally. He cares for us and  Early Beginnings
protects us all throughout our lives even if  1907 – The birth of Paulinian Education with the
others let us down. He wants us to know Him opening of two classes for pre-schoolers and one
and to know His love for us. class for advanced pupils at the two-story
God Made Us to Be His Children Spanish Convento (Colegio de San Pablo)
adjoining the St. Peter Cathedral where the
• We are all created in the image and likeness of Parish Center stands today. A dormitory was set
God. This means God gave us minds to think up for girls studying at the school and who were
and to make choices. We have been given the known as “internas”.
freedom to choose between good and bad. When
we choose something other than what God
wants for us, we hurt our families, ourselves,
and God.God is a loving Father and wants us to
be happy. He knows that the only way we can
be can be is to choose what is good and to say
no to sin. The problem is that sometimes doing
the wrong thing looks good. Our mothers and
fathers love us and teach us the difference
between right and wrong, but sometimes we
choose not to obey.
The Prodigal Son Read Luke 15:11-24.
• Jesus taught by telling stories that helped people
understand more about God and His kingdom.
We call these stories parables. One of the most
well-known is the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
This parable teaches us that God will always
welcome us back with open arms when we turn
back to Him and ask for forgiveness. By telling
this parable, Jesus wanted to teach us about how
much God loves us, since the father in the story
is like God.
The Lost Sheep Read John 10:27-30.  1909 - The school’s name was changed to Colegio
• Sheep recognize the voice of their shepherd. del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus.
When a big flock of sheep is in the field and a  1925 – a first year high school was re-opened
shepherd calls to his sheep, only the sheep that which apparently did not proper and so, was given
belong to him will come. That’s because they up because there were not enough classrooms.
recognize his voice.Read Matthew 18:12-
14.Jesus said we are like the lost sheep. Even  1931 – the school’s name was changed to Sacred
though we may not be physically lost, we are Heart of Jesus Institution (SHOJI).
lost when we are separated from God through
 1934 – the SPC community moved to the old
sin.
Dominican Colegio de San Jacinto where SPUP
• But God loves us, protects us, and will always stands today.
search for us and bring us home, just like the
- The lot was acquired front the Dominican order.
shepherd.
The year also marked the opening of a high school
… department exclusively for girls, and a dormitory
exclusively for Shojians.
THE NATURE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
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 for the Paulinian, it means striving for what is excellent,
good, and perfect.

 SYMBOLS
 SWORD
- the sword of St. Paul is the gospel that cuts both
ways – conversion from the old life to
commitment to the values of Christ.
 1938 – the first batch of twenty-two high school
- It stands for fortitude and bravery to face life
students graduated.
challenges and to stand for one’s conviction.
 1939 – two normal courses were opened, one for
 BOOK
the formation of teachers in the elementary, another
for the teaching of home economics. - stands for knowledge and wisdom, for the skills,
values, attitudes, and competencies which the
 1941 – the school’s enrollment soared to 900
Paulinian seeks to acquire
students.
 LAMP
 December 8, world war II brought the Japanese
to Tuguegarao. The school was taken over by the - stand for light, witness, and service; for a life
occupational forces and the sisters evacuated to that benefits others.
Tuao where they organized classes and taught
catechism.  LAUREL LEAF

 1942 – in June, the sisters returned to Tuguegarao - signifies triumph. It is a reminder of the
and resume classes throughout the Japanese Christocentric Paschal Spirituality and challenges
occupation in make-shift bamboo and nipa every Paulinian has to accept – to endure the pains
classrooms. that is our share in the sufferings of Christ so we
could share in his victory.
 1948 - the school undertook the initiative of being
the first Teacher-Training Institution in Cagayan  WAVY LINES
Valley, as it assumed the name St. Paul College of - the waters of the sea that signifies readiness to go
Tuguegarao (SPCT). where the mission calls and tranquil daring to face
 1974 – the once traditional all-girl high school what difficult and unknown. It also stand for
department opened its doors to boys, making the Cagayan, the place where the University is located
entire school from kindergarten to graduate school and whose people the University is committed to
co-educational. serve.

 1978 – the first batch of high school boys  Red, White, and Blue
graduated. - colors of the Philippine flag, the country where
 2007 – SPUP celebrated its 100 years of existence the sisters of St. Paul of Chartres have been
in Cagayan Valley. transplanted; it stand for patriotism and love of
country by Paulinians.

Meaning of the University Seal and Motto

THE UNIVERSITY MOTTO:
 COLORS
CARITAS, VERITAS, SCIENTIA
 GREEN & GOLD
 Caritas – action born of faith and of a deep love of
- The official colors of SPUP and of all Paulinian God and neighbor. It is compassionate caring,
schools in the Philippines. warmth, hospitality, being “all to all” which marks
- Green = Life, Hope, and Youth; the Paulinian and witness of life’s impacts.

for the Paulinian, it means a joyful openness to life.  Veritas – an essence of morality, values and social
concern, the striving for truth and justice, peace and
- Gold = Purity, Integrity, and Glory in Christ victory;
unity, and the higher gifts of the spirit.
 Scientia – is authentic scholarship, systematic and
disciplined effort to teach and learn so that the gifts
or “charisms” of the Paulinian may be fully
developed to make him a competent servant leader
of the Church and country.
FIVE CORE VALUES OF PAULINIANS (5Cs)
 CHRIST CENTEREDNESS (Discipleship)
- Christ is the center of life of a disciple bring the
love of God to all. There is a total dedication while
following, imitating and putting on Christ.
 COMMISSION (Servant – Leadership)
- This is a witnessing Christ in service to the poor.
Paulinian is committed to a mission.
 COMMUNITY (Stewardship)
- This is value that animates life with each fellow
worker to lead them to Christ. There is unity,
partnership and cooperation.
 CHARISM (Excellence)
- Through the conscientious use of gifts, excellence
is raised to both material and spiritual levels. The
emphasis is given to the things that last, while
utmost effort is geared to integral formation of the
human resources of the institution.
 CHARITY (Compassionate Love)
- This love is all without distinction. It allows
everyone to be open to give and to receive the gifts
of their persons.