When the revelation was given to Moses at Mount Sinai, he headed the elders of Israel who accompanied Moses on the way to the summit.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

President of the Church Harold B. Lee taught " The only one authorized to bring forth any new doctrine is the President of the Church, who, when he does, will declare it as revelation from God, and it will be so accepted by the Council of the Twelve and sustained by the body of the Church.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

Conservative Jews who reject the concept of verbal revelation believe that God revealed his will to Moses and other prophets in a non-verbal form — that is, God's revelation did not include the particular words of the divine texts.

Jesus acts as the organ or instrument of God, the creator of life, the principle of every revelation of God, who in his absoluteness and transcendence is enthroned above and isolated from all the world.

The prophets were the people who received divine revelation.

He wrote that while walking to Vincennes ( about three miles from Paris ), he had a revelation that the arts and sciences were responsible for the moral degeneration of mankind, who were basically good by nature.

Owing to this intimate connection with the ibn Tibbons, Anatoli was introduced to the philosophy of Maimonides, the study of which was such a great revelation to him that he, in later days, referred to it as the beginning of his intelligent and true comprehension of the Scriptures, while he frequently alluded to Ibn Tibbon as one of the two masters who had instructed and inspired him.

81. 4 " Moreover also among us a man named John, one of the apostles of Christ, prophesied in a revelation made to him that those who have believed on our Christ will spend a thousand years in Jerusalem ; and that hereafter the general and, in short, the eternal resurrection and judgment of all will likewise take place ").

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

In addition, Mormons believe that Smith and his legitimate successors are modern prophets, seers, and revelators who receive revelation from God to guide His Church.

The Latter Day Saint concept of revelation includes the belief that revelation from God is available to all those who earnestly seek it with the intent of doing good.

This view was challenged by the " rationalist " Mutazilite philosophers, who held a more Hellenic view, reason above revelation, and as such are known to modern scholars as the first speculative theologians of Islam ; they were supported by a secular aristocracy who sought freedom of action independent of the Caliphate.

The term prophet is applied to those who receive public or private revelation.

The Bahá ' í Faith refers to what are commonly called prophets as " Manifestations of God " who are directly linked with the concept of Progressive revelation.

In this case, the revelation is that the titular character's memories are false and he is not who he thinks he is.

Shemot ( Exodus ) begins the story of God's revelation to his people Israel through Moses, who leads them out of Egypt ( Exodus 1 – 18 ) to Mount Sinai.

The papacy in the Papal States occupied a middle ground between theocracy and ecclesiocracy, since the pope did not claim he is a prophet who receives revelation from God, but merely the ( in rare cases infallible ) interpreter of already-received revelation.

These two " Official Declarations " are not revelations, but they serve as the formal announcements that a revelation was received.

It was superseded by section 132 of the modern LDS edition, which contains a revelation received by Joseph Smith on eternal marriage and teaches the doctrine of plural marriage.

But after they had left the house of the prophet, fully determined to sacrifice their lives to God, Ezekiel received this revelation: " Thou dost believe indeed that I will abandon them.

The Arab tribes, of the time, may have begun to exalt Muhammad above Jonah because of the recent revelation Muhammad received, which recounted the story of Jonah's fleeing from his mission.

According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

Jabal al-Nour is where Muhammad is believed to have received the first revelation of God in Islam | God through the Archangel Gabriel.

The Qur ' an narrates that Noah received a revelation to build an Ark, after his people refused to believe in his message and hear the warning.

In France, Michel Potay says he received a revelation, called The Revelation of Arès, dictated by Jesus in 1974, then by God in 1977.

For instance, both Lehi and Nephi received their callings by revelation and visions from the Lord.

Sister Antónia d ' Astónaco, a Carmelite nun from Portugal, received a private revelation from Michael ( archangel ) | St. Michael the Archangel.

According to Latter Day Saints, in 1832, Joseph Smith, Jr. received a revelation to restore the practice of temple worship, in a " house of the Lord ".

Robertson supposedly received this revelation from God during an annual personal prayer retreat in January.

At the age of 30, Zoroaster received a revelation.

Alma received a revelation that " whosoever will not repent of his sins the same shall not be numbered among my people " ( Mosiah 26: 32 ).

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple episodes of backsliding by the very people who first received God's revelation ; to the Protestant mind, this shows that teaching the Gospel is a straight and narrow path, one that requires that natural religion be held in check and that God's grace, holiness, and otherness be rigorously proclaimed.

A Marian apparition, if deemed genuine by Church authority, is treated as private revelation that may emphasize some facet of the received public revelation for a specific purpose, but it can never add anything new to the deposit of faith.

According to him, he received a divine revelation through the reading and study of Christian bible and allegedly received healing from Jesus Christ.

" Apologists also note that, although the revelation permitting polygamy was not published until 1852, it was actually received by Joseph Smith sometime in the 1830s.

The public revelation was received with surprise and consternation by many, and was also dealt with in a rebuttal volume of biography by Mary Lutyens ( Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals ).

During this time, he received the 1886 Revelation, which restated the permanence of the commandment to practice plural marriage ; the validity of this revelation is rejected by the LDS Church but it is used by Mormon fundamentalists to justify the continued practice of polygamy.

As the person awaiting the divine revelation, he is also specially fitted to announce it to others, after having received it in the form of the Commandments ( ib.

He shows that a belief in the teachings of revelation does not exclude an independent search for knowledge, but that speculation on religious subjects rather endeavors to prove the truth of the teachings received from the Prophets and to refute attacks upon revealed doctrine, which must be raised by philosophic investigation to the plane of actual knowledge.