divine revelations
God's unveiled truths
Divine revelations are truths believed to come directly from God or a supernatural source, disclosed to humans through prophets, visions, scripture, or mystical experience.
Major religions rest on such revelations: Moses receiving the Torah, Muhammad receiving the Quran, Joseph Smith receiving the Book of Mormon.
The phrase can also describe any insight felt to come from beyond ordinary understanding: It came to me like a divine revelation.
- visionsImagined or prophetic sights
- GodSupreme spiritual authority
- holy spiritSacred immaterial divine presence
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
- near death experienceSurviving a life-threatening crisis
theology · faith · angels · miracles · sacred texts · prophecy · end times · enlightenment · inner light · mystical experiences · speaking in tongues · road to Damascus · esotericism · exegesis · conversion · ancestors · hermeneutics · spirits
divine revelationsempirical observation
Facts gathered through senses
scientific discovery · worldly wisdom · folk wisdom · common sense · philosophical argument
divine revelationseducated guesses
Estimates grounded in knowledge
skeptical inquiry · agnosticism · working assumptions · doubt
divine revelationsfalse prophecy
Unfulfilled divine prediction
delusions · fabrications · superstitions · wishful thinking · self-deception
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