That information is in the same book. It is not new, it is different.
Again,
1. There are revelations given at one time that are repeated verbatim at a later point.
2. There are revelations given at one time that are either given in more detail or in less detail at a later point.
3. There are teachings given at one point and the same teaching given at a later point in completely new language.
4. There are teachings given that are not simply versions of teachings given at an earlier point, they do not contradict earlier teachings but are completely new teachings.
Every single one of those is an example of progressive revelation. Frankly what your arguing against isn't progressive revelation. What your talking about is post biblical revelation. If progressive revelation had never occurred the bible would not even exist.
Give you best 3 examples.
It would take months or even years to determine what the best examples are, so I will just supply good examples.
1. The concept of the law in the OT was completely replaced by the concept of grace in the NT concerning salvation. Sin could not be forgive in the OT, sin's dept was simply pushed forward a year at a time by the animal sacrifices in the OT. However when Christ appeared the sin debt could be completely eradicated from a believers legal record.
2. Or take the concept of the temple's veil. In the OT all humans were separated from God by sin, however when Christ died the veil was torn in half to symbolize that for the first time since Adam fell we could be directly united with God.
3. Or take the prophecy made to Israel that when the diaspora ended that God would for the first time in human history God would plant Israel back in the land he originally gave them but after this particular event that God would never again allow anyone to drive the Hebrews out of it.
However this is not really necessary. Everything in the bible is progressive revelation. God chose a specific time (no matter when that was) to reveal things for the first time. Everything God did after the initial creation was a unique events that occurred at a unique time in man's history.
But if you want more anyway:
Psalm 78:1-4, "Listen, O my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4
We will not conceal them from their children, But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done."
- Matthew 13:17, "For truly I say to you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it."
- Matthew 13:35, "so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world."
- John 5:39, "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me."
- Romans 16:25-26, "Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, 26 but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith."
- 1 Corinthians 2:7-8, "but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory; 8 the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."
- Hebrews 1:1-2, "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, 2 in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world."
- 1 Peter 1:10-12, "As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry, 11 seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look."
What is progressive revelation and is it scriptural? | CARM Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry
Man is basically the same today as he was in Genesis. That is what Jesus said---they were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage.
I have never said any different. In fact I said that both God and man's essential natures have always been the same. What I actually said was that mankind's general knowledge base has increased on an unimaginable scale. It is simple logic to conclude that God could and should have been able to communicate and expect different things from Moses and Billy Graham. It is speculated that mankind has learned far more in the last 100 years than we have in the rest of human history combined. Any God worthy of the title would be aware of that and accommodate it.
I will wait for your examples.
See the above but that is just the tip of the ice burg.
The truth the Holy Spirit is going to guide us into is the truths we find in Scripture. That there progressive revelation is an LDS doctrine.
The Holy Spirit did both. He supplied the scriptures and he reveals things to individual Christians that are not in the Bible. In fact Jesus said that until he was taken bodily into heaven after he was resurrected that Holy Spirit would not come. This issue gets a little complicated but he did state what I claimed here.
And no it did not originate with LDS doctrine.
What Is Progressive Revelation?
The entire bible is progressive revelation.
