““But in the biblical understanding revelation is a historical event: it is the word of God coming to the moment of human existence, “which makes the truth of the moment visible and, thereby, makes God visible.”452 Revelation takes place more specifically as God’s address, which as the word of forgiveness interrupts the history of the human being that is determined by sin. The word of the forgiving love of God specifically calls the individual out of the past determined by his own doing, and into decision by enabling him to grasp the “now” of his existence—the new possibility of authentic existence now coming towards him from the future of God.””
