"God who creates and conserves all things by his Word, offers to men a constant evidence of himself in created things".72DV 3. Man, who by his nature and his vocation is capable of knowing God, when he listens to this message of creation is able to arrive at the certainty of the existence of God, as the cause and end of all things and as the one who is able to reveal himself to man. The Constitution Dei Verbum of the Second Vatican Council describes Revelation as that act by which God manifests himself personally to man. God truly reveals himself as one who desires to communicate himself, making the human person a participant in his divine nature.73Cf. 2 Pet 1:4; CCC 51-52. In this way God accomplishes his plan of love. "It pleased God, in his goodness and wisdom, to reveal himself and to make known the mystery of his will [to men]...in order to invite and receive them into communion with himself".742 DV 2.
The "providential plan" 752 Eph 1:9. of the Father, fully revealed in Jesus Christ, is realized by the power of the Holy Spirit. This implies: – the Revelation of God, of his "innermost truth",762 DV 2. of his "secret",772 EN 11. of the true vocation and dignity of the human person; 78Cf. GS 22a. – the offer of salvation to all men, as a gift of God's grace and mercy,79Cf. Eph 2:8; EN 27. which implies freedom from evil, sin and death; 80Cf. EN 9. – the definitive call to gather into the family of God all of his scattered children, thus realizing a fraternal union amongst men.81Cf. Gen 11:52; AG 2b and 3a.