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There is a need for tradition to have revelation because without the tradition that religions have of teaching people revelations, no one would ever know if they were having a one. This is why it is important to have a tradition that carries on the stories about revelation because people recognizing a revelation and hearing stories about them facilitates people having more faith in God. Some stories that have scenes of revelation in them are Portier's story on "Super Thrift," Malcolm X's chapter on going to the hajj, and Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation". I used these stories because these stories are stories that encourage people to have faith in a God because of the revelations shown.
Revelation is simply God's self-communication with an individual or a whole community. Part of many religions deal with the stories of revelations such as Moses and Arjuna. As stated in Portier's book, "Many religions, especially the scriptured ones, do have some operative and significant notion of......

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