Information vs. Revelation — What's the Difference?

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of "What an entity is" and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.

In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.

Knowledge or facts learned, especially about a certain subject or event.

The act of revealing or disclosing.

The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge

Something revealed, especially a dramatic disclosure of something not previously known or realized.

(Computers) Processed, stored, or transmitted data.

A sudden insight or idea

A numerical measure of the uncertainty of an experimental outcome.

(Theology) A manifestation of divine will or truth.

(Law) A formal accusation of a crime made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment in instances in which the offense, if a federal crime, is not a felony or in which the offense, if a state crime, is allowed prosecution in that manner rather than by indictment.

Revelation See Table at Bible.

That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".

The act of revealing or disclosing.

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

Something that is revealed.

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

Something dramatically disclosed.

A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

(theology) A manifestation of divine truth.

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

Something that turns out to be a great success.

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

That which is revealed.

[…] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

The act of revealing divine truth.

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation or The Revelation of Saint John.

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

The speech act of making something evident

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

An enlightening or astonishing disclosure

As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

Communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

The last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the apostle

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

A message received and understood

A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

Formal accusation of a crime