Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers
of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.
Not exact matches
Phil Libin, the chief executive
of Evernote, a start - up in Mountain View, Calif., was kind enough
to give me a tour
of his privately held company's financials
to reveal the
mystery.
God has not
revealed all
mysteries of the past, but He gave us minds and reason
to discover it.
It is acquiescence
to the impenetrable
mystery of God, an acquiescence
to whatever
of God the death
of Jesus on the cross is meant
to reveal.
I do believe what Jesus taught and claimed and He does still leave some things a
mystery for us even though He has
revealed much
of Himself
to us.
Yet how important is it
to explain the
mystery of God
revealed to us in three distinct ways?
Although this
mystery of God
revealed in three ways is the core belief
of Christianity, many struggle
to explain it.
Though we human beings must use concepts
to grasp the content
of our faith, in the end God does not
reveal a series
of ideas: He
reveals the «
mystery»
of Himself in the person
of Christ, who is «the fullness
of all revelation».
If your forerunner the camel is outside
of paradise, it is obvious that she has dried up from hunger and thirst, or that others have the benefit
of her milk — and so your prophet is boasting idly
of having conversed with God, because God did not
reveal to him the
mystery of the camel.
The
mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully
revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads
to the possibility
of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments
of the spirit.
Even the
mysteries of faith are
mysteries not because they are believed with no reason whatsoever, but rather because we depend on God
to reveal the evidence
of these
mysteries to us.
Paul's parenthesis has so far explained why he is a prisoner, what the plan
of the
mystery revealed to him was, and how he individually was called by God
to preach
to the world about this
mystery, Jews and Gentiles.
Jeremy thanks for your comments alot
of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me
to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants
to reveal mysterys if we are open
to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word
of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on
to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way
to deal with that problem is
to give it away and be a follower
of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has
to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not
to submit
to God thats universal everyone
of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some
of them that was
revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some
of you are getting fidgetty.
These verses are the continuation
of Paul's Parenthesis about the
mystery revealed to him in Christ.
Paul, the prisoner
of Jesus Christ, was
revealed the plan
of the
mystery and as a result he preached about this
mystery to all.
The
mystery of God is
revealed in the ongoing events
of life, and any people who would know, serve or worship this God must be willing
to plunge into life.
To be initiated into a
mystery conjures up, not the learning
of a creed or the systematizing
of a doctrine, but the
revealing of an experience.
For without the feeling
of excitement which belonging
to a community
of shared hope provides, it may be difficult for us
to be grasped deeply by the reality
of the
mystery revealed in Jesus.
Every catechist can be helped
to transmit the reality
of our tri-personal God
of self - giving Love as a
mystery revealed,
to be proclaimed and embraced.
He who
reveals to us the
mystery of God's Sovereign Decrees, manifests at the same time the tenderest interest in the souls
of individuals.»
This accounts for Jacob's destiny as much as for the
mystery of the act in which God
reveals his name
to Moses — YHWH: the one who is (Ex.
I claim that the communion
revealed in the fellowship
of the disciples with Jesus is what has the power
to do this and not the
mystery of being.
Nor does
mystery refer
to the inner trinitarian life
of God apart from the creation, apart from what has been
revealed in the economy
of salvation.
«Suddenly,» she writes, «I felt a misty consciousness as
of something forgotten — a thrill
of returning thought, and somehow the
mystery of language was
revealed to me.
«Only in the
mystery of the incarnate Word does the
mystery of man take on light... Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation
of the
mystery of the Father and His love, fully
reveals man
to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear.»
«Since it has been entrusted
to the Church
to reveal the
mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal
of man, she opens up
to man at the same time the meaning
of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole
of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole
of nature created by God for man's use» (41).
He sends us his
mystery, himself, not anything else as partial answers; he sends himself
to us as love and thus answers the question which we ourselves are, and thus
reveals himself as «Person», disposing
of himself in full knowledge.
Then He brought forth His plan out
of the darkness
of mystery and
revealed it
to all the world: Jesus Christ, the Word
of God in person, God's revelation
of the meaning
of universal history so that we need no longer walk in darkness but in the light.
But that
mystery is the essence
of faith and the answers (I believe) will eventually be
revealed to us through love
of each other and
of the being that deliberately created us all.
We should honor great men, saintly men are noble examples for us, but no great or saintly man can
reveal God's
mystery to us and bind us with God; no man can take away our guilt and make us certain
of the completion
of life in eternal life.
But it is possible that such questions occur
to us at all only because we are already somehow situated beyond the merely problematic and because, in the core
of our being, we are already abiding within a wider field
of self -
revealing mystery.
Still in his book on the Trinity (1986), Boff holds that the Church is, in reference
to Lumen Gentium 1.48 where it is considered as «sign and instrument»
of salvation,
revealing (sign) and realizing (instrument)
of the «
mystery of the love
of God towards Man», the «historical sacrament»
of the Trinity, it later loses this prominent place in Boff's writings.
«24 His own positive view
of globalization reads thus: «The Trinity, as
mystery of communion
of the three Divine Persons, has always given herself
to creation as well as
to the life
of every single human being, and has
revealed herself — under the forms
of sociability, mutual openness, love and self - giving, but also accusation and protest against the lack
of such values —
to the communities
of humanity.
For it is especially through these that the
mystery of the world is
revealed to faith.
God is veiled from the ungodly, but
to those
of humble and contrite hearts He is near and
to them He
reveals the
mysteries of His Word by His Spirit, who is the Spirit
of Truth, whom the god-less world does not know, nor can it ever know.
All
of this lies underneath the Hebrew attitude toward the name
of God, the God who was
mystery, the God who was ultimate, the God who was depth beyond penetration, height beyond perception, the God who was finally unknowable except that he chose
to reveal as much
of himself as his people could perceive.
When the
mystery of the kingdom is
revealed, it does not cease
to be a
mystery.
Others have argued for a «pluralist» approach, suggesting that no religion can claim a preferential position, but that the Divine
Mystery, who is
revealed in each religious tradition, is never fully apprehended and that each faith tradition witnesses
to aspects
of the divine glory.
According
to the Scriptures, it isn't ours
to penetrate into the darkness
of the shadows
of the
mystery of evil or anything else God on high has chosen not
to reveal to us.
[21] We come
to see that at the heart
of the sacramentality
of the word
of God is the
mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality
of the
revealed mystery is offered
to us in the «flesh»
of the Son... The sacramental character
of revelation points in turn
to the history
of salvation,
to the way that the word
of God enters time and space, and speaks
to men and women, who are called
to accept his gift in faith.»
That's the gospel
of the GRACE
of God, the «
mystery» he
revealed exclusively
to Paul.
He was working out the logical entailments
of revelation, looking for the intra-coherence
of Christian «
mysteries» (
revealed doctrines), and uniting the best insights from all the Church Fathers, medieval schoolmen, and later commentators,
to bear witness
to the Triune God.
I learnt that for 4000 years a
mystery had been kept secret & that that
mystery was
revealed to the Apostle Paul & not
to any one
of the Old Testament and not
to the disciples.
And he knew that being's
mystery, while it is the source
of our humanity, never shows itself
to us with the undeniable clarity
of a distinct thing among other things, but
reveals itself only as a kind
of intangible shadow at the edges
of the things that are.
That truth, as the Fathers
of Vatican II taught in Gaudium et Spes, is
revealed in «Christ the Lord... Christ the new Adam, [who] in the very revelation
of the
mystery of the Father and
of his love,
reveals man
to himself and brings light
to his most high calling.»
The
mystery which was
revealed to Paul was that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs,
of the same body, and partakers
of His promise!
One might think so; but it is here that something
of the
mystery of God's graciousness and freedom is
revealed, and, as with the cross, we discover a truth which is a source
of incomprehension (perhaps even scandal)
to many.
The reason, as we will soon see, is because
of the
mystery that was
revealed to him.
But none
of these are the
mystery that was
revealed to Paul.
(Col 1:16) This active presence
of the Son in the creative work
of God is
revealed fully in the Paschal
Mystery, in which Christ, rising as «the first fruits
of those who had fallen asleep» (I Cor 15:20), established the new creation and began the process which he himself will bring
to completion when he returns in glory
to «deliver the kingdomto God the Father..., so that God may be everything
to everyone» (I Cor 15: 24,28).