{"id":3256,"date":"2021-04-05T23:08:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2021-04-05T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:08:46","slug":"god-as-a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"GOD AS A SECRET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unknown, yet well known.<br \/>2 Corinthians 6,9 God cannot be understood by reason. If he could be<br \/>understood, he would not be God. Evagrios of Pontus.<br \/>One day some brothers came to see Antonio&#8217;s father, and Father Josef was among them. The older man, who wanted to try them, was reminded of a certain text from Scripture, and he asked the youngest what he thought of him. He explained how best he could, but he told everyone: &#8220;You haven&#8217;t found the answer yet,&#8221; he asked his father, Joseph. He replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; said Father Antonio: &#8220;Indeed, Father Joseph is the well away because he said I don&#8217;t know. &#8221; From Tales of the Desert Fathers As a friend talks to a friend, so does a man<br \/>with God and firmly attracted, confidently, facing the face of the One who abides in inaccessible light. St. Simeon New Theologian Distant, yet close to infinity<br \/><strong>What or who is God?<\/strong><br \/>He who embarks on a spiritual journey is still evolving, and Over time, he becomes aware of two contrasting facts: no, finally, it is distant and yet close. First, he experiences more and more that God is a mystery. Yippee completely different, holy, invisible, incomprehensible, completely about transcendent, of and in all words, mime of the possibility of understanding. &#8220;Just born a child,&#8221; writes the Roman Catholic writer l George Tyrrel, &#8220;knows as much about the world and his travels as he does about it &#8211; the wisest of us can know about the ways of God and about do rulers over heaven and earth, time and eternity. &#8221; A Christian living in the Orthodox tradition will be completely concerned to agree. As the Greek fathers emphasized: &#8220;God, who can understand, he is not God. &#8220;For God, whom we would dare to understand to use through our mind comprehensively, there will be nothing more than an idol, a matter of our imagination. Such is God completely unlike the true and living God in the Bible and the Church. Man is created according to God about the image, no vice versa.<br \/>And then it is also important that this God is a mystery we are still uniquely open, fulfilling all thinking and always present in us, surrounding us with us and with us. It&#8217;s not present only in the atmosphere or about his strength, but personally. God, who is infinitely beyond our understanding, is with us reveals itself as a person. He calls each of us in the name of us we answer him. Between the transcendent God and us is the relationship of love, similar to each of us&#8217;s relationship to those I am the most expensive. I only know other people through our love for them and their love for us. That&#8217;s how it is with God. According to Nikolas from\u00a0 Kabasily: God, our King, is more loving than any of our friends, more righteous than any ruler, more loving than father, more part of ourselves than our own limbs, and more indispensable to us than our own heart. So these are the two and a half of the human experience of the divine.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">God is more distant and closer to us than anything another. And we paradoxically discover that these two poles do not exclude. On the contrary, the more we are attracted to one, the more clearly I realize the other at that moment. As we follow this path, we discover that God is always becoming more intimate and more distant, well-known, and still unknown &#8211; well known to a small child, incomprehensible to the most brilliant theologians. God dwells in inaccessible light, and the man stands in his presence with loving confidence and addresses him as a friend. God is both &#8211; the end of things and their beginning. He is open to our arms, who welcomes us at the end of the pilgrimage, and at the same time, a companion who walks led us at every step. As described\u00a0by St. Nicholas Kabasila: &#8220;God is a shelter in which we rest at night, even the ultimate goal of our journey. &#8221; God is a mystery, and yet a person: let&#8217;s look at these about\u00a0the fact.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown, yet well known.2 Corinthians 6,9 God cannot be understood by reason. If he could beunderstood, he would not be God. Evagrios of Pontus.One day some brothers came to see Antonio&#8217;s father, and Father Josef was among them. 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