Sapientia per Scripturas
et Spiritum Sanctum {Wisdom through the Scriptures and
the Holy Spirit}
JHWH: "Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee!"
In this section you will
not find any lofty creeds such as the one by Athanasius. There is no creed
set up by any human that can fully represent or encompass the Word of
God. The Bible is like a sea in which an elephant can bathe and from
which a fly can drink. The New Testament mentions that even angels
desire to look into what God has had written down. Of course they
understand far more of the bible than we, but they also look far more
ahead and entertain angelic curiosity as to what all the implications are
for the future and for all eternity.
There is only one (triune)
God and Christ Jesus says: "I am the Way and I am the Truth and I am the Life, nobody
comes to the Father but through Me." But we christians have made such
a mess of what God has entrusted to us that we are the
laughing stock of mockers. Please, dear reader, have the wisdom to
distinguish between what we christians do and what Christ Jesus preached!
The Lord God wrote two
books, nature (creation) and the Holy Bible. He is writing, I dare say,
a third book: history! The first one is like a divine picture album and
the second one consists of the oracles of God. The third book is kind
of a collage of the films of lives great and small and we all are writers thereof!
The three great books
actually interact and the battles are fought out in our hearts. So does the bible say that the very earth moves
beneath us because of unrighteous people (cf. Prov. 30.21; Amos 8.8). [And you, my friend, presume
to blame God for natural disasters?! Be careful not to claim that God
cannot be a God of Love. Attempt to accept that His ways are infinitely higher
than ours. All I can say here is that He is neither some kind of Saint
Nick, nor some kind of bogeyman.]
Even though all future unto all eternity is
known to God Almighty, Who lives in eternity, as in a flash (even the smallest particles of
matter); not everything is fixed and predetermined. [So is it possible to die
'before your time'! {See Eccl. 7.17] This is a wonderful contradiction, a
paradox. And therefore Christians are not fatalists.
To understand life and to some
extent nature, takes an open ear and an open eye (spriritually, psychologically,
mentally and physically). The ear and eye of our heart can only be
enlightened through a careful and prayerful perusal of the bible under the continuous
guidance of the Holy Spirit. There is a mutually strengthening
relationship between theory and practice. The better we understand the
bible, the better we can live in accordance with God's will. And the
better we do that, the more we will learn to understand. The most
important matter in this regard is that we open up our hearts for the
workings of the Holy Spirit, so that He can shine into and clean up
the cobwebs that clog up the chambers of our hearts.
Life is like a jungle of emotions
and all sorts of vicissitudes. But true Love will find a way! Eventually, if
we persevere, the King of the universe will reward us for not giving up. A believer,
the bible says, must believe that God exists and that He is a rewarder of those
that seek Him. Ours is the task just to follow in Christ's footsteps, just
to be christians worthy of His Name.
