-Why is the Bible
so mysterious?
The word 'mystery' as used
in the New Testament.(the
word is not used in the Old Testament).means
'hidden', but not a concealed
hidden, rather an unobservable
hidden.(like
the kingdom of God itself), a hidden
from surface observation,
but a coming into view for those who somehow
have come to the point of wanting to know, that being an awakening..Barnes
Notes adds:."The
word mystery in the Bible, properly means a thing that is concealed
or that has been concealed. It does not mean that the thing was incomprehensible
or even difficult to be understood."
Colossians
1:26 "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,
but now is made manifest to his saints."
Acts
17:30 "...God...now commands.(original
'has a message for').all
men every where to repent.(repent
means to change; change from
what and to what?)."
Matthew
7:7 "Ask, and it is given you, seek and you find, knock and it shall
be opened unto you" Ephesians 1:9
"Having made known
unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed
in himself."
All
are now called.(1Timothy
2:4 "Who has all humans saved and to come unto the knowledge of the
truth.").to
the new freedom, already saved and that long ago:.2Timothy
1:9. The freely given stance
they have in Emmanuel Christ, many have yet to hear about, in order to
either
awaken to it or reject
it, for now.
Christ took all sin for all
time upon Him and negated it forever by His death:.Hebrews
2:17 "Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his
brethren.(took
on Him the nature of a man, not the nature of the angelic realm),
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people."
So that now, in Christ, one
cannot be corrupted:.1Corinthians
15:53. There is never again any possibility
of corruption:.1Peter
1:23 "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which lives and abides
for ever."
Corruption is at the
level of man, as was the case for those in the original creation:.Romans
9:31,32; Deuteronomy 32:5.
But in the eternal scheme
of things, your sins didn't matter. Why?
In Christ you are pure
and holy and your spirit is no longer affected by actions at the physical
level, even though your mind may be.(Romans
7:11-25):.1John
3:9 "Whosoever is born of God.(born
of God).does
not commit sin.(in
the original the word 'sin' means 'to miss the mark'; it's saying that
with Christ in you, you never miss the mark because Christ in you is greater
than you in the world {1John 3:20;
4:4},
still having to deal with
the low conscioiousness nature you've had all life),
for his seed remains in him.(the
seed Christ that took away all sin for all time, stays in you:.Hebrews
13:5 "...for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.";
now, one can ignore it and go his own way, but the seed remains awaiting
watering by your thoughts and actions of love).
And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.".You
may not know yet where you stand, as you may
not have awakened to your true stance in God.
When you know this, you are
aware of what those of a lower consciousness just don't see and that is,
you know there is something special about you.(the
seed is what's special about you, see paragraph just above).that
is being bypassed by others:.1John
4:4-8 "You are of God, little children and have overcome them because
greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of
the world, therefore speak they of the world and the world hears them.
We are of God. He that knows God hears us. He that is not of God hears
not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is of God and every one that loves is
born of God and knows God. He that loves not knows not God, for God is
love.".2Peter
1:4; 1John 2:16.
Reaching
others is important:.Ephesians
3:5 "Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as
it is now revealed unto his holy apostles
and prophets
by the Spirit.".Mark
4:11 "And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery
of the kingdom of God.....".Colossians
2:2; 1Timothy 3:9.
A mystery is something that
requires understanding to be made clear and brought to the point of an
overstanding
by seeing it from different angles where it's no longer so mysterious.
Comprised
with.Barnes
Notes:.'the
word mystery with us is commonly
used in the sense of that which is beyond comprehension
and it is often applied to such doctrines
as exhibit.difficulties
which we are not able to explain. But this is not the sense
in which it is commonly used in the Scriptures.
The word mystery, in the
Bible, properly means a thing that is concealed
or that has been concealed. It does not mean that the thing was incomprehensible
or even difficult to bring into comprehension. The thing might be plain
enough if revealed, but it means simply that it had not been made known.
Thus the mysteries of the kingdom do not mean any doctrines incomprehensible
in themselves considered, but simply doctrines about the preaching of the
gospel and the establishment of the new kingdom
of the Messiah
which had not been understood and which were as yet concealed from the
great body of the Judeans at that time:.Romans
16:25,26; 11:25; Ephesians
3:3,4,9. Of this nature
was the truth that the gospel was
to be preached to the Gentiles,
that the polity
of Judah.was
to cease, that the Messiah was to die,
etc.
To the disciples
it was given to know these truths:.Matthew
13:11. It was important for them, as they were to carry the gospel
around the globe back then. To the others it was not then given. They were
too
gross, too Earthly; they had
too.groveling.conceptions
of the Messiah's kingdom to understand these truths, even if presented.
The Pharisees.generally,
were not prepared for it and would not have believed it and therefore he
purposely employed a kind of teaching that they did not comprehend.
The doctrines to which the word mystery relates
may in themselves be clear and simple, but they are hidden in mystery until
they are revealed.'
What is about you and Christ
that could be a mystery? The
soul is key to this mystery.
The mystery of Godliness
is:.1Timothy
3:9,16 "Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience...And
without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness; God was manifest
in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the
Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."
One of the Bible's
mysteries, the fellowship of the mystery.(Ephesians
3:9), is, all
to be saved:.Ephesians
1:10. Here it talks of the Infinite One building His family.(*),
a family of humans now with His very nature of love.(1John
4:8,16).in
them, a family of spirit beings into
eternity. Another mystery is why
evil if God is in control?
We are here to be helpers
of the Creator.."You
are a helper of the Creator.(Colossians
4:11 "...my.(who
is 'my'?.Colossians
1:1).fellowworkers
unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.").and
you are a helper of anyone else and just as the Creator himself, you are
creating creators.(by
helping them awaken and bring
forth what's in the
Soul they are connected with; this awakens them to their true purpose).and
here you come to the point of unity of everyone. And this point of unity
of everyone is the Soul. You should seek that
way which is predetermined for you."....Grigori
Grabovoi.
Another mystery is the calling
of the Gentiles.(Romans
9:30; 11:25; Ephesians
3:1-3,8,9,11;
Colossians 1:26-28),
a thing incomprehensible
to those religious
scholars who were versed in the
Old Testament, as they saw not the oneness of the Creator in others,
but rather separation.
In the Old
Testament, Creator's ancient physical people Israel
were to have nothing to do
with Gentiles. Just as many religious people then figured the Gentiles
were a 'write off', so it is today with many religious
persons fed various doctrines
in their churches leading to figuring 'the rest are going to
hell forever'.
Not so now!.Colossians
1:27.
The Bible can be ambiguous.
This may be so that a rigid
religion as the Old Testament typified would
never happen again. After
all, the 70
A.D. destruction wiped it out so bady that it would never be rebuilt
as it was, to again
subjugate
people under their religion as they had been doing.
The Creator's plan however,
is to bring all together:.Ephesians
4:4; 2:11-22; 1:10.
Creator had raised a wall
between those of ancient Israel and also Judah and the Gentiles,
which in Christ's death was broken down for believers:.Ephesians
2:11-15; Galatians 3:28.
Another mystery shown was:.1Corinthians
15:51.
Another was: the hidden wisdom,
Christ expressing from the heart:.1Corinthians
2:7.
The
perfect would understand:.1Corinthians
2:6. They know by a new inborn sense of
belief that God has great things in store for those accepting Him:.1Corinthians
2:8-14.
And yet another mystery.
The door that opens the deep love a couple can grow into, is their heartfelt
understanding of the feeling God has for all humanity to do what
He did in Emmanuel the Christ:.Ephesians
5:30-33.
Colossians
1:27 "...this mystery...which is Christ in you...."
And another mystery is opened
when one knows His true stance with God as being pure
and holy:.1Timothy
3:9 "Holding the mystery of the.(word
'the' better left out as in the original).faith
in a pure conscience."
Likewise the mystery of
Christ.(Colossians
4:3), that you are righteous because
of gifts from Him.(Romans
5:17; Ephesians 2:8-10; 4:7.{re:
the
measure}).because
of what He willingly went through, so His
loving nature could be in each of us.(it's
the
only hope for the world), that
is, once one indeed realizes the urgency:.Colossians
1:26,27.
The 'mystery of Christ' also
involves that Christ is a body. Overall,
the mystery of Christ was that this mystery was kept from those in the
beginning times on Earth.
The mystery of Christ also
includes the mystery of the Gentiles; that is, that the Gentiles shall
also inherit the Kingdom of God:.Ephesians
3:1-11; Romans 16:25; Colossians
4:3.
The mystery of the gospel
is that God's grace covers all:.Ephesians
6:19; Romans 16:24,25;
Acts
20:24;
Colossians 1:25,26;
Galatians
1:6.
The mystery
of iniquity.
The mystery of God:.Revelation
10:7.
How
to comprehend the mysteries, but...1Corinthians
13:2 "And though I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains and have not charity.(old
English for 'love'),
I am nothing."
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the Bible).regarding
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