Things hard to understand

It is a good thing for some of us that people will not get into heaven according to how much they understand of the deep theological truths of Christianity. Even Peter found the letters of Paul difficult in some places. (See, 2 Peter 3:15-16)

We need to read the letters of Paul, difficult as they are. You may not always understand everything you read, but it will point you in a direction.

Just because we do not fully understand a thing, does not mean it is not true. If there is something we do not fully understand, we have to just carry it. God has the answer; we will come to it some day.

If we take all the mystery out of our world, we will take God out of it. That is not an answer.

We do not need to dogmatize our opinions of the deep things of our religion. Church leaders have done this in an attempt to prevent people falling into error on a faith or intellectual level, but it has brought hordes of people into the moral error of disunity, fragmenting the body of Christ over definitions.

Yet we do need to try to fathom the richness that we find in the word of God. It needs an approach that is humble enough to acknowledge our limitations; and it needs an insight that includes the perception of our spirit together with the understanding of our intellect.

In Romans 8:16 we read, ‘The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.’ Note that it says the Spirit bears witness with our spirit, not to our intellect, though of course, the intellect will also want to grasp it.