Fear Of Mysteries

Jesus taught in parables so that people wouldn’t understand what He was teaching unless the Holy Spirit was drawing them to. Many times, His disciples didn’t understand, but were too afraid or too proud or too stupid to ask Him what He meant. Worse, on days they just asked each other.

When they did ask, He explained Himself. There are many Mysteries in the Scriptures that are not explained in the Scriptures. Proud theologians, feeling they must have an answer for everything, fear questions about Mysteries. I am capitalizing that word because some of them are astoundingly important. Some are never explained in the Book, but would be explained by Him if we asked Him.

The bad alternative, though – of listening to theologians who have invented endings to the stories left unended in the Mysteries, cause answers like these to the question “What was God doing before creation?”:

Martin Luther: “He went into the woods and cut rods to punish good-for-nothing questioners!”

John Calvin: “God was not idle, but was creating hell for curious questioners!”

Yahweh likes Mysteries. He also likes explaining them to His Friends (John 15:14-16).