A paradox of knowing The Way, Truth and Life but can still misunderstand and misinterpret Him, and how the best interpretation is the challenging to the existing.
This resonated with the minister & linguist side of me .. ❤️🎆📖
To understand God as a mystery is something powerful in refraining us from being binary discriminative towards those who don't share our creeds.
To understand that the early Church was almost totally Jews doesn't simply means we (mostly "gentiles") should (with less wisdom & less considering the relevance with the New Covenant) be promoting "all things Jewish" as divine. I believe many of you readers have such peaceful minds and hearts to not consider this as an anti-Semitic statement. Instead, understanding that fact, also with the stories in The Book of Acts, reminded me constantly of how they're being brought out (and beyond) of their context & paradigms by רוח קדוש The Spirit into something more perfect & eternal.
Being a Hebrew learner myself I'm constantly working & praying to balance my admiration of God's Word in ancient manuscripts & original tongue with the mystical, Spirit illuminated reading of it.
This way, I was in constant caution not to worship my understanding of the texts instead of The God of the Bible. Why? Come to think of it, even the apostles (all Jews) we're surprised many times* and were made aware that while their experience with the risen Messiah was TRUE, their understanding of what He has in mind is NOT always the same case, they are open for expansion, thus in The Spirit they're continually being pushed to get used to "different".
*Especially started when Jesus provocatively asked whether they understood "that it's been said about His death and resurrection on the third day" while there's actually no plain word per word writing of that in the Tanakh, Jesus didn't make things up, He was referring to the illuminated reading.
*Then Jesus commanded them to go outside Jerusalem and disciple the nations, totally contrary to the centralistic view of God's presence in geographical Jerusalem temple.
*Then, the story of Cornelius. Turn out salvation and gift of the Spirit are for all tribes & tongues, Israelites by flesh is no longer an exclusive, privileged people of God and heirs of Abrahamaic covenant.
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