A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.