The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
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