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seanom
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Is it wrong to try and understand church mysteries like the trinity etc?
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JaredR
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On the contrary, it’s your duty.
A mystery isn’t something we can’t begin to understand. A mystery is something we can partially understand but is beyond our ability to fully understand.
We can understand a great deal (relatively speaking) about mysteries like the Holy Trinity, though it requires serious intellectual effort.
I recommend Theology and Sanity by F. J. Sheed if you are interested in the difficult task of studying God’s nature.
A mystery isn’t something we can’t begin to understand. A mystery is something we can partially understand but is beyond our ability to fully understand.
We can understand a great deal (relatively speaking) about mysteries like the Holy Trinity, though it requires serious intellectual effort.
I recommend Theology and Sanity by F. J. Sheed if you are interested in the difficult task of studying God’s nature.
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Ohana
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The older I get, the more I respect and enjoy the golden mean. That applies to your question in this way. First of all, I do not think it is wrong to try and understand mysteries. I am pretty intellectually curious myself. Where that gets me into trouble is when I start spinning my wheels on what is essentially un-understandable. That is the point at which doubt, confusion, frustration etc, enter the picture. So I guess I would share with you that I have come to the point that I just have to accept the truth of the mystery and not worry overmuch about the whys and hows of it. This is not so much giving up, as it is coming to a point of humility and trust. The mystery becomes less a pursuit of intellectual understanding and more of a dance with God. Your intellectual and scholarly ability might be (probably are) much greater than mine, so go for it as you can. Just do so with with the understanding that it is not totally an intellectual pursuit. The golden mean in this case has been letting go (there is my age again!!) of the pursuit and simply rest in the unknowable. 
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Christian_polk
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Trying to understand them is possibly a little forward in comparison to anyone`s intelligence
level .
Who can bring to mind such selective perfection .
Being given the answer
But trying to understand them is quite surely not against any conceited value .
level .
Who can bring to mind such selective perfection .
Being given the answer
s to any mystery questions that are wanted might not always be the answers you will like , but negativity aside , being given those particular answers is all we can hope to receive under grace and always usually when we least expect them .But trying to understand them is quite surely not against any conceited value .
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Jesus_123
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+God’s precious Holy :bible1: Word abundantly encourages us to study and learn . . .
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Carefully study to present thyself
approved unto
**God, **
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly handling the word of truth.
- 2 Timothy 2:15
*God bless . . . *
:bible1:
Carefully study to present thyself
approved unto
**God, **
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly handling the word of truth.
- 2 Timothy 2:15
*God bless . . . *
. . . all for Jesus+*
. . . thank You Sweet Spirit of our Holy God+
. . . thank you Blessed Virgin Mary+
. . . thank you Holy Mother Church+*
. . . thank You Sweet Spirit of our Holy God+
. . . thank you Blessed Virgin Mary+
. . . thank you Holy Mother Church+*
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RICKY_RASPER
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What are the mysteries of the Catholic church ?
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Ohana
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Short Answer: Anything you don’t understand! Longer answer is those things which we cannot understand through human logic. This would include things like the Trinity - three Gods in one person. Another group of mysteries, and perhaps a subset of mysteries like the Trinity, are the mysteries of the Rosary. There are at least four sets of 5 mysteries each. On the surface they are more “understandable”, yet in meditating on the mystery of each decade of the Rosary while saying the Hail Mary’s, one sometimes comes to a deeper understanding of that mystery. (Mary always leads one to Christ). So a mystery can also lead one to deeper or fuller understanding. I give examples here. I do not think there is any official list of “mysteries” of the Catholic Church.
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FCEGM
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Make that one God - three Persons.
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Ohana
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Yikes, that is right! I really misspoke! Thanks for the correction.Make that one God - three Persons.
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mamaslo
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I don’t think it is wrong to try, but if you mean “understand” in such a concrete way as we usually mean, then you will end up frustrated. If you approach it with the fruit of the spirit and with wonder and awe, you will learn, and learn, and learn about the mysteries.
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domandcarols
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No, as someone above said it’s our duty to understand it and strive for explanations to our questions.
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