an early 19 th Century paleontologist got in trouble with the Vatican Curia as he tried to express his speculations about the mystery of the ineffable God in nature and evolution. God is a word that we use to refer to that mystery beyond human understanding and reason.Ī mystic is a person who has a conscious experience of the mystery of God. Because they are limited human expressions, they are all, each in their unique manner, inadequate to the ineffable mystery of God. Mathematics, poetry, music, philosophy and theology are all ways of talking about God. Ineffable is a word that means extreme or inexpressible. We can say what God is like, but we can’t say what God is, because God is ineffable mystery. God is not some super-being that lives out beyond our solar system. Mystical experience is literally the experience of the ineffable mystery of God. TOT- Theology of the Body- Dating & Marriage.
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