3 Revelation in the Early Church and the Bible


Revelation of God, and say the teachings of God, something deep, easy to think, kind of secrets revealed. Something like the mystery principle seems to be written in the Bible. leave the lust, eliminate all my thoughts, a clean heart and a clean life. Since only these people can read the Bible and get in touch with the essence of salvation there, they may feel that they can not do it because they are not enough to study and practice. It may be true.
But this does not understand alone.

What is all about this, such as a clean mind, a clean life, and a sedition of wickedness. If I'm careless here, I will fall into the weak point of Platonism, that is, the mistake of Gnosis, in places where I practice and realize enlightenment. Gnostic
Aim for high spirits and concentration of spirit, which is completely different from Christ's gospel teaching. But it is also true that God's call for salvation comes to the mind's purest. Then we need to make this relationship a little more clear. It is also important for Christology.

This is also related to the New Testament, especially the circumstances of the establishment of the Gospel. This is the process until the Bible has come to the present form, that is, how the book of the Divine Sense was written, until the early church got such a book. The genius of salvation is shown to us,also. It seems that the Bible has been given to the early church, just in the same way. The Bible is not a literary work for ordinary appreciation.

It is sufficient to carefully read and appreciate such things as war's experiences and great men's stories. A bloody story about a bloody war, a record of a life that has become desperately survived. This is a comfortable room and you can taste it quite pleasantly, even if you sit down and read in a comfortable sofa. If you are a bit smart, even if you are lying down, as to relive that writing can be sufficiently. For the general public, reading in the study is sufficient.

But it is not enough to read the Bible, and it lacks something important. This is not to say that you have to read respectfully because the Bible is written from God. There is also that, but that alone is not enough. There is something like a condition for God's life of salvation to be incarnated in this world. If it is missing, there are things that do not incarnate, even if you read the Bible.