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Why Nicodemus? Wasn't he among the "wise and the learned"? John tells us later that Nicodemus does come to believe, and fully: | Why Nicodemus? Wasn't he among the "wise and the learned"? John tells us later that Nicodemus does come to believe, and fully: | ||
Nicodemus, '''the one who had first come to him at night''', also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/19:39 Jn 19:39]) | Nicodemus, '''the one who had first come to him at night''', also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about one hundred pounds. ([https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/19:39 Jn 19:39]) | ||
So "the wise and the learned" can discover God. They just have use <u>both</u> wings of faith <u>and</u> reason, and wrap their minds around belief: that is, not to let the limits of reason impede the mysterious, as did Nicodemus. | So "the wise and the learned" can discover God. They just have use <u>both</u> wings of faith <u>and</u> reason, and wrap their minds around belief: that is, not to let the limits of reason impede the mysterious, as did, eventually, Nicodemus. | ||
== From the "mouths of babes" == | == From the "mouths of babes" == | ||