Blog:Salvation is for the "childlike"? Matthew 11:25: Difference between revisions
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Clearly Jesus did not mean that the "wise and the learned" cannot know the Father. Instead, he said that the Father had "hidden these things" from them, while leaving it to the Son to reveal him to them: | Clearly Jesus did not mean that the "wise and the learned" cannot know the Father. Instead, he said that the Father had "hidden these things" from them, while leaving it to the Son to reveal him to them: | ||
<div class="bible">Yes, Father, such has been your gracious<ref>Note the perfect definition here of the word "gracious" when attached to the Father's "will" -- the source of all Grace!</ref> will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." | <div class="bible">Yes, Father, such has been your gracious<ref>Note the perfect definition here of the word "gracious" when attached to the Father's "will" -- the source of all Grace!</ref> will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." [https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/11?26 Mt 11:26-27])<ref>Being thoughtful or not, we might stumble over a couple clues here as to whom Jesus "wishes to reveal " the Father -- clearly that revelation "processes" from the Father and through the Son (back to St. Thomas: see [[Holy Trinity]])</ref> </div> | ||
We're left wondering not only what "childlike" means, but also why would God hide "these things" from certain people? | We're left wondering not only what "childlike" means, but also why would God hide "these things" from certain people? | ||