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Going back to Matthew 11, in his prayer to the Father, Jesus says, | Going back to Matthew 11, in his prayer to the Father, Jesus says, | ||
<blockquote>"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] | <blockquote>"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]</blockquote> | ||
Why Nicodemus? Wasn't he among the "wise and the learned"? John tells us later that Nicodemus does come to believe, and fully: | |||
<blockquote>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])</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>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])</ref></blockquote> | ||
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. | 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. | ||