Sunday, January 8, 2017

The Face of God

The brightness of his glory1

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable."

Einstein's restless contemplation of the "subtle, intangible, and inexplicable" allowed him to see the invisible fabric of "space and time," but unfortunately, not "the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity"!

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (the only begotten of the Father)..." (cf. John 1:14).



"No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son... he hath declared him" (cf. John 1:18).

His Son "is the image of the invisible God..." (cf. Col 1:15).

"He that seeth me seeth him that sent me" (cf. John 12:45).

"Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father..." (John 14:8-9).

"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6).

"[His Son] being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high"(cf. Hebrews 1:3).

"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them" (2 Corinthians 4:4).



1By NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANGC_6302_Hubble_2009.full.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/NGC_6302_Hubble_2009.full.jpg

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