BIBLE:
APPARENT CONTRADICTIONS; MYSTERY: ACCEPTANCE OF

The beginner in Christ will not have read long in the Scriptures till he comes upon passages that appear to contradict each other.…

Far better than the attempt to understand is the humility that admits its ignorance and waits quietly on God for His own light to appear in His own time. We will be better able to understand when we have accepted the humbling truth that there are many things in heaven and earth that we shall never be able to understand. It will be good for us to accept the universe and take our place in the mighty web of God’s creation, so perfectly known to Him and so slightly known to even the wisest of men. “The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.”…

No one should be ashamed to admit that he does not know, and no Christian should fear the effect of such a confession in the realm of things spiritual. Indeed the very power of the cross lies in the fact that it is the wisdom of God and not the wisdom of man. The day we manage to explain everything spiritual will be the day that we have (for ourselves) destroyed everything divine.

Psalm 25:9; Isaiah 40:12–15; Romans 11:33–36; 1 Corinthians 2:6–8

The Root of the Righteous, 87, 88, 89.