26. Can I get to know God and things about him?

 We have already said that man can reach to know God with his own reason and mind, okay. But God has wished to reveal to man, his divine inside but also some things man can reach to know through his reason and mind. God is so good. 

For example, God has revealed he is three Persons but anyway only one God. Is it clear? Three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, yet only one God. Well, that’s something you cannot understand nor comprehend totally, for it’s a mystery. 

And Jesus Christ, the Son incarnated, revealed there are those three Persons in God. As I said before, God is so father and loving and good that he has revealed some things – moral and doctrinal – man can achieve to learn through his only mind – also because man is so fallible at getting to know such things. 

And we get to learn all those things by the Bible, Tradition and our mother the Church teaching over the centuries. 

I live in Granada, Spain, you know, the Alhambra palace and all that – amazing. I’m fortunate I live in such a city. Well, you know, if I were blind … I could not contemplate such monuments and the rest of the things we have here. I could get to know them just because someone else can tell me about, and I could make out those beauties in my mind – but, fortunately I can see and thus get to contemplate such marvels. 

So man is powerful and can get to know many a thing, but fortunately he can also see because God has endowed him with the wonderful sense of sight. Man can get to know many a thing about God but God has endowed him with Revelation. How grateful we must be to God for all his benefits. Have a nice day.

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