The whole other

Sunday August 1, 2021

The whole other

The blessed and only sovereign, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, will reveal it when the time is right. He is the only one to possess immortality, he who dwells in an inaccessible light and whom no man has seen nor can see. 1 Timothy 6: 15-16

Unlike most so-called sacred books, the Bible presents a God who is nothing like his creatures. God is the Whole Other, the only immortal, invisible... Phew ! We could not be satisfied with a God who would be on our scale ! It would be an idol, nothing more.

Only, what can we do with an inaccessible God ?... so great, we so little ; so holy, we so soiled, so unique, we so dependent ?

The Good News - the Gospel - is that the Whole Other made himself the Whole Alike. It is an incomprehensible truth, but it is the very key to the salvation of men. In order to "be seen" by us, the Invisible, the Unknowable, became man in Jesus, so that all the disciples could, like John, have written : What we heard, saw with our eyes, contemplated and that our hands have touched […] we announce it to you. Indeed, he who is the Word became man and he lived among us. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself. (1 John 1.1,3 ; John 1.14 ; 2 Corinthians 5.19)

Jesus was God revealing Himself to us and it is the Scriptures - the Bible - that bear witness of Jesus. (John 5.39) There only, we can meet the Whole Other and let ourselves be found by Him.

Richard Douliere

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Proposed reading : Gospel according to John, chapter 1, verses 1 to 18.

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