The Fullness of Life
The Divine Perfections (Part I)
To live a God-centered life we must first know God. To know Him we must first believe in Him, especially in His Self-disclosure which we call "Divine Revelation." Divine Revelation can either be public or private. Public Divine Revelation came down to us through Sacred Scripture (the Bible) and Sacred Tradition (divinely revealed truths which are handed down to us apart from the Bible). Private revelations are so many and they are carefully scrutinized by Church's experts--often for long period of time--before their authenticity are officially approved.
While it is impossible to know God fully as He truly is-- certainly, not in this life because even our most intimate knowledge of Him by faith in His Self-disclosure will be, as St. Paul put it, "as through a mirror, darkly"--yet, I would venture to say that even in the life hereafter when we shall "see Him face to face" (no longer in the light of faith but in the light of glory), still our discovery of who God is will be an unending ecstatic absorption into the mysterious unfolding of the infinite perfections of this Eternal Being. Heaven will be an unending blissful experience of the infinite wonder and beauty and majesty and unending newness of the Divine Essence. Even with the passing away of trillions of centuries, God who is without beginning will remain ever new and fresh in the unfolding of His divine mysteries without end.
(to be continued)