God-revealed truth is perceived spiritually. "We have not accepted the spirit of this world, but the Spirit who comes from God to know what is given to us by God. This is preached not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit, by comparing the spiritual with the spiritual. The soul man does not perceive what is of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness; and God can not understand it because it is being studied spiritually. . . And we have the mind of Christ "(1 Corinthians 2: 12-16).

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In the quoted text from St. Ap. Paul is given with unambiguous clarity this distinction between "the soul man" (p. is the sense of knowledge and the rational structure built on it and the sphere of spirit. In this classification, "the soul man does not perceive what is of the Spirit of God" because it is a reality of another gradation and order of another quality, and it "does not come from this world but from the Spirit Who Comes from God." This truth can be understood, compared, and studied only spiritually. We perceive God's Revelation in the form of words, historical acts, and events reflected in St. John's, Scripture and Sts. Tradition. In this religious act, whose existential basis is faith, the seeking God personality is exalted to the true essence of God's knowledge. And if faith has its actual transformation where man meets God as a person, where the Christian resides in union with Jesus, then that means according to the definition of St. Apostle. Paul in Christ to be, to follow him, to live in His Spirit, to have His thoughts. Philip. 2: 5), from His Word to live, in His light to stand. It is in this spiritual state that the true knowledge of God is also possible.

God-revealed truth is eschatological. It gives the all-round meaning of everything that exists, and reveals in the final moments of the development of nature and society the celebration of the Logos - the Sun of righteousness. It is true, not only for the existence of the individual, but also for the whole universe. God-destined truth is rescue. As a path outlined by the Christian faith in the element of evangelical love, from this truth emerge the inexorable hope of confirming the immortal glow of the thinking spirit over the non-existence and cruel inexorability of corruption. It is the truth that brings salvation into eternal life. The revealed truth is truth from another gradation of being, which is why it is expressed in the mysterious meaning of the symbol. "Faith puts the knowledge of dogmatic truths in a symbolic garment, in a figurative language, concealing by consecutive contradictions the superior truth and the depth of contemplation," writes a candle. P. Florenski. For a Christian who sees God with the eyes of faith, the ideas in the divine Revelation are truths of a higher order and the reality of God's being - the highest reality. These truths are absolute in nature, just as God Himself is absolute in His nature. But they are not static and abstract, because acting existentially in man, they are life and upward dynamic creativity. And these are not abstract abstractions, since "the transcendent is not the infinite distance, but the immediate. . . , where Christ's truth is embodied in the human community and its particular being is the love of man. . . ".

God-revealed truths are preserved, formulated, taught and explained by the Church, which is their sacred bearer in the historical development of mankind. This Church, praying and rightly glorifying God, believing and teaching, guided by the Spirit Jesus Christ (John 16: 13) penetrates deeper into the depths of the Word, so that we may also know His truth, which is our light (John 1: 9), our way and life (John 14: 6).

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