Hebrews raise questions

A religious commentator on the CBC Tapestry program concluded recently that God should leave the searcher with the great questions and not answers to the eternal mysteries. The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today invoke some of those questions. The letter to the Hebrews builds on the caution in Psalm 95 that those of hard heart shall not enter into the “rest” of the Divine. The question of exclusion from the delight and intimacy of the Divine is addressed in many ways by believers. The fear of God has been described by some searchers as the fear of the absence of the Presence in day to day life. The All Present and Eternal would seem by nature to never be completely absent. The Gospel of Mark brings the questions of blasphemy and the assertion of an apparently human person into the role of forgiveness and healing which is the domain of the Divine. It was the offence of blasphemy that eventually lead to the execution of Jesus on Calvary. There is no question that humanity often tries to place our earthly motives in the hands of God and to justify acts of greed and idolatry with a attempt to link it to the Will of God. Keep the questions coming.