Musterion I

" Christanity is full of mystery. All the great doctrines of the faith are, in the last analysis, mysteries. Who can explain creation? ( ' He spoke and it was done ' ) the origin of evil? ( ' By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin.' ) the nature of God? ( ' God is spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable...' ) the nature of man? ( ' made in the image of God...and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.' ) incarnation? ( ' And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. ') passion? ( ' This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.' ) resurrection? ( ' He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.') ascension? ( ' A cloud took him out of their sight. ') Theology labels and describes these things. It does not explain them.
Sexuality is a mystery. It represents one of the deepest of spiritual mysteries: the relationship between Christ and the Church. We will get hold of this better if it is enacted. There are two ' theaters' in which this mystery is played out: the Christian home, and the local church. This is the reason, I believe, why such clear and unequivocal instructions are issued regarding how men and women are to conduct themselves in those two places. They are actors in a play in which tremendous heavenly mysteries are being enacted on stage. We have got to stick to the parts assigned and follow the director, and in so doing we will discover, as we could not in any other way, our true nature and our destiny."

Excerpt from " The Mark Of A Man" by Elisabeth Elliot

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...
Proverbs 1:7

God created man in His own image, in THE IMAGE OF GOD He created him; male and female He created them.........God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
Genesis 1:27, 31