The bible as mystery novel:

I love how St Paul called things “mysteries”—there is the mystery of marriage (which indeed is a mystery!), the mystery of the gospel itself, and to Timothy, the “mystery of Godliness”, or living well, which is based on Jesus having actually incarnated, and wanting to inside of us, which produces the mystery of godliness in us.

I like life being a series of unpacking or incarnationally solving or embodying mysteries. Then the bible becomes more a mystery novel.

It is like Paul invites us to know or enter the mysteries as well, and sometimes explains them, as he did in Timothy—pursue righteousness, flee the ways of death which include….Nice of him to break it down for us, while inviting us into the mysteries. Some people don’t like mystery novels. I think they are more honest to how life actually is.