Positive Overtones

  Cheesecakes have always been a delight to my taste buds. But, until recently, I never realized the deep meaning it points to. It isn’t about its taste although I prefer the classic strawberry cheesecake over all other variants of cheesecake. It is the cake’s s tructure that really helped me understand a deeper reality. In Christian theology, we have something known as the mysteries of faith. These mysteries have be en revealed by God to us and we believe it by faith since our human reason is not so perfect so as to comprehend it. Nevertheless, we try to explain these mysteries by way of analogies. One of the most challenging mysteries to analogise (don’t bother searching through a Dictionary, because I have just coined it… it means to explain by analogy) is the mystery of the Trinity. There have been many attempts made towards explaining this mystery, the most popular one being St. Patrick’s clover leaf. A more contemporary attempt that I have come across has used th...

When we learn arithmetic and mathematics, the first type of calculation we learn is addition. One plus one makes two; two plus one makes three; three plus one makes four, and so on. It is only when we advance in grades that we learn the so-called ‘complex’ arithmetic calculations like multiplication and division. Now, it is quite ironic that God in his infiniteness and majesty is actually a God of multiplication. David Bentley Hart speaks of God as absolute simplicity. If it is so, then how can we conclude that God is the ‘God of multiplication’? For that, I reflected on key events in scripture that help bring out the ‘multiplication factor’ present in God.   We take the first event that is noted in the book of Genesis. After God had created night and day, the sun and the moon, the stars in the night, the sea and its creatures, land and the animals, He created man and formed him in His own image. Later, as he was looking for a suitable partner for man, he created a woman out of...