What am I missing bere? Catholics have been mocked and reviled more than once on this thread alone for calling things "Mysteries" -- we know and accept what the Church teaches about the Trinity, and the first thing she teaches is that it's a Mystery -- utterly inaccessible to human understanding. We know things about the Trinity; we do not claim to understand it. IIRC, it's a Protestant who claimed on this to "understand" the Incarnation, which the Church also teaches as a Mystery.
To us, a Mystery is not something irrational and fuzzy, rather something more and greater than rational, with an eternal clarity we cannot hope to encompass, though we can learn about them, gain some insight into them, be refreshed by them -- and never exhaust them.
BTW, it seems to be Protestants on this thread who are given to posts about what "God thinks" and "as God sees it," etc.
Thanks for noticing. That's because Protestants read the Bible to learn what God has revealed of Himself to men given eyes to see and ears to hear.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another." -- Isaiah 48:3-11"I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
Just look at all that God is telling us about how He thinks and what He sees.
And we post Scripture to back it up as opposed to the musings and fantasies passed of as *tradition* on equal par with Scripture that the Catholics post.
Catholics are no strangers to popsting what they think God thinks, but the problem is, they don't use any God given authoritative source, like Scripture. The church just can't legitimately make up stuff and pass it off as truth. It has no basis nor legitimate foundation without Scripture.
You didn't miss a thing. It was a basic sophistry comparable to accusing someone who claims to know how to frame a doorway of claiming to be able to build the Empire State building by himself.