Catholics call everything they can't understand that's logically inconsistent and downright contradictory a *mystery*.
It's just an out.
God is not illogical nor contradictory and God will not violate His own laws.
We are aware that some concepts are beyond the grasp of human reason. The only way we know they are true is by the gift of Faith, which the unbaptized do not have.
Protestants attempt to make the Faith reasonable, as if human reason is the measure of all things. This results in many contradictions and negations.
His yoke is easy. Accept it whole and entire. Later on we will understand more fully the things that we cannot comprehend now.
I should have said it is called “The Mystery of Faith”, as it is the only mystery we believe where our senses are telling us something different than our intellect and will assent to with holy Faith in God’s Word.
The mysteries we believe are not a “cop out” as you put it. They are beyond the grasp of human reason. If you modify the mystery to make it within the grasp of reason, applying rationalist principles, you have changed the concept entirely. This gives rise to many different forms of sectarian christianity, each more “reasonable” than the next one.
What Jesus Christ asks us to assent to is quite small and easy. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. But human pride makes a big deal about the items that require some humility.
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It is called the “Mystery of Faith” because all of our senses tell us it is bread, except our ears, which are docile to the teaching of Jesus Christ.
Catholics call everything they can’t understand that’s logically inconsistent and downright contradictory a *mystery*.
It’s just an out.
God is not illogical nor contradictory and God will not violate His own laws.