Matthew 13:35

“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

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Mark 4:11

“And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:”

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1 Corinthians 2:14

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14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Jesus spoke in parables.  He was asked often by both his apostles and followers as well as the Jewish Leaders who hated him for the reason.  Matthew 13:35 and Mark 4:11 are the major clues as to why.

Jesus used Parables to reveal mysteries (the things of God hidden to the lost world) to his own, and to conceal the kingdom mysteries to the lost world.

A Parable in the context of a figure of speech is synonymous with a Paradox.

Let’s join our Lord as he looks down and laughs at the heathen. Psalm 2:4 KJB. How many times have you heard an Atheist or Agnostic or the fake Christian say, “How can I believe the Bible? It is full of contradictions.”  And to tell the truth, it is in their eyes.  However, to the saved children of the Living God, we are not asleep as the world but awake and sober and we understand.  Praise God forever Amen!  Hallelujah!  Maranatha!  Even So, Come, Lord Jesus. Amen!

Let’s study the meaning of the Paradox:

See my previous studies on how there are NEVER contradictions in the Bible

The Oxford English Compact Dictionary page 2072:

How the Saint sees the Paradox:

A statement or proposition which on the face of it seems self-contradictory, absurd, or at variance with common sense though on investigation or when explained, it may be proved to be well founded or (according to some) essentially true.

How the world sees and defines a paradox:

Applied to a proposition or statement that is actually self-contradictory or contradictory to reason or ascertained truth. And so essentially absurd or false.

Contrary to received opinion or expectation. A statement or tenet contrary to received opinion or belief.  Often with the implication that it is marvelous or incredible. Sometimes with unfavorable connotation as being discordant with what is held to be established truth, and hence absurd or fantastic with sometimes the connotation as a correction of vulgar error.  1581 Marbeck Notes 791 Paradox is a strange sentence contrary to the opinion of the most part. 1656: Hobbes Liberty Necessity, chance. The Bishop often speaks of Paradoxes with such scorn or detestation that a simple reader would take a paradox either for felony or some other heinous crime, whereas perhaps a more judicious reader knows that a paradox is an opinion not yet generally received.  1697 Burgersdiclus Logic: A Paradox is said to be a problem true against the common opinion such as that viz the earth moves which though it be true, yet may it be so against the common opinion and therefore a Paradox. A conceit contrary to opinion but not to reason. A paralogism is contrary to reason. Hypomone.  A conclusion contrary to what the audience has been led up to expect.

QUANTUM PHYSICS best understood by the Paradox

 INFORMATION

The battle for reality

Quantum mechanics works extremely well to describe the behavior of tiny objects, such as atoms or particles of light (photons). But that behavior is … very odd.

In many cases, quantum theory doesn’t give definite answers to questions such as “where is this particle right now?” Instead, it only provides probabilities for where the particle might be found when it is observed.

For Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the theory a century ago, that’s not because we lack information, but because physical properties like “position” don’t actually exist until they are measured.

And what’s more, because some properties of a particle can’t be perfectly observed simultaneously—such as position and velocity—they can’t be real simultaneously.

No less a figure than Albert Einstein found this idea untenable. In a 1935 article with fellow theorists Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, he argued there must be more to reality than what quantum mechanics could describe.

The Key to major paradoxical scripture.