The Treasure and the Treasure Chest

There is a difference between the treasure and the treasure chest. The treasure chest is his passion, death and resurrection. His passion, death and resurrection are the field in which the treasure is buried. 'X' marks the spot. The spot is his passion, death and resurrection.

God poured more and better theology into the passion, death and resurrection than into the heads of every apologist, theologian, Doctor of the Church, apostle, monk, abbot, mystic, priest, monsignor, bishop, Cardinal, Pope, hermit and saint who has ever lived or will ever live.

In the ink of his passion, death and resurrection, Jesus wrote the autobiography of God.

Do you want to learn the identity of God? Read his Autobiography. Do you want an answer to the question, "Who is God?". Read his Autobiography.

In the pigments of his passion, death and resurrection, Jesus painted God's self-portrait.

Where do we look to discover the answer to the question, "Who is God?"? In what field is the treasure buried ? Can we narrow the scope of our search to a few square miles? Yes. The answer to the question, "Who is God?" is found in the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The passion, death and resurrection of Jesus is the field in which the treasure is buried . Let's sell all to purchase the field and dig it up!

Many false, inaccurate and conflicting representations of God circulate through the minds of the children of Adam and Eve. The multiplicity of representations creates confusion.  “This is God” some say as they point to their favorite representation of God.  Others point to a different representation and said, “No, this is God.” The controversy goes on ad infinitum. Because of the confusion about the identity of God, the most Holy Trinity desired to set the record straight once and forever. They decided to clear the air. God thought that the answer to the question "Who is God? was so important that he dispatched his dearly beloved Son from heaven to earth to answer the question himself (Mark 12:1-11). The most Holy Trinity did not delegate the task of delivering the answer to a subordinate. They did not give the job to a flunky. They did it themselves. God the Father asked God the Son to deliver the answer to the question "Who is God?. The Father sent his Son from heaven to publish the autobiography of God here on earth. Jesus would paint for us God's self-portrait. He did so in his passion death and resurrection. In this way, we get the truth straight from the horse's mouth. We can listen first to what the Son of God said about himself in answer to the question, "Who is God?, before we listen to what others have said about him elsewhere.

The most Holy Trinity dispatched the Son of God from heaven to earth to answer our question, 'Who is God?', himself. He conveyed the answer to us via his passion, death and resurrection. In his passion, death and resurrection, he revealed the identity of God to us.

The Illumination

The truths that emerged from his passion, death and resurrection and radiated therefrom illuminate the darkness of our understanding of God in a glorious burst of epiphany.

To understand God, behold him in the light of the truths that emerged from his passion,death and Resurrection. In the light of these truths, the identity of God is made known to us .

The conversation between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection is the rock on which we build our understanding of God .