divine mystery
Holy unknowable truth
A divine mystery is something related to God or the sacred that exceeds human understanding—not merely unknown but fundamentally beyond rational comprehension.
Religious traditions speak of divine mysteries: the Trinity, the Incarnation, the nature of grace.
The phrase suggests that some truths must be accepted through faith rather than explained through reason.
The priest spoke of salvation as a divine mystery.
- numinousSpiritually awesome, beyond ordinary
- ineffableBeyond verbal expression
- GodSupreme spiritual authority
- holy spiritSacred immaterial divine presence
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
grace · sacred art · burning bush · afterlife · omnipotence · theophany · awe · revelation · mysterium tremendum · incarnation · paradox · dark night · eternity · prophecy · leap of faith · contemplation · scripture · mythos
- mythologyZeus, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Odin
- divinitydeity, godhood, godhead, holiness, godliness
- apophatic theologynegative theology, via negativa, unsaying, unknowing, negation
- sacred aweawe, holiness, sacredness, sanctity, reverence
- theodicytheodicy, problem of evil, greater good, innocent suffering, human suffering
- TrinityHoly Trinity, Father, Holy Spirit, three persons, one God
divine mysteryplain truth
Honest, unembellished reality
self-evident truth · common knowledge · simple truth · open book · open secret
divine mysterynatural phenomenon
Occurrence not human-caused
material fact · physical reality · human understanding · scientific explanation