THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S MYSTERIES

Resumen

Understanding is the opposite of ignorance or lack of knowledge. In the biblical tradition, human stubbornness, lack of understanding of God and of his ways is adduced to lack of knowledge on the part of Israel, as we read from Hos 4:6, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...". This same ignorance of God's ways is certainly the reason for the unchristian or ungodly attitude of a good number of African Christians. In this paper, it is argued that this ignorance stems from the inability of African Christians to translate into the Christian culture what is already part and parcel of the African belief system and worldview. The epistemic and pastoral objectives of this paper is hereby stated.