What about experiences they have sans veil? Because you have identified them as mistakes, do you really think they are mistakes? Or possibly that is the only way your mind can process them. Have you ever considered the possibility that they are not mistakes?
I am not identifying the
experiences as mistakes. I am saying that once we attempt to express and conceptualize them, we will run into imperfections in doing so.
Take a very basic example- the color orange. So much simpler than experiencing God. Just experiencing orange. But there are languages in the world that have no word for "orange." They have light, dark, and red. How would you adequately communicate the difference between the orange of an orange and the orange of a peach in that language? Would it really be communicating the same thing as what you see in your mind? And how can you be sure that the categories in your brain, the conceptualization of these colors, are the same thing as the real thing? You can invite a person with this other language to look at an orange and a peach, and maybe they will agree there is a difference, and perhaps not. They can experience the same thing, but that doesn't mean that you'll be about to talk in the same way about.
If we can't even adequately and perfectly express what orange looks like, how much more limiting is our language and conceptualization of God? To take the Creator- an infinite, eternal Being- and try to boil Him down into some words? To me, the words point at the experience but never perfectly describe it.
Perhaps you can get closer to God.
I certainly hope so. That is my path and my journey, to draw ever closer to Him.
Once you die to self and live in Him, the veil has been eliminated. Personally, I enjoy having a body (and mind) not temporarily veiled. Perfection beyond this earthly expression is something I anticipate, but in the mean time …
When Jesus conquered death, the veil was torn in half. (Although trying to repair that veil seems to be some people’s goal in life…) I admit I am speaking literally. Maybe the “mistake” was using the word “veil.” No cover is necessary when you are dealing with honest Christianity.
I think, again, we are using the term differently. I use veil to mean the limitations of our body, brains, and language. Expression and conceptualization, both present in all religions so as to make them communal, is necessarily filtered through our brains, language, and cultural upbringing. After we die, these will all be perfected and made one in God, so we will no longer have these limitations.
Jesus conquered that which separates us from God, so we can now experience Him. At our death, we are freed from the limitations of our earthly, imperfect bodies and societies, so we are able to perfectly experience each other and express our worship of God as one- the Body of Christ.
