Spiritual adventure

Exodus, a single historical event and at the same time paradigm for men of all times. Paradigm of every authentic liberation. Paradigm of hope. It says you can always leave the lands of servitude. Prototype of any exodus, the exit of Egypt and entry into the promised land.

Exodus summarizes the whole Bible in its infinite movement 'out of'. Exodus is the originating experience in the Scriptures and the central light of its writing. Starting from the Exodus everything takes sense. What precedes and what follows.

That the Word of God in the Bible takes the form of a history - a Sacred History - is heavy of extreme significance. This 'sacred' history is also the most 'human' of all. Can men venture also far with their God without being marked by him in the deepest of their being and their culture? In which other human experience do you find in such a deep relevance what means 'out of, and 'going ahead'?

With the emergence of his historical conscience, man loses his security bases and his ontological optimism. From now on he is delivered to adventure and risk. The profound safety brought by the logic of the eternal cycles is broken. Time starts to exist and to bite. Man discovers himself situated in contingency. He is not any more a simple piece of the cosmic necessity and subjected to the blind destiny, but faces the responsibility for his existence. Man is, like God, creative freedom. The adventure opens an infinity. In this new space of freedom each moment becomes irreversibly decisive. Often tragically decisive. Excessiveness is possible as grave or sin. Nothing is never definitively played. There remains always something to be accomplished. Adventure is infinite.

The animal has this extraordinary faculty to be completely at home in nature. He lives in absolute harmony with it. He says a 'yes' without question and without possibility of question. Without suspicion and possibility of suspicion. So to say in a pure 'inside' without faults. Why is man so different? Why can authentic humanity be carried out only in the exodus of an 'out of'? With the emergence of his historical conscience, man loses his security bases and his ontological optimism. From now on it is delivered to adventure and risk.

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