Again, with a facultative mystery, the mystery persists because some things (for instance, sensation) are meant not to be known analytically or discursively, but to be experienced Romans 5:12 states, therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. the consequence of. Even though teams of scientists around the world are working on great mysteries, from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, the greatest mystery remains personal, the mystery of the self.