Gospel/Heaven's Gate

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Gospel/Heaven's Gate

Today's gospel is the provocative gate gospel where Christ talks about the sheep hearing the shepherd's voice and entering through the gate. There are a couple of questions here. 

First, the shepherd's voice is familiar to his sheep; how does that translate to humans? Is there a Socratic recognition of the truth or the holy? Is that innate? Is our tendency toward the good and holy?

Second, does this gospel suggest a personal relationship with the Divine?