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We are running in circles, because you understand death as being anihilation, whereas the Church understands death as separation from Life. Life with capital L. Death is the state of being outside of God. There are varying degrees of the same faith. Jesus Christ revealed Himself on various...

The Holy Communion is the central point of the christian faith: it is the real body and blood of Jesus Christ. The Church is not a building, but the Body of Christ. We become members of His Body through participation in the life of the Church.

I understood perfectly what you said, what period of time you were reffering to. They met in catacombs in order to eat the Body and drink the Blood of Jesus Christ. I no longer remember where I have read this, but, I read that christians used the catacombs not so much as hiding places, but as...

I realized you are either a seventh day adventist, or a Jehovah witness. If it's not the case, you certainly sound like one of the two. Which is why, I don't see a reason to continue the debate because you have an entirely different theology and that is the cause of our misunderstanding. I am...

You consider 'destruction' of the wicked a more 'human' way to deal with the unsaved. Eternal torment, as the Church One understands it, doesn't mean that the devils torture you and boil you in hot water. Eternal torment comes from the person's incapacity of loving. We have this life (rather...

Death is the consequence of sin. God became flesh in order to conquer death, the thing that parasites our relation with God; remember: God created man for communion. This communion is broken by sin. We commit sins, but as long as we are alive (our bios is alive), we can repent and get closer to...

And yet, that's exactly what the early church did: meet in a specific place, on specific days in order to eat the Holy Body and drink the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. This is what gave them power to confess Him and power to endure the tortures and persecutions they had been subject to. I...

God is Life. Men can not be in communion with God as long as he worships death under the form of the goodies and temptations of this earthly world. When man repents (undergoes metanoia - changing of the mind, adquisition of the mind of God), he receives the uncreated grace of God and is drawn...

1. God interacted with Adam and Eve when they were in the garden of Eden (paradise on earth, somewhere in Irak)). After their sin they have been chased from Eden, sin and death contaminated the creation and the humans, Eden had been destroyed and this is how the human drama begins. God...

The phrase I put in bold is not true. They did not die of a physical death in the very next moment, they actually got to live a lot of years on earth, but separated from God (spiritual death): they used to live in the garden Eden and after their sin, they have been chased out of heaven (being...

It’s not written black on white. Jesus Christ talks about the second death when he says that we shan’t be afraid of those who can kill the body, but rather fear those who can kill both the body and the soul and throw them into the lake of fire. Revelations 2, 11 mentions it too. In Revelations...

second death = eternal torment The death (separation of God) those in hell experience is conscious. When the Kingdom of God comes, we will be in eternity. We will be given knew bodies: those who are saved will be clothed in Christ, and the unsaved will be naked (whithout glory), they are...

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my way, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." All our life is a worship: we must strive to please God. We come with offerings and God...

The second problem is that Christianity is in decline worldwide. Is this because God is selecting far fewer people to save? The harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few.

In the beginning it was love… God is love because he is Trinity of persons. Love is not God’s attribute, it’s His way of being. Love can not manifest if there’s only one individual. We aré called to unite with God’s love and we do so by loving Him and our neighbor. Salvation is achieved through...

God loves us with a crazy love while Satan hates us with a savage hatred.

You gain more knowledge of God if you genuinely believe the story of Genesis, than if you intellectualize it and become too savant about it. Intelligence is not a path towards God, but towards pride; pride is the sin that most separate men from God. Honesty and humility are the virtues that...

I agree with you on the point that Genesis is not modern science, but theological message. Science studies God's creation, how things function, whereas the Bible is a guide towards re-uniting with God. It tells you how man got separated from God because of sin and death, how Jesus Christ...

Isaiah 63: Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, proclaiming victory. mighty to save." Why are your garments red, like those of one treading...

Asceticism is the practice of self-denial, as you said, and of denying this world. So, yes, every christian should take up his cross and live in modesty. If we want to rejoice in the goodies of the kingdom of God, we must renounce the goodies of this world. That's the meaning of the cross, of...