2. The devil has nothing good to offer to man, so he diverts him to worship the beautiful creatures of God, and not God himself.
3. Many people have confessed their sins even in public where they can't even get the due forgiveness. Others don't confess to a spiritual father who has the authority from Christ himself to announce forgiveness. What a pity!! Could they know what injustice they do to themselves, in what a big danger they leave themselves, and what relief they deprive their conscious.
4. The most dangerous lie by which the devil deceives the careless is to make them believe that he doesn’t exist. Therefore, they take his evil signs to be their own wisdom.
5. Whoever leans only on his own abilities and not on God is like one who leans with his hands on a rotten walking stick.
6. WITH DEATH EVEN THE SOUL DIES ?
No, because the soul doesn’t die believing with the teaching the holy Bible, of the holy traditions but with other religious and philosophical theories. The lord declared with concern, ‘Don’t fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.(Math. 10,28).The soul therefore, leave after the death of the body.
Other wise, there also words brought during the resurrection of the daughter of Jaures , <<and her Spirit >> at once, and they gave her the food.(Luke. 8,55) Because the daughter had died, but even they say that her soul came back. It means that the soul didn’t die because if the soul had disappeared, they wouldn’t say that it came back. But the soul stays alive even after death.
7. WHAT IS SPIRITUAL DEATH?
Spiritual death is disappearance/ absence of the soul from the community , society of the person , with the Spirit of God. Even that can happen before the death of the body occurs, as it seen in areas of the holy Bible, from some which are represented as follows: A. The people who live in darkness, have seen a great light, and shadow of death on them a light has been shown.(Math 4,16) B.I was once alive apart from the law ,but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.(Romans, 7,9-10).
But after the death of the body, the spirit continues but if before the bodily didn’t have the cause of the death, which is the sin, because the wage of sin is death.(Romans.6,23). Exactly, its possible for the person to dismiss the spiritual death before the bodily death, basing on the lord’s words “ Every one who lives and believes in me shall never die.(John, 11,26). On the other hand, this should be the aim/ target every believer, or conquest of the century.
8. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE SOUL/SPIRIT TO CONQUER DEATH?
As Christ is the winner of sin and death, the spiritual death loose the power for all of those who accepts the salvation redeemer/rescuer , and opens for them widely in the eternal life. Truly, truly, I say to you whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He doesn’t come into judgment , but has passed from death to life.( JOHN, 5,24) Therefore, the problem of death is solved to whoever needs be helped or taken by the truth of revelation , and doesn’t stay in the land of salvation brought by Christ with rescuing work. In that sense, death loose its amazing face , and the eternal life becomes reality, because the last enemy to be destroyed is death(Corinthians. 15,26).
9. IS THE PHRASE POSITIVE ACTION HOLDS/ACCEPTED THEOLOGICALLY?
Not exactly because, if it remains positive action is the best from the negative, but Theology in most cases holds Godly actions .Apostle Paul write concerning,<<for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure>>(Philippians.2,13).
But why therefore some thing which is positive, is not called Godly, after all is coming from God? In other words,<<Every good gift and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change>>(James. 1,17).
By John Dimos
Translated by Fr. Emmanuel Mbalire