💭 How Do We Understand Death and Resurrection? (2) 🌿 Thus, humanity inherited death. The inheritance of death here originated from humanity being born without communion with God. This is what is meant by the fall of Adam and the first sin. It is only within this framework that we must understand the clear contrast between man and the law in the writings of St. Paul the Apostle. After Adam's fall, human nature came under the penalty of death and the curse of the law because of the fall. "For when man sinned, he fell under the curse of the law, which God established with the force of a curse for all who transgress the law" (Rom 7:6). Death was not only a natural result of losing communion with God, but now, because of Adam's sin, it also resulted from the law and was linked to it as the curse of transgression. Along with this, a new element also entered: the subjection of human nature to the devil and the dominion of evil spirits over man (John 14:30-31). Therefore, death consists of three main elements: 1. The loss of the grace that comes from God, which grants him life. 2. The falling of man under the judgment of the curse stemming from transgressing the law, thus giving the law the power of death. 3. The subjection of man to the devil because of his participation in the temptation. (to be continued...) #Theology #Death #Resurrection #Sin #Law #Curse #Satan #HumanNature

🌀 The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency 🌀 We exist in life completely naked; we are born naked and die naked. Thus, we need everything: air, water, food, clothing, shelter. We cannot live without these necessities, just as we cannot live without others. We enter life in complete poverty, and we receive life from God, from the universe, and from people. This richness, if according to true existence by the grace of God, allows us to live a true human life. But if it is the false existence distorted by sin, we fall into despair, ignorance, and all other sins. The origin of pride is the greatness of humanity received as the image of God. However, this divine greatness within us can turn from divine grace into a deadly sin leading to the destruction of both soul and body. We are great by the grace of God, but we transform this greatness into a personal attribute, ability, and special status, separating it from its true source, which is God. Even adultery is originally a desire for union with another, but instead of the spiritual union that precedes physical union, we turn to physical union without a bond of love or true communion, making the union adulterous. Even murder is originally a desire for giving and generosity, but instead of giving our lives and offering ourselves, we—out of fear and hatred—strip others of life so that we may live. #HumanNature #DependenceOnGod #Pride #Sin #ImageOfGod #Community

🌟 The Incarnation of the Son of God and Human Being With the coming of Christ, God became an alternative to the world, and accepting our existence, choosing our life and our destiny became a call to renew man so that freedom replaces the determinism of existence, and the choice of being replaces the irrationality of rejecting existence. Christ brought this gift, affirming that the unique miracle can encompass human being, and affirming God's fatherhood of man and the necessity of a conscious return to God as Father and as the source of human life, for this recreates man and ushers him into the divine realm of freedom, and true union with God, the original source of the will to exist and to remain. So we must ask: How did this unique miracle address the reality of human being? Christ was born of a woman, which radically means He is human, but He came by His will to be born, transforming that unconscious human birth into a conscious birth to the truth of man receiving his life as a divine gift. And He expressed the truth of His self-awareness, as a child not yet twelve, by saying: "I must be about My Father's business" (Luke 2:49). Hence, the truth of God's fatherhood entered human being, for God is the Father as a hypostasis, and He is also the Father from whom we received our human being. Christ was born so that we might be born of God, and so that we may have a consciousness and a being that belongs directly to the Creator; so that human being may be renewed and irrationality may disappear from human nature. We are born anew to accept and be conscious of our being, and we find this affirmed truth resting on the foundation of the incarnation of the Son of God, and from here, self-awareness becomes a truth affirmed by the supreme miracle. #Incarnation #HumanNature #GodTheFather #Consciousness #NewCreation #ChristianAnthropology

Q: Does the soul have a form? 👻 A: The soul indeed has an image and a form, just as an angel has an image and a form, and as angels possess their distinct images and forms. Similarly, while the outer physical human has a specific appearance, the inner human (the soul) also has an image resembling that of an angel, with a form that corresponds to and mirrors the outer form. #Soul #Spirituality #Angels #HumanNature #InnerSelf #Theology #Philosophy #SpiritualForm #DivineImage #SoulAndBody