Chapter Two: God and Man
(In His limitless love, God made Himself as we are, in order to make us as He is)... Saint Irenaeus (he died in the year […]
Creation in Christ
We read in the message on the Second Sunday of Lent: “You, O Lord, in the beginning laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens. They are the work of your hands, and they are passing away.”
God the Creator
“I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen.” With this declaration begins the Constitution of Faith
Christian marriage
عجيب كيف يتكلّم راهب عن الزواج وهو لم يختبره؟ لكنه ليس بالعجب الكبير إذ إن أفضل كتاب عن البتولية ألّفه
When was this hypostasis called Christ?
It is not, as some falsely claim, that the mind was united with God the Word before the incarnation of the Virgin, and was then called Christ. Then
Picture and example
Introduction: Man is a small world “He is the place where visible and invisible creatures, material and immaterial creatures, come together.”[1] This is how he defines
Orthodox theology and science
There are clear and obvious boundaries between theology and science. Theology, according to the Greek source of the word, is concerned with God: what God is and how
What is serious sin?
“And the Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat.
Creation of man
The purpose of the creation of man: And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over the livestock and all things.”
The origin of creation
There are two narratives in the Bible that deal with the story of the creation of the world. The recording of the first account dates back to the sixth century before Christ (Genesis 1:
Man is the image of God
It is stated in the opening of the Book of Genesis that God made man in his image and likeness, and made him dominant over all other creatures, including fish and birds.
The Bible: a verbal icon
We have previously addressed the issue of the relationship between event (fact) and truth (truth) in the biblical stories about Jesus. I have tried to show that