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1 Fwd | Yourself as our Lord and our God. Come and abide with us, 2 Fwd1991| is for every creature of God. You will find in it all 3 Fwd1991| on earth and to eternity. God be with you.~Jesus Christ 4 Intro | from Heaven. The voice of God. But does God speak to us 5 Intro | The voice of God. But does God speak to us and is He present 6 Intro | lessons? Do we actually hear God's own voice? Without any 7 Intro | voice? Without any doubt God is present, since He is 8 Intro | During catechetical lessons God speaks to us through the 9 Intro | Christians should worship God in order to be worthy of 10 Intro | Christian religion. Pray that God will enlighten me to write 11 1 | communication of man with God. By its very nature, the 12 1 | spirit of man turns towards God, Who is his origin and his 13 1 | final goal. Between man and God there exists a strong mystical 14 1 | his father or his mother. God loves man constantly, always 15 1 | his natural state seeks God's love and offers to Him 16 1 | obedience. Man wants to do God's will.~This is the natural 17 1 | this relationship of man to God weakened. Now a special 18 1 | needed from the side of God. And so religion, which 19 1 | cultivation -- cultivation by God, because it is God Who knows 20 1 | cultivation by God, because it is God Who knows how to and is 21 1 | and becomes an obstacle to God's work.~Man must have good 22 1 | the actions and gifts of God. When man puts himself in 23 1 | tendency of man to love God and to accept His gifts 24 1 | from man and go towards God. The Christian religion 25 1 | Christian religion begins from God and descends to man. In 26 1 | religions man tries to find God. In Christianity, God becomes 27 1 | find God. In Christianity, God becomes God-man and reveals 28 1 | man. Since no one can know God as well as God knows Himself, 29 1 | can know God as well as God knows Himself, when God 30 1 | God knows Himself, when God reveals Himself we have 31 1 | to accept the truth that God offers us.~But even in this 32 1 | a Holy Temple or without God."~It is possible, however, 33 1 | saw neither churches nor God. And whoever said that was 34 1 | and revealed Yourself as God and Who revealed Your Father 35 2 | religions is belief in one God; and some examples of this 36 2 | belief that the universe is God and that within the universe 37 2 | believe in one, personal God. Sometimes certain people 38 2 | these three persons are one God. A Trinitarian God. We shall 39 2 | are one God. A Trinitarian God. We shall explain this later, 40 2 | should bear in mind that our God is One, but in three Persons.~ 41 2 | It was revealed to man by God. Revealed and taught to 42 2 | Christ, Who was Perfect God, but became perfect man.~ 43 2 | man from the beginning. God acted pedagogically, the 44 2 | truth.~Judaism was given by God. It was not, nor is, a perfect 45 2 | various writers inspired by God. All of these books were 46 2 | is the covenant between God and the Hebrews, the covenant 47 2 | the new covenant between God and mankind that was made 48 3 | God Exists ~People often ask 49 3 | People often ask whether God exists. And if He does, 50 3 | question that can be asked.~God certainly exists. This is 51 3 | things: First, faith in God is a universal phenomenon 52 3 | earth, we find his faith in God. The most primitive men 53 3 | most civilized believe in God. And it is also true that 54 3 | believed or do believe in God as a star, or an animal, 55 3 | men of all ages believe in God. Yet it should be pointed 56 3 | that they do not believe in God. This is especially so in 57 3 | attempt to uproot faith in God. To some extent they have 58 3 | destroying faith in the true God, they lead people to superstition, 59 3 | fortune telling. But faith in God is so deeply rooted and 60 3 | believe in the existence of God. We marvel at the universe 61 3 | that made all things is God."~Thirdly, there is another 62 3 | proof of the existence of God. That is, the voice of our 63 3 | within us? Who else but God?~Fourthly, whether we like 64 3 | it leads us to believe in God and in an other-worldly 65 3 | powerfully that there is a God, that it would be difficult 66 3 | proof of the existence of God is our faith. The person 67 3 | faith is tangible proof of God. He does not require any 68 3 | experiences the existence of God. He is within God and God 69 3 | existence of God. He is within God and God resides within him. 70 3 | God. He is within God and God resides within him. If the 71 3 | would also need proof of God's existence. But who doubts 72 3 | can doubt the existence of God? No one. But in order to 73 3 | they shall have sight of God." Blessed and happy are 74 3 | heart, for they shall see God.~Most holy and All-knowing 75 3 | Most holy and All-knowing God, You know our souls and 76 3 | not misunderstand us, my God. Do not turn against even 77 4 | What God Is ~There is no definition 78 4 | There is no definition of God. That which is defined, 79 4 | can we define and limit God? If we could do this, God 80 4 | God? If we could do this, God would not be God, but, instead, 81 4 | do this, God would not be God, but, instead, we would 82 4 | least something superior to God.~Reading Holy Scripture, 83 4 | being in error, say that God is the highest, infinite, 84 4 | John the Evangelist says: "God is Spirit." As Spirit, which 85 4 | Spirit." As Spirit, which God is, He does not require 86 4 | changes or alterations. Since God has all of these qualities, 87 4 | meaning for us; but for God, Who is eternal, they have 88 4 | is in the present to Him. God is All-wise. And He acts 89 4 | Evangelist tells us that God is Love. Since He is complete 90 4 | love, justice, and mercy. God is self-sufficient. He has 91 4 | good quality is found in God and is directed by God with 92 4 | in God and is directed by God with perfect selflessness 93 4 | toward His creatures. All of God's actions are for man's 94 4 | the good of His creatures. God's perfection and the fact 95 4 | us to the conclusion that God is One. One directing mind 96 4 | that many gods exist, one god for heaven, another god 97 4 | god for heaven, another god for the earth, another god 98 4 | god for the earth, another god for the sea, another god 99 4 | god for the sea, another god for Hades, and so forth. 100 4 | can stand beside the One God.~Some will ask how can you 101 4 | say that we believe in one God when you speak of Father, 102 4 | Mary) have in divinity? Is God the Father? Is God the Son? 103 4 | divinity? Is God the Father? Is God the Son? Is God the Holy 104 4 | Father? Is God the Son? Is God the Holy Spirit? If so, 105 4 | that the Father is really God. And the Son is God. and 106 4 | really God. And the Son is God. and the Holy Spirit is 107 4 | and the Holy Spirit is God. There are not, however, 108 4 | There is one trinitarian God. In another section, we 109 4 | as we said previously, God is infinite and the human 110 4 | influence upon her Son and her God, and our God, Jesus Christ. 111 4 | Son and her God, and our God, Jesus Christ. But we shall 112 4 | Only True, Trinitarian God, All-holy, All-mighty, All-wise, 113 5 | Trinity~We believe in one God. This God is trinitarian. 114 5 | believe in one God. This God is trinitarian. That is 115 5 | trinitarian. That is to say, God includes three persons: 116 5 | persons, how can He be one God? This is the greatest mystery 117 5 | talking to himself: "One God, but three Persons. Three 118 5 | not three Gods but one God. What does it mean? How 119 5 | the Infinite Trinitarian God be contained in your mind?" 120 5 | lesson. He reverently thanked God, Who taught him in such 121 5 | reasoning. Whoever believes in God lives the mystery of the 122 5 | not leave any doubt that God is One, but trinitarian. 123 5 | emphasis falls mostly on God as one. Moses shouted aloud 124 5 | O Israel! The Lord our God is One" (Deuteronomy, 6: 125 5 | are many verses in which God is presented as being comprised 126 5 | creation of man we read, "And God said, Let Us make man in 127 5 | Babel not for the glory of God but for their own glory, 128 5 | bring them to their senses, God decided to "confuse their 129 5 | confuse their tongues." And God said, "Let Us go down and 130 5 | the Old Testament where God speaks in the plural. But 131 5 | fly about the throne of God and offer praises to Him, 132 5 | Theophany (the appearance of God). And after His Resurrection 133 5 | Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the 134 5 | not leave any doubt that God is trinitarian. We cannot 135 5 | We accept the truth of God and we understand it and 136 5 | Thrice Holy One, Trinitarian God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, 137 6 | God the Father~We all know that 138 6 | Father~We all know that God is called Father. It will 139 6 | the Holy Scriptures where God is called Father.~In the 140 6 | Paul says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 141 6 | and in this way He calls God Father. Again we find in 142 6 | Gospel of St. John, "For God so loved the world, that 143 6 | Holy Scriptures that call God the Father, those that we 144 6 | must clarify something. God is called Father in two 145 6 | and the doctrinal sense. God is the Father of all of 146 6 | angels, too, are children of God "by grace."~This does not 147 6 | Christ. He is not the Son of God "by grace;" He is the Son 148 6 | grace;" He is the Son of God "by nature." He is the Son 149 6 | nature." He is the Son of God by His nature and substance 150 6 | when Christ speaks about God as Father, He makes this 151 6 | and your Father and to my God and to your God.»" He did 152 6 | and to my God and to your God.»" He did not say, I am 153 6 | was because Jesus called God His Father in a distinct 154 6 | kill Him because He called God His own Father and made 155 6 | and made Himself equal to God. The Pharisees understood 156 6 | hear about the voice of God that was heard at Epiphany 157 6 | distinguishing Him from others, God called Jesus Christ "His 158 6 | assert that they can call God Mother. This has grown out 159 6 | religion. We cannot find God called "Mother" anywhere 160 7 | The Son Is God ~All Orthodox Christians 161 7 | to say, Jesus Christ, is God. With a profound comprehension 162 7 | the Only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father 163 7 | ages. Light of light, true God from true God, begotten, 164 7 | light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one 165 7 | Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." In 166 7 | with God and the Word was God." In this way he calls the 167 7 | the Son and the Word of God, God. He further informs 168 7 | Son and the Word of God, God. He further informs us that 169 7 | that the Son and Word of God existed from the Beginning, 170 7 | and is inseparable from God the Father. And He is Perfectly 171 7 | Father. And He is Perfectly God. St. Paul complements this 172 7 | mystery of godliness -- God appeared in the flesh." 173 7 | Paul calls Christ Lord and God, Great God, Blessed God. 174 7 | Christ Lord and God, Great God, Blessed God. But first 175 7 | God, Great God, Blessed God. But first St. Thomas, after 176 7 | Christ, "My Lord and my God."~In other places in Holy 177 7 | that the Son is Perfect God as is the Father. Christ 178 7 | to the Father and truly God. But these words of Christ 179 7 | perfect he may be, can be God. What we should keep in 180 7 | He did not cease to be God, to remain always "in the 181 7 | did He cease to be Perfect God. The real meaning of the 182 7 | servant; however, I remain God "in the bosom of the Father," 183 7 | good except One, that is God." Heretics ask how could 184 7 | the Son, Jesus Christ, be God since when the wealthy young 185 7 | not good, but that only God was good? Here we find again 186 7 | that the Perfect Good is God, and therefore you do not 187 7 | human in comparison with God, because that is how the 188 7 | one is good except One, God." He said this so that we 189 7 | might understand that He is God and the Son of God, equal 190 7 | He is God and the Son of God, equal to and as good as 191 7 | equal to and as good as God the Father." Consequently, 192 7 | Consequently, the Lord as God is unlimited Good, All-good, 193 7 | Christ, You were and are True God, God always "in the bosom 194 7 | You were and are True God, God always "in the bosom of 195 7 | ceasing to be the Perfect God. With all of the ways in 196 8 | The Holy Spirit Is God~~Our Church believes that 197 8 | that the Holy Spirit is God. He is the third Person 198 8 | that the Holy Spirit is God.~In the New Testament many 199 8 | There is no doubt that He is God. Saint Peter categorically 200 8 | calls the Holy Spirit, "God" (Acts, 5:4). And St. Paul 201 8 | worshipped and glorified? God. God alone. And so, since 202 8 | worshipped and glorified? God. God alone. And so, since the 203 8 | the Son, He is also True God.~Many opposed this Orthodox 204 8 | Spirit is not uncreated God, as is the Father and the 205 8 | beings; no created being is God, and so the Holy Spirit 206 8 | the Holy Spirit cannot be God. This arbitrary opinion 207 8 | by man out of hatred of God's power to save him. Even 208 8 | believe that the grace of God -- the Father, the Son, 209 8 | sanctifying and saving act of God. He creates within himself 210 8 | faith in the Trinitarian God, sincere repentance, a returning 211 9 | has been revealed to us by God is not true. It is precisely 212 9 | true. It is precisely as God has revealed it to us, because 213 9 | and Holy Spirit, One True God.~ 214 10 | teaches us, "I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Maker 215 10 | visible and invisible." God is the Creator of all of 216 10 | Tradition teach us that God created the world out of 217 10 | them and recognize that God did not make them out of 218 10 | them, and to recognize that God made them from what had 219 10 | were framed by the word of God so that things that are 220 10 | were made by the word of God out of things that had not 221 10 | Tradition assure us that God is "He Who created out of 222 10 | was made by the word of God alone. As we said above, 223 10 | Hebrews, "by the Word of God" (Hebrews, 11:3). We find 224 10 | Genesis, 1:3-6) we read, "And God said, Let there be light, 225 10 | was only by the word of God that everything was created.~ 226 10 | everything was created.~God created all of this world 227 10 | lengthy periods. After all, to God "a thousand years . . . 228 10 | Psalms, 90:4). Why does God call the periods of creation 229 10 | six days? We do not know. God could have created everything 230 10 | When and at what time did God create the world? We are 231 10 | in another section, that God is not subject to time. 232 10 | synchronous.~Why, however, did God create the world? Hadn't 233 10 | by Himself as Trinitarian God? Did He perhaps need the 234 10 | transportation. Is it possible that God had need of the world and 235 10 | believe something like that. God has no needs. Speaking to 236 10 | has no needs. Speaking to God, David says, "O my soul, 237 10 | Psalms, 16:2). Then why did God create the world? He created 238 10 | His glory, joy, and bliss. God is not selfish. He wants 239 10 | creation of the world is God's Love. The same God Who 240 10 | is God's Love. The same God Who is Perfect Love. The 241 10 | glory, and the bliss of God. Naturally, the creation 242 10 | the Power and the Glory of God. We can even say that this 243 10 | to say, the praising of God by His creatures. However, 244 10 | participation in the glory of God. The one who benefits from 245 10 | benefits from it is not God, but we ourselves.~Our Father 246 11 | known spiritual world that God has created. We do not know 247 11 | certainly not forget that God, too, belongs to the spiritual 248 11 | the Holy Scriptures say. "God is a Spirit and those that 249 11 | truth" (John, 4:24), but God is not part of creation. 250 11 | self-governed -- that serve God and protect mankind. They 251 11 | We infer this from what God said to Job. He said, "When 252 11 | are creatures created by God, and St. Paul also writes 253 11 | includes as creatures of God four of the nine ranks of 254 11 | task of angels is to serve God, to praise Him, and to glorify 255 11 | seraphim around the throne of God glorifying Him and singing, " 256 11 | men, angels bring to them God's messages. So the Holy 257 11 | the heavenly hot, praising God and saying, Glory to God 258 11 | God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth 259 11 | bring us, as messengers, God's messages. Each one of 260 11 | places at the same time. Only God is present everywhere. Angels 261 11 | everywhere. Angels are sent by God, in accordance with His 262 11 | Heaven, above the stars of God I will set my throne on 263 11 | will become the same as God." Many other angels followed 264 11 | We do not know how many. God punished them. From the 265 11 | another section, although God punished the man who disobeyed 266 11 | own to oppose the Will of God. Man himself also exercised 267 11 | serpent. Maybe that is why God gave him a second chance 268 11 | guilt. They cannot tempt God. Nor can they tempt the 269 11 | if people have faith in God, the demons cannot succeed 270 11 | succeed in their attempts. God does not permit this.~Some 271 11 | into the swine.~All Holy God, Who made the spiritual 272 12 | Book of Genesis, man was God's final creation. That does 273 12 | That does not mean that God does not continue to create. 274 12 | 5:17)." This means that God continues creating. When 275 12 | creating. When we say that God's final creation was man, 276 12 | man the final creation of God? Simply because man belongs 277 12 | Scriptures say about how God created man.~God created 278 12 | about how God created man.~God created all creatures with 279 12 | completely different method. God -- the Father, the Son, 280 12 | create man. "And the Lord God formed man from the dust 281 12 | Genesis, 2:7). We see that God used a different method 282 12 | within you that you have from God?" (I Corinthians, 6:19) 283 12 | sanctified by the Spirit of God that dwells within it. It 284 12 | forever with the soul near God. The two, body and the soul, 285 12 | Spirit, or the Spirit of God, as the Holy Spirit is often 286 12 | or spirit.~That is how God created man. In order for 287 12 | They began not to respect God. They decided to build the 288 12 | Babel. Not for the Glory of God, but for their own glory. 289 12 | that they could gaze upon God from there. Who knows? Perhaps 290 12 | mind to climb higher than God, or to tear God down. Like 291 12 | higher than God, or to tear God down. Like the nonsense 292 12 | that some say today, that God is dead. And so it was that 293 12 | dead. And so it was that God came down and confused their 294 12 | us in Acts. He says that God "created every nation of 295 12 | the earth" (Acts, 17:26).~God created man according to 296 13 | of Primitive Man ~First God created the human body, 297 13 | gave it life. But what did God arrange for the reproduction 298 13 | reproduction of man? Does God directly intervene and create 299 13 | at what exact moment does God intervene? At conception? 300 13 | Tradition. The fact that God made man His co-creator 301 13 | infant is an act of both God and the parents. And this 302 13 | the cooperation of both God and parents, is for the 303 13 | same as it is today. When God created man, He said. "Let 304 13 | man; as totally spirit: God is not related to a material 305 13 | closer to the Divine, to God. This movement toward holiness 306 13 | Bible tells us that when God created man, "the Lord God 307 13 | God created man, "the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, 308 13 | And again, "The Lord God took the man and put him 309 13 | and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, « 310 13 | knowledge of good and evil." God commanded man not to eat 311 13 | the other trees. Why did God do this? What exactly does " 312 13 | know. Nor do we know why God gave this command and the 313 13 | the punishment of death. God said "for in the day that 314 13 | as some ingenuously say. God blessed the reproduction 315 13 | rejected the commandment of God.~The Bible also speaks about 316 13 | it. From one phrase that God spoke after the fall of 317 13 | tree bestowed eternal life. God took care lest Adam too 318 14 | we have previously said, God gave Adam and Eve permission 319 14 | 16-17). In other words, God said to Adam and to Eve, " 320 14 | angel and had disobeyed God, becoming Satan, felt guilty 321 14 | Paradise in the company of God. So he put his evil plans 322 14 | me, Eve, is it true that God told you not to eat the 323 14 | said, "You shall not die. God knows that on the day that 324 14 | here that this is not true. God had decreed the sexual relationship 325 14 | It is the denunciation of God. If you will, it is the 326 14 | attempt of man to disenthrone God and to enthrone himself 327 14 | in His place, to become God in the place of God. It 328 14 | become God in the place of God. It is not merely that he 329 14 | imaginings, hoping to be equal to God." Hoping to be equal to 330 14 | Hoping to be equal to God, she lost her senses.~That 331 14 | the separation of man from God, the source of all goodness. 332 14 | made him want to hide from God. E.) Worst of all, original 333 15 | able to be saved because God gave him a second chance, 334 15 | fallen man was promised by God when He said to the devil 335 15 | the only-begotten Son of God, the seed (descendant) of 336 15 | seed (descendant) of woman.~God kept His promise. He did 337 15 | the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born 338 15 | the Only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before 339 15 | ages. Light of light, true God of true God, begotten not 340 15 | light, true God of true God, begotten not made, one 341 15 | love and continuous care of God for man. Even when he has 342 15 | has sinned and has fallen, God loves man. He tries to raise 343 15 | whether it was necessary for God to become man to save the 344 15 | humanity? Perhaps so, if God wanted it that way. But 345 15 | wanted it that way. But God decided differently. Who 346 15 | Who are we to question God on His decision? If we think 347 15 | think that we can question God, are we not putting ourselves 348 15 | a return to the house of God. It is a return to the arms 349 15 | a return to the arms of God from that separation which 350 15 | originally created man: God. This is why man had to 351 15 | are inseparable.~Triune God, with love as Your only 352 16 | When the time was ripe, God sent His Son to become man " 353 16 | and came down to earth as God and God-man. Archangel Gabriel 354 16 | While He remained perfect God, He became perfect man. 355 16 | might ask, How could a true God be born of a human mother? 356 16 | as a miracle. "Whenever God wishes, the order of nature 357 16 | virgin birth and the infinite God filling a woman's womb, 358 16 | a God-man. He is perfect God and perfect man. And at 359 16 | ascended singing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth 360 16 | with Herod. He, who hated God, guilefully pretended that 361 16 | Herod? Had he ceased being God? No. However, He was born 362 16 | otherwise? The infinite God could not be overwhelmed 363 16 | descended, man ascended. As God was incarnated, man was 364 16 | about mysteriously through God's love for man and His desire 365 16 | save him.~Son and Word of God, Who through Your love for 366 16 | protest, even though You were God and man, almighty. We express 367 16 | Heaven brought it before God the Father." You, O Lord, 368 16 | Bring him to the One Who is God and Father.~ 369 17 | history: the incarnation of God. God and man were united 370 17 | the incarnation of God. God and man were united in the 371 17 | other. Christ, the Son of God, is also the Son of Man -- 372 17 | the Son of Man -- perfect God and perfect Man. He is truly 373 17 | full sense of the word. As God, He is born of God the Father " 374 17 | word. As God, He is born of God the Father "before all ages." 375 17 | Incarnation of the Son and Word of God and His retaining both His 376 17 | to call Christ "Perfect God and perfect man, with a 377 17 | Theotokos], assuming flesh, God by nature and becoming man 378 17 | Incarnation of the Son and Word of God. It is very simple. With 379 17 | Grace. He was alienated from God. He was expelled from Paradise. 380 17 | restored, the Son and Word of God had to assume the whole 381 17 | Ascension You brought it before God and Father." This was the 382 17 | Incarnation of the Son of God. As St. Athanasios writes, " 383 17 | St. Athanasios writes, "God became man in order for 384 17 | has been torn down between God and Man and communication 385 17 | Incarnation of the Son of God does not seem to be arbitrary, 386 17 | truth that the Incarnated God has taught.~Incarnate Christ, 387 18 | or doubt, "My Lord and my God!" Christ is Lord and God. 388 18 | God!" Christ is Lord and God. St. John characteristically 389 18 | Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 390 18 | with God, and the Word was God." The Son and Word of God 391 18 | God." The Son and Word of God is truly God. We will make 392 18 | and Word of God is truly God. We will make only one more 393 18 | to St. Paul, who states, "God was revealed in the flesh" ( 394 18 | disciples, believes, "in one God, Father almighty, and in 395 18 | Christ Jesus, the Son of God, incarnate for our salvation." 396 18 | confirms that the Son of God is truly God. And he continues, " 397 18 | the Son of God is truly God. And he continues, "If man 398 18 | man had not been joined to God (i.e., united in Christ), 399 18 | alteration." He remains perfect God.~Let us now look a bit at 400 18 | He is the Son and Word of God made man. St. John clearly 401 18 | likewise the Son and Word of God assumed the same elements. 402 18 | although the Son and Word of God became Perfect Man, He became 403 18 | Although the Son and Word of God became man and is God-man, 404 18 | Mary is called Mother of God. She truly gave birth to 405 18 | She truly gave birth to God. How could this be? Only 406 18 | through a miracle. "Whenever God wills, He overthrows the 407 19 | mankind became guilty before God, and was condemned to eternal 408 19 | The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the 409 19 | in deed and word before God and all the people" (Luke, 410 19 | the Only-begotten Son of God, Who "died for our sins" ( 411 19 | the Only-begotten Son of God, Christ is truly a King 412 19 | resurrected as the All-Powerful God and the Lord of Life and 413 20 | Spirit~The Holy Spirit is God. He is equally God with 414 20 | Spirit is God. He is equally God with the Father and the 415 20 | and categorically called God, as follows: "Ananias, why 416 20 | have not lied to men but to God" (Acts, 5:3-4). What further 417 20 | the Holy Spirit is truly God?~It is demonstrated in many 418 20 | examples.~"The Spirit of God moved upon the waters" ( 419 20 | Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the communion 420 20 | Holy Spirit. He is truly God. He proceeds from the Father, 421 20 | power of the All Mighty God." Basil the Great well describes 422 20 | in essence." One triune God. Three persons, but one 423 20 | Three persons, but one God, all of one essence.~"The 424 20 | believe in Him, Who is true God, equal with the Son and 425 21 | sinned. He has disobeyed God. He has broken His commandment. 426 21 | He lived far removed from God. He had to be set free from 427 21 | and reconciled him with God.~For this purpose, however, 428 21 | must cooperate as well. God, of course,"desires all 429 21 | pursued by man himself. God respects the freedom of 430 21 | With the cooperation of God he accomplishes his salvation. 431 21 | and to accept the grace of God.~In future sections, we 432 21 | acquire it.~Most gracious God, for many years until the 433 22 | Grace is the good will of God that is made manifest and 434 22 | How can man be worthy of God's grace, since he disobeyed 435 22 | grace, since he disobeyed God, and left Him and departed 436 22 | Much more have the Grace of God and the free gift in the 437 22 | draws him" (John, 6:44). "God is at work in us, both to 438 22 | cannot enter the Kingdom of God" (John, 3:5). These scriptural 439 22 | and our return back to our God and Father.~Man has an absolute 440 22 | need of Divine Grace. And God grants it freely and richly, 441 22 | truth" (1 Timothy, 2:4), but God waits for man by his own 442 22 | which is freely offered by God without being imposed, and 443 22 | cannot enter the Kingdom of God" (John, 3: 5).~Following " 444 22 | man attains to being in God's "likeness."~Justification 445 22 | faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ"( 446 22 | they are fully united with God and "look upon the unspeakable 447 22 | alive.~Thrice holy, triune God, You created us in Your " 448 23 | man. It is the kingdom of God on earth. Christ Himself 449 23 | Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand" (Matthew, 4: 450 23 | we enter the kingdom of God and become members of the 451 23 | all are equal children of God and all have to be members 452 23 | discrimination. The commandment of God to His Disciples was: "Go 453 23 | Christ and in the Triune God, the true faith, the Orthodox 454 24 | sacraments are sent from God. Their beginning is found 455 25 | Baptism. It is sent from God. Christ Himself commanded 456 25 | unbaptized is a matter for God and He will judge. We cannot 457 25 | cannot know the will of God, nor can we become judges 458 25 | can we become judges of God. What happens, though, with 459 25 | he enters the Kingdom of God. He is saved. This creates 460 25 | has entered the Kingdom of God, because he is saved, does 461 25 | the individual because "God desires all men to be saved 462 25 | forefathers who disobeyed God, so too after his baptism 463 25 | baptism he may not follow God or do His will, but rather 464 25 | we entered the Kingdom of God through baptism, it is possible 465 25 | out from the Kingdom of God by the sins that we commit, 466 26 | the choice to follow God or to be deceived and follow 467 26 | choice to do the will of God or to do his own will. The 468 26 | when he says that "it is God who establishes us with 469 26 | In other words, it is God who anoints us and seals 470 26 | twelve.~Heavenly, triune God, You -- Who never wished 471 27 | the New Covenant between God and man. It is the testament 472 27 | Eucharist unites man with God. It deifies him. Since man 473 27 | him. Since man unites with God, he also unites with other 474 27 | justification, unity with God and with each other, spirituality, 475 27 | approach with the fear of God, faith, and with love." 476 27 | with reverence and faith in God, and with total love towards 477 27 | with total love towards God and man.~Holy Eucharist 478 27 | body and blood of Christ. God created, out of nothing, 479 27 | body and blood of Christ.~O God, how much amazement and 480 28 | that he can confess to God Himself, or to a saint, 481 28 | who does not believe that God can forgive and save.~Christ, 482 29 | sacrament is also sent from God. It was established by Christ 483 29 | to care for the church of God" (Acts 20:28).~All these 484 29 | himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was" (Hebrews 485 29 | 4). How is one called by God? First he receives an inner 486 29 | Secondly, he has the call from God which reveals itself through 487 29 | steward of the sacraments of God. He cannot perform any sacrament. 488 30 | matrimony is also established by God. As a matter of fact, its 489 30 | announced in the Old Testament. God created Adam and from the 490 30 | flesh"(Genesis 2:23-24). God blessed the first-created 491 30 | should separate those whom God has joined.~This sacrament 492 30 | into marriage acceptable by God is not the coming together, 493 30 | they have the blessing of God for the betrothed to live 494 30 | Creator of all, Triune God, You Who commanded that 495 31 | Unction is established by God. Historically, it is proven 496 31 | not always healed, because God may have another plan for 497 31 | sins comes through faith in God, sincere repentance, and 498 33 | the next sections.~Triune God, Who out of love created 499 34 | even so, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those 500 34 | sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ