VIDEO: Paradise and Hell According to the Orthodox Church (1/3)

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1. Except angels and demons aren't human.

2. Wait, so from what I understood, this will be very basic. There's no difference between heaven and hell, but it's just the way people experience them. If you don't accept the love of God and stay angry at everything that happened to you the afterlife will feel like hell, but if you strive to be like God you'll experience it like heaven. If someone would mind correcting me if I'm wrong that'd be great!

3. Gouse palms. Philautia/Philaphtia/Holistic Egoism is a so heavy sin. Just think: in which thought does the ego hides? The answer is: in most of our thoughts, therefore in our hearts…

4. If you read this, please answer me:

   I am an Orthodox Christian, and I have been baptized a month ago. It changed my life. I suffered from all kinds of anxieties. After I got baptized and I studied more and more about my faith, all of these anxieties were vanished. I’m thanking the Lord every day for this. The Lord wants to lead me to the good way and so do I. God gave me a free will, I choose good over bad. I am aware that there is a lot of evil in this world and I am grateful that the Lord showed Jesus Christ to me so I can be a part of the good side. So many people around me cuss, use the name of God in vain, use drugs, drinks, get wasted, have tattoos, listen to bad music, has idols (american celebrity musicians or movie stars). I know this is bad, therefore I refuse to follow the mass.

   I can feel the Holy Spirit in me through the day, but also sometimes when I pray, when I go to church, when I listen to Orthodox hymns, when I am aware of how much beauty God created on Earth. The Holy Spirit is encouraging me to keep obeying Jesus Christ and following his way and is warning me not to sin. I try not to cuss, lie, watch porn, listen to bad music, watch wrong tv channels, have lust for things, though it can be very difficult. (I never ever did drugs, didn’t get drunk, never smoked anything, even before I was baptized, when I was a kid I always hated it when someone was using God’s name in vain, even though I very rarely did it myself.)

   Before the baptism I sinned a lot, sometimes so much that I wasn’t even aware of it. I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my saviour, I am willing to change my life for Him to obey Him. I want to obey His rules.

   But I am also very scared. I don’t want to mess up. I gave lots of things up, such as video games, lust for sex (I am still virgin, but of course I have committed sexual sins), other kinds of lusts, and other stuff that contains worldly pleasure. Then sometimes I think, this whole decision of resisting worldly pleasure, what if all this sorrow was for nothing? That I could have lived a sinful live and the outcome would be just the same? Then I start to think very sceptical and I begin to think sometimes that what if there is no God? Then I immediately begin to shake my head. Of course to think this is ridiculous, God is real and He is with us. Continuously my mind is spinning with these thoughts.

   I don’t want to go to hell. This is a very very very scary thought for me. I don’t want to sin. What if I will sin without conscience or even with conscience? What if I get exhausted of living “the good way of life” and I fall back to the wrong path? I do absolutely not want this to happen. I am just scared. I love God and the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart, but of course I do also fear Him, since he has the decision to send you to Heaven or hell. Please help me, what should I do?

5. As a Catholic, one thing about the Church that has always bothered me is the teaching of hell. It seems so contradictory to how God is omnipresent, not to mention that God would allow for such a horrid place. I've been sort of disillusioned with Catholicism lately, and have been looking into Orthodoxy. I find the Divine Liturgy to be much more beautiful and reverent then the Novus Ordo. Correct me I'm wrong, but do Orthodox Christians believe that Heaven and Hell are the same thing, just seen differently based on the person's soul?

6. Hello, it is my belief that the teachings of John romanidies are heretical. His views of heaven and hell in particular are contrary to the holy Bible and the church fathers.

7. Can you help me understand what Hades is?

8. So families will be reunited in heaven…. and hell too?

9. What is the chant/song that is playing?

10. Do u guys believe in purgatory ? Personally I don't .

11. The song is the Cherubim hymn performes by the Bulgarian Orthodox Church

12. I still dont think we have free will.Yeah I mean it could be a hell if we wanted to sin but the capacity to sin is not available after the Second Coming.But why would God show me His uncreated light when I was denying it for my whole life?Isnt he forcing me into salvation for him and hell for me?So again its either love God or Hate God which leads to hell or Serve God which has no love in it so again hell.

13. https://youtu.be/xm_N-u0fj6w

14. what about the verse "the wages of sin is death" Romans 6.23? I thought to choose God is life eternal and to choose sin is the absence of life, which is death.

15. Hi, i couldnt find the next parts of the video. Where are they?

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