Hieromonk Damascene teaches: “With Christ’s death and His Resurrection, all the consequences of the Fall are overcome: both spiritual death (the loss of the Grace of God) and physical death. What we sing in the Paschal hymn we mean quite literally: “Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down death by death.””
Hieromonk Damascene, Abbot of the St. Herman Monastery in Platina, CA, and spiritual son of Fr. Seraphim Rose, captures in this talk the essence of what Christ did for man on the cross. He examines Christ’s defeat of sin and death and helps us understand more clearly the mystery of redemption. He draws frequently upon the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers, especially St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Symeon the New Theologian, and Vladimir Lossky.
This talk was given at the Annual Lenten Clergy Confession of the New Gracanica Metropolitanate and the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Jackson, California, March 4/17, 2004.
Read the text here: http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/christcross.aspx
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Why do very few people know or want to know the orthodox faith I myself am a baptist but are slowing finding that the orthodox church is the true church, and I look on youtube and see loads of Protestant and catholic videos but not as much orthodox content? I mean it's there but not nearly as many videos and with much smaller views when it comes to orthodox content as opposed to the others? Why is that? I think this viewpoint is what the world needs more of right now! God bless you all!!!
If one had to look at the fossils of the 1st man then facts would point out that we evolved rather than created. We cannot mix up actual happenings of evolution with the story portrayed in the Old Testament. I know science is right but I don’t believe this makes me an atheist. To the contrary science indicates that life is a miracle even more so than the Bible. I am a Christian but I am also a realist. I do believe that we are eternal in Jesus Christ and I chose to allow salvation by choosing to believe in the Holy Trinity and all the Holy Sacraments. Unfortunately I do prefer the version of Jesus Christ’s creation and not the Old Testament. The “our Father” spell out what we need to know.
We have one almighty Father who lives in a heavenly state of being ,we shall only worship God the father any God in his entirety is to be worshipped alone. We will ask for both the spiritual wisdom of God and nourishment from God. Something very interesting as if to take on a strange twist away from God , the prayer gives us a command to LOVE and FORGIVE our fellow man as we expect God to forgive us. We then ask God to protect us from evil.Jesus Christ came to fulfil the Old Testament by by allowing salvation and therefore the Holy Spirit to entire our being which can be viewed as God’s Holy Spirit within us. Believe 1st in the actual words of Jesus Christ before the story of Adam and Eve. There is One God which consist of 3 beings namely the Son and Holy Spirit. When you want to know someone then look beyond words and see the works of that person. Jesus Christ died for us so that we may have eternal life so he forgave, healed, but most of all said your faith has made you well. At the core of salvation is our choice of being reborn. Their is no salvation unless we choose God and choose to forgive. The path to God is Jesus Christ and the word was made flesh . Jesus Christ is the WORD ,THE TRUTH and THE LIFE. Glory be To THE FATHER,SON and HOLY SPIRIT. God is Truth,Jesus is the Word and the Holy Spirit within us is God within us because we chose to be born again. I don’t understand the fall of man but I full understand the salvation of man. Perhaps the fall of man can be ascribed to the 2 thieves crucified with Jesus . The one thief said “if you are the Son of God save yourself “ and the other simply saw his evil was and realised that Jesus is truly the son of God.