ΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Who
will see God in the second coming of Christ? As light or as fire!
One
thing is for sure: In His Second Coming, all of us will see
(experience) God, both the saved and those condemned to hell. The
difference will be in how we are going to see Him. In case we have
our eyes opened (a purified nous), we will see God as ultra-sweet
Light. However, if we have our spiritual eyes closed, meaning we
still have a darkened nous, due to our sinful passions (because we
did not manage to open our spiritual eyes through repentance, while
we were living here on earth), we will
see Him, but as “devouring fire”, a burning fire that eats up
everything!
At
this point, we would have to stress a very important fact:
The
opening of the eyes of our soul is a task that should be completed
during this temporary life on earth. Only in this life can it be
achieved, not in the other, the eternal … and it has to be done by
us, always in cooperation with the Devine Grace.
f. Savvas Agioreitis
To be continued...
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