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LIFE, THE GIFT OF GOD

Author(s): Ioan Selejan
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: life; gift; God; Christ

Summary/Abstract: Life is the gift offered to man by God, upon creation, and God is the origin of life. Life is a river that springs from God. So far, no one was able to quantify the value of human life. The measuring unit for life is the love of God. Thee who feeds on love shall not parish. Life itself has only God. The Son of God, having become, by embodiment, the Son of Man, has life in Itself, for He is „Life” (John. 14, 6), They are the Giver of Life and the „Beginner of Life” (Facts 3, 15). Christ gives life by raising those that had died from the dead: Jairus’ daughter, the son of the widow from Nain and Lazarus. The earthly life of man, lived through Christ, is nothing more than the preparation and beginning of the afterlife. Physical death is merely a passage from the earthly life to the afterlife. Life may not be killed, only sometimes restricted. People die, even children die, but life does not die.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2017
  • Issue No: 07-09
  • Page Range: 5-8
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian