Now, let’s say a few words about the marriage of a man and a woman – to determine one of the unknowns (X or Y) that we mentioned earlier. And let us not forget that the meaning of all our words (all the dishes of this verbal feast) is the happiness of everyone and everything!
Many people ask: why did God create the world? And when they don’t hear a specific answer, they leave disappointed. But there is no answer to this question because it is incorrect (like asking: how many grams are in a meter)! The one who asks “why?” tries to find the answer: what is the cause of this or that action-reaction; what (or who) is the motivation for certain actions, that is, wants to know the external motivation of actions. Since “outside” of God, who is Love and Freedom, there was nothing before the creation of the world (God creates out of absolute nothingness), the motivation for creating the world is hidden in the Mystery of Divine Love and Freedom! We can and should, being rational creatures, ask questions: why does everything exist? For what purpose? Where is everything heading? And the Church answers these questions in the Gospel: for Happiness, for Eternal Life, for deification, so that everything may be in God, and God may be in everything! Creation and we ourselves are given, but we know from the Lord’s revelation in the Holy Spirit who created us and everything (God is Love!), we know for what purpose (so that we may become gods by Grace) and the path to this goal (deification, Happiness), which God Love leads all creation by His Provident care.
We wrote such a lengthy note at the beginning to remind you of something, and most importantly, to say through the mouths of the fathers that for Salvation (at present – after the fall – it is unthinkable to speak of Happiness outside the context of Salvation!), for Happiness, it is necessary to WORK, and most importantly, to do it CORRECTLY, ORTHODOXLY (“to compete according to the law”); and also to encourage you, so that you can (at least in the flesh) feel that we are in the context of the patristic Spirit of Godliness. And for the sake of exposing heresies – because many heretics have now arisen (in these last days before the Fire flood) – the servants of the antichrist!
We talk about Happiness, but in this age, it is unthinkable to talk about Happiness outside the context of Salvation. Therefore, let’s say a few words about the term “salvation” itself. Let’s note that we are talking about a concept that every “Christian” knows, with which he has become so accustomed that it has ceased to sound for him in all the fullness of its meaning. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize with all our strength that Christianity is the Mystery of Salvation! And this means not just “improving” life, helping with life’s difficulties, revealing abstract norms and principles of behavior, but actual salvation. Salvation implies perdition. It is not about comfort and comforting words that a person drowning or whose house is engulfed in flames, or someone falling into an abyss prays for and begs for salvation. By the way, both the feeling of perdition and the experience of Christianity as salvation have somehow evaporated over many centuries of Christianity, and although today “Christians” (baptized pagans, unenlightened ignoramuses) traditionally repeat the words “Savior,” “salvation,” and the prayer “save us,” they internally, subconsciously experience them differently, not as the early Christians did.
In Christianity itself, there has been a substitution of words, or rather, not words – the words remain the same in form – but the meaning of words, their spirit, their resonance. This substitution occurred because we have stopped feeling ourselves as creatures truly perishing, creatures whose lives inexorably strive towards meaningless decay, consumed by evil, emptiness (meaninglessness), purposelessness, the horror of dying and death, the animal struggle for existence, the terrible lust for power, the war of all against all, deceit, and cunning, which poison the very sources of life, the grayness, and doom of all to perdition (to death) – that is, everything that modern so-called “civilization” tries, and unfortunately successfully, to drown out and hide the catastrophic reality of this age, god-fighting and god-killing. Modern man has learned to seem to ignore all this because otherwise, it becomes too scary to live. Modern man (whom heretics-satanists have convinced that “we have the truth; God is with us; we will win,” “we are Christians,” “everything is fine”) has learned to drown it out with the vanity of everyday life (“the worries of this age, wealth, and life’s pleasures choke the prophetic word (the call to repentance)”).
No, it is not by chance that the loud music, which drowns out everything, is getting louder, the pace of life is accelerating, the amount of news is rapidly increasing, and people of this age are being dulled day by day. Today’s humanity is afraid to stop, afraid to think, afraid to be alone with itself and see perdition, fear, hatred, evil as the very life it is doomed to. Such feelings, a way (an image) of life, are depicted on the Gospel icons. Christ comes to people who “sit in darkness” and “the shadow of death.” This is the first definition of human fate in the Gospel. The joy of the Christmas night is immediately overshadowed. Herod wants to kill the Child and for this, he kills thousands of children, and thus, the evangelist writes, “a voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”