Exclusively about love, only about forgiveness does Christ preach. Whence comes this hatred, which gathers around Him and leads Him – helplessly, inexorably – to the cross? At the center of the Gospel is this horror of betrayal, terrible malice, and sweat falling to the ground like blood. The man who, in the agony of death, “began to be deeply distressed and troubled,” who cries out from the cross: “My God! My God! Why have You forsaken Me?” is betrayed out of fear of the crowd by Pilate, mocked, beaten, spat upon by Roman soldiers, mocked by the Pharisees, and the crowd shouts: crucify Him, crucify Him! This is the image of this world in the Gospel. It is enough to think for a moment to see that all this has always been, always is, that in the world, perdition reigns and governs life. And if we do not return (with total repentance) precisely to this feeling, if we do not start with it, there will be no sense left in Christianity, and it will essentially have nothing to say to the people of this age. Therefore, only by revealing the depth and horror of perdition (this is the first component of proclamation), does Christianity reveal itself, or rather, Christ, His teaching, and His call to repentance (to follow Him, to unite with Him in marital, Eucharistic, Parish life) as salvation. Salvation not from something – this or that, but salvation of life itself, so hopelessly torn from its own meaning, from God, from Light, from Heaven, from Truth, from Freedom, from Love, from Eternity, and which in this rupture has become a terrible and stinking (putrid) crowding of people, equally doomed to meaningless perdition. This is what the Church (Christians) professes when it proclaims its faith-knowledge in the Symbol of Faith with simple and eternal words: “For us, people, and for our salvation.” For us: for me, for you, for each individually and all together; for our salvation. Each time we utter this profession, we proclaim our knowledge of perdition.
Many (heretics of various stripes and denominations) want to remove, destroy this connection: salvation from perdition; salvation because of perdition. Many (heretics, children of the deceitful, servants of the antichrist) want to “disarm” Christianity, to make it an appendage to life, a household custom, an archaic (ancient), a good custom-tradition (for example, we can cite heretics (UOC KP), whose heresy and spirit of the antichrist-satan we expose in this book-prophecy). But just as it is impossible to remove the cross and crucifixion from the Gospel, it will not be possible for heretics (servants of the antichrist) to remove this relationship of perdition and salvation from Christianity; of course, provided that in people seeking Happiness-Truth there remains at least a drop of truthfulness and sincerity (although the forecasts regarding the state of humanity are very sad on the horizon of history (today! Whoever has ears to hear, let him understand and recognize the spirit of the time and its signs and fruits!): people will become flesh, and the Son of God will not find faith in them)! Every true encounter with Christ first reveals to me the darkness and perdition’s meaninglessness (meaninglessness) of my life; it is a judgment over me: when in the light of the Ideal of Man, the Norm, the Beauty, I see who I am: a monstrosity and a nothingness! I see Christ, and because I see Him, I realize that the life I live is not the real, not the True life, but a life soaked in perdition, doomed to perdition. And my faith in Him, in Christ, begins with the fact that in some mysterious and incomprehensible, yet self-evident way for me, I realize that only He, Christ, can save me, that only He, only in Him, is my salvation, and the salvation of others, and of all, and of everything (I enter into the state of faith-trust: “we entrust ourselves and one another, and all our life to Christ our God”).
Now let’s pause for a moment from the word about Salvation, Happiness, and explain why we started talking about these obvious things. You must understand that everything we proclaim in this (III) part of the Introduction to the Godliness of the Orthodox Church is an exposure of the heresy of the UOC KP (as a synagogue of Satan) and the heretics-Satanists (= heretics of the UOC KP), the context of every word is a polemic with heretics and the exposure of heresies! After we testified that the UOC KP is a synagogue of Satan (a gathering of Satanists), the heresy of the antichrist, some theologians (scholastic empty-talkers) from this gathering, having nothing to counter us with (except: it was not presented well, it was not reported correctly about the Fire – we talked about this madness above), instead of repentance and renunciation of heresy and condemnation of heretics (there can be no compromise with heresy!), began to justify their passivity (and non-interference in the conflict!?) and silence about heresy and further hypocrisy before the heretics-Satanists, releasing another blasphemy-heresy (those who seemed to be ours, said that we were right, turned out to be even worse heretics than those we exposed): they say, there are no heresies now (interesting: for what did confessors, martyrs shed their blood?!), this is all an illusion, everything is fine, everything was already accomplished two thousand years ago, everything is already saved, there is no more suffering, pain – this is all an illusion… And all this deceit (we say: members of the synod of the UOC KP, reviewers, and all who say amen to their heretical blasphemy are heretics, and the ideology of the UOC KP is heresy! These deceitful ones say: everything was said correctly! But heresy does not exist!? We said about heresy, so how can it not exist if you say we are right?! Such is the deceit of the heretics of the UOC KP) heretics say so that they are not persecuted for Christ-Truth!