P. S. Let’s repeat it once more (maybe this simple way will be understood and remembered). Who killed? The hand pulled the trigger, so judge the hand, what’s the liver, legs, head got to do with it? The head gave the command (blessed) to shoot (intentional murder), but the hand killed (executed the blessing)! So judge the hand!? In the body, although the hand shot, the whole body acted, all the organs served the act of murder (if they are organs of one body!!!). That’s why the killer is judged (the whole body, the whole person), not some separate organ! If one organ (member) of the body sins, the whole body becomes sinful, the whole body bears the “punishment” for the sin (one member suffers – the whole body suffers), the responsibility falls on all members of the body. Is the church a body or not?! If it is a body (as Christians preach, pointing to their faith, i.e., the experience of knowing in the Eucharist – the Body of Christ – the bodily-personal (hypostatic) unity-catholicity of the Holy Trinity), this is what Spirit-bearers (anointed by the Holy Spirit, i.e., Christians) testify about, then why can’t some members kill (shouldn’t, it’s forbidden for them – they say: a grave sin), but others, who are “higher” (“more honorable”) than them (because they serve them (although in the body the service is mutual – each in the Body of the Church serves other members of the Body with the gift given to him by the Holy Spirit)), are allowed, it’s not a sin for them!? Although, whoever killed – all members of the body become murderers, because the one who blessed the killing is the same (incomparably greater, bears greater responsibility: “…greater sin is on the one who handed Me over to you…”) the murderer, as well as the one, who became the last link of the crime. Therefore, one member sins – the whole body sins (the hand killed, but the whole body – the person, the name – is called the murderer). In Adam, all sinned, the responsibility (consequences of sin) for the sin fell on everyone, on all members of the body of Man (humanity). Christ is the New Adam, the head of the New Body (the Church), born in Him by the Holy Spirit (Christians) – the new humanity, the holy people, the royal priesthood. The descendants of the New Adam (Christ) in the baptism of the Holy Spirit died to sin, so they do not sin (and imperfections and mistakes in the realization of God’s will the Lord washes away with His Precious Life-giving Blood). Therefore, it is said to Christians by the Holy Spirit that tempters (those who consciously sin and do not repent) should be excommunicated from the Church (that is, from the Eucharist). (For example, see Matt. 18:8-9 – the Eucharistic context here is obvious). Therefore, murderers are excommunicated from the Eucharist (stating the fact of spiritual death, until the dead member is resurrected from the dead (i.e., restores the marital (Bodily, Eucharistic) bonds with Christ) through the labors of repentance, of course, not without the prayers and care of the Church and the grace of the Holy Spirit). Thus, by excommunicating murderers (and those who sin unto death) from the church, they thereby showed that by killing (gravely sinning), the person was not in the Church (not led by the Holy Spirit), but outside the Church (not a Christian, but a pagan). That is, at the moment of murder (or sin unto death), they were already dead (outside the body), and the sin itself is only a symptom of being in death, outside the Church (“let the dead bury their own dead”). Therefore, if the church does not excommunicate a murderer (one who blasphemes the Holy Spirit) from the Eucharist, then it acknowledges such a criminal as its member, and as a result, it becomes a murderer, sinful (and the Church is Holy and Catholic, all members of the Church are holy and are in catholic, hypostatic bonds of communion with one another). Hence, such a church is not the Church, but the synagogue of Satan, and its members (faithful) are not Christians!!! Excommunication from the Eucharist (anathema) is not a punishment (God does not punish anyone, but Loves. The Church is the organism, the body of the Love of the Holy Spirit – it Loves, and therefore every action of the Church is a desire for good and doing everything that helps the being loved to attain Happiness (the Kingdom of God = the Holy Spirit). By excommunicating a sinner (one who sins unto death) from communion with the parish (that is, from the Eucharist), the Church calls the person to repentance, showing thereby that they are not in the Church (not in the Holy Spirit). Therefore, let the person not deceive themselves, thinking that they are a Christian (not thinking that they are something, when in reality they are nothing, and when they are being prepared for judgment (if they do not repent) – “I do not know you”), but prepare for baptism into the Church, that is, to enter into a marital relationship with Christ (His body members), the testimony of which is the Holy Spirit, like an engagement ring given to the bride (the one being baptized) by Christ. If there was no wedding (baptism by the Holy Spirit; acceptance of the earnest of the Holy Spirit), then what kind of marriage (Eucharistic life in the parish) can we talk about – there can be no talk of any Christianity!!! Therefore, when a person sins (unto death) (the one who is born of God by the Holy Spirit, who is led (taught) by the Holy Spirit, does not sin and cannot sin (their only “sin” lies in the inability (until the resurrection – until the time of achieving the fullness of being – deification), despite all efforts, zeal, and humility, to perfectly, completely respond with reciprocity to God’s Love, that is, to perfectly partake of the Eucharist (the fullness of the Holy Spirit); and the one who does not have the Spirit of Christ (the Holy Spirit) is not His (not in marriage with Christ, not in the Church) – not a Christian!), – then they are not in the Church. Otherwise, the Church would be sinful (which is impossible!); the Church is Holy! Only the catechumens can sin, because they do not yet have the Holy Spirit – the Power from Heaven; only those clothed with this Power have the strength and authority to be children of God! Sin is not being a Son of God, not being a member of the Body of Communion in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, the Body of Catholicity, the Body of the Eucharist, the Body of the communion of the Holy Spirit! To sin is to be not a Christian, it is a symptom of a godless (without the Holy Spirit) “life” outside the Body of Christ (the Eucharist), outside the Church. The Church is One, HOLY, CATHOLIC, Apostolic! And we are either in the Church (in the Eucharist, in the Holy Spirit), or not, either preparing for baptism (that is, catechumens), or not!!! Those who are in the Church, that is, are members of the parish (the Eucharistic community of the people of God, the royal priesthood), – do not sin! And the one who sins unto death (consciously chooses sin and rejects the truth; death is to fall away from God, from the Church. The sin with which the ascetic, the warrior of Christ struggles (even if he falls due to weakness (because a person does not immediately receive the entire fullness of the Holy Spirit, but gradually, as they grow spiritually, that is, in godlike humility; they do not immediately learn to love Divinely, and God, raising children, allows them to fight with Satan – to receive wounds in the struggle… – more on the laws of spiritual life in the following parts)), does not separate from God, but on the contrary, brings the fruit of humility, and to the humble, God gives grace!