We speak so much about who is a Christian, who is a catechumen, and who has not even begun to be catechized so that everyone first of all knows their location, their spiritual (godless: catechumen or non-catechumen; Christians do not go to “pharmacies”! They are already led-taught by the Holy Spirit) state (“Adam, where are you?” – see Genesis 3:9) and begins to repent (a son repents differently before the father than a slave! Are you already a son or still a slave?! Woe, when a person (“Christian”) has not even become a slave (of God), and already behaves like a son! “This is Dad, Who Loves me, He will forgive me everything,” – thinks the deceived “Christian,” whose father is not the Heavenly Father, but the devil (see John 8:44). Instead of weeping and mourning, the act of repentance before God, the dreamer comforts himself that dad loves him and will forgive him everything!? The correctness of the coordinates determines the salvific, correctness of repentance)! God is Love! And therefore He cannot save us without us!!! We testify to the great catastrophe in Orthodox churches (for example, we cite churches in Ukraine), because there is no catechism in them (none: everyone for himself, and by himself!). And “Orthodox” people object to me, saying that it has always been so and that it is not a disaster – see: people live, pray, save themselves… And how many saints, martyrs, confessors were there, for example, in the 20th century!? So, the Lord leads them!? And you shout: disaster, fire (fire)! – We have already talked a lot about this, and now we will recall the words of the Apostle Paul, who acted in the Holy Spirit: “I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:20-21), “I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27), “Therefore be on the alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears night and day” (Acts 20:31). Why such fuss, such expenditure of calories, nerves, such efforts (“three years, night and day” (well, let it be day, you can still understand somehow, but at night – you need to sleep! Moreover, the Apostle Paul was sick, the thorn of Satan was in the flesh, so why exhaust yourself so much, wear out, “die every day,” if everything is so simple – the Lord still leads, teaches every person!?), “with tears” and even “each one individually” (couldn’t he teach wholesale, a whole assembly – he preached, lectured, talked, and that’s enough for them!?) – why?! The Apostle probably did not understand what he was doing, but “Orthodox” people know that catechism-teaching is not necessary, for them (as they say in mathematics) it is infinitesimally small, which can be neglected, forgotten, ignored, which “Orthodox” people did! Every liturgy they mention catechumens, even ask them to leave (“Catechumens, depart”), but the catechism itself for “Orthodox” is an empty sound, a void, even heresy…)? Why worry about some teaching, catechism, if the Lord Himself leads people, teaches them, etc.?! I ask “Orthodox”: why then did the Lord warn about false apostles, false teachers, false prophets, if the Lord leads every person?! The will of God is that people teach each other! This is the law established by God (the best way to salvation, gaining a personal catholic consciousness, a sense of interdependence of all members of the Body, the realization of all humanity as a body…), – that people be instructed by people, taught! For example, the angel of God sent Cornelius (see Acts 10) to be taught-catechized by people (Christians), although the angel himself could tell him the Orthodox teaching. The angel told Cornelius to summon Peter, and he would tell him words by which he and his whole household would be saved, that is, Peter would catechize Cornelius, prepare him for baptism by the Holy Spirit. Could the angel not tell the same words of Truth that the Apostle Peter preached – he could and knew it all! But it must be a person (a Christian or a catechumen who has the gift of apostleship or teaching, or prophecy), so that a person is catechized by a person – such is the order from the Lord.
Therefore, the Lord sent to preach, to teach all nations (and each person individually catechize!) not disembodied spirits (angels), but people!!!
(And who can accept the teaching-catechism from an Angel, the secret teaching of mysterious thoughts-revelations in their depths… only a few! In the Old Testament, these were the prophets, who taught people, conveying to them the will of God, which they themselves learned from God through angels. In the New Testament, the Word of God (the will of God) is conveyed by Christians (every Christian is a prophet) and also by those catechumens who have received from the Holy Spirit the gift of apostleship or teaching, or prophecy, who preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God (which has already come!) and teach people the commandments of God, the will of God, and prepare them for baptism by the Holy Spirit! And pagans are only brought, directed to the church (to Christians and catechumens who have appropriate Spiritual gifts (apostleship, teaching…)) by various ways of God’s providence (through the secret voice of Angels, books, circumstances (grief, pain, joy…), meetings, various miracles, signs, etc.); but they are taught, catechized only in the church, only by people and through people (checking all teaching with the Holy Scriptures: the Bible and the works of the Holy Fathers). Therefore, the teaching-catechism of people is carried out only by people).