ΤΗΕ ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
The first Church is the Holy Trinity; it is God Himself, Who is One, but, at the same time, also three separate Persons, discernible from one another.
Exactly there, right into this very first Church had God put Adam and Eve. This is how much He loved us! However, from the very moment we disobeyed against God, the Holy Spirit went away; we lost It. From that moment on we lost our communion with God, our communion with the Holy Trinity, and we got out of this First Church.
Nevertheless, God did not abandon us in our solitude. He did send His Son, in order to connect us with Himself again. This is the reason why God became man:
in order to restore the Holy Spirit inside of us, to bring us again in communion with Him, and make us members of the First Church again, members of the Church of the Holy Trinity.
So, the Son and Word of God, one of the Three Persons, comes and takes on our nature (essence) and again (He in Himself) connects the created with the uncreated, connects man, who is a creature (this is what created means), with God, Who is the only uncreated One (since nobody created God). So, from now on, when somebody connects with Him, he/she becomes a member of the first Church, of this very Church Adam and Eve fell off.
f. Savvas Agioreitis
To be continued...
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