"They have faith in their faith." Those are the words I've been looking for. For years, I've been trying to succinctly describe the flaw in Evangelical logic, and Spyridon here just summed it up perfectly.

@TinaHyde

4 жыл бұрын

That line opened my eyes, too! Simple yet profound.

@RoyalProtectorate

3 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with you

"...faith in our faith. And not in God...." I thank God, Father Spyridon, for this video.

Erin,the Father was so happy when the prodigal son came home!Our Father will never reject a son coming home!He loves you dearly.

That was the most thorough and demolishing refutation of sola fide Ive ever seen! Fantastic!

Lord have mercy upon me a sinner; father I love your videos, and thank you again so much for diligently producing wonderful in depth insights into the way!!! Christ is risen!!!

@tessalogan586

4 жыл бұрын

Amen✌

Lord Jesus Christ , Son of God , have mercy on me , a sinner. Love your enemies , pray for those who persecute you. Thank you for your words Father.

Blessed father, during the recent lockdown and with the closing down of our Orthodox churches in the UK, the Grace of God, through your weekly sermons and homilies from years back, have rekindled my faith and kept me on the narrow road. Isolated physically as I am yet blessed to have your guidance from afar. I have recently read your book ‘Orthodoxy and the kingdom of satan’ which has further emboldened my faith and nurtures obedience to the Word of God. I pray Christ our Lord and Saviour to protect you and bless you abundantly with the gifts of His Grace, so that we may continue to receive your spiritual guidance, for the glory of our Lord’s Holy Name, now and forever, amen.

@margyrowland

3 жыл бұрын

Μ Kyriakides Me too. I’m a Catholic living in Australia. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

'Everything we experience is permitted by God'. The only thing that can make the cross we each must carry lighter.

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

A friend once said to me that he doesn't take offense at anything he suffers, because, by definition, it is all common to human experience -- why would he consider himself immune? 😏

Thank you, Father. I'm new to Orthodoxy and a frequent worry of mine is if I'm doomed for Hell. I often have fits of despair, distress, worry, and hopelessness. I know I sin, I know I mess up, I know I'm not perfect, but I make an effort to repent for my sins. We must all be wary of our sins and repent for them, but we can't let despair and dread consume us. God's love and mercy is infinite and eternal. And while none of us are 100% certain of where we'll end up after death, we need to follow Christ and keep faith he will save us. Uncertainty often can lead to confusion and doubt, but we must let hope, peace, and love triumph in the end. This is something I think we should all remember, especially in these trying times. I'm so grateful that God has blessed us with your wisdom and compassion, Father. God bless you and please pray for all of us.

@Alex-hz2xg

3 жыл бұрын

Each new day we are given by God is a new chance to repent.

Thank you for honesty, a real faith and willingness to share with all us sinners! Blessed be the Triune God!!!

I just read this part of the Bible and had a few questions. Not a coincidence that I found this.

@hendersonshuntinglodge1207

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, if we believe all things are in god's hands then there are no coincidences. nothing is random, but too often we don't see what's happening.

Thank you Father for such great wisdom and encouragement. I have hope after listening to you.

thank you for this message Father Spyridon, I have been neglectful of prayer and when I prayed this morning i had a guilty conscience. This has picked me up a bit. may God bless us.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost now and forever and unto the ages of ages. Amen ☦️

Greetings and blessings from California, it's been wonderful to hear your messages during these trying times. Thank you Father for your work, your faith, and perseverance!

It’s always God’s decision whether we go to Heaven or not, so aren’t we blessed by His compassion for the penitent sinner. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

I love learning from this priest. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner Thank you for your words Father.

Thank you Fr.Spyridon🙏🙏

Father.. thank you for allowing God to use you as a vessel for his wisdom. I know it comes with a price, but also with great reward. God bless you!

Anastasia Let us commend ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ our God Se Kyrie. Thank you Father 💕

As usual, Fr. Spyridon hits it on the head. Go, Pater, go!

Thank you Father. Your message through God always eases my anxiety. I always want to get on my knees and pray after watching Father Spyridon's videos. Trust and have in faith in God. Embracing a living faith! God bless everyone!

I love you brother.. Blessings from California

God Bless you for this eloquent and descriptive message in His✝️ Truth. 🙏🔥🥰🛐✝️

Thank you Father fie sharing wonderful teachings of our faith

I have been watching your videos recently and it has given me the encouragement to begin my spiritual journey with these starting steps unto Jesus. I can feel that my spirit is drawn closer to the word of God with a new video that you present to us. My soul,spirit and Body is thankful for your good work and appreciate your efforts in bringing these messages from Jesus unto us.

Always a wise and thought provoking message Father. Thank you!

Thank you, Father, for this much needed clarification. I am a Catholic Christian in union with the Pope of Rome (whoever he may be at present), but I am edified by your teaching.

Thank you Father

Thank you, Father Spyridon. I'm now reading your fascinating book Journey to Mount Athos.

@hendersonshuntinglodge1207

4 жыл бұрын

the second one, return to mount Athos, is even better - in my opinion.

@shiro-md5yo

4 жыл бұрын

@@hendersonshuntinglodge1207 I want to read it too.

Thank you Father!!

Completely agree, thank you Father.

Just wanted to say I’m so blessed to come across your channel, I’m a Catholic and I’m only in from work and woah just what I needed thank you Father 🙏

@katherinecross8059

4 жыл бұрын

Complete your life in Christ. Come home to Orthodoxy. Rome excommunicated the rest of the Church in 1054, then sent Crusaders to finish off what that schism began.

@biblecatholic7494

4 жыл бұрын

Katherine Cross Everyday my life becomes more and more complete with the Lord, although the Catholic Church and orthodox argue over pens and pencils I believe the Catholic Church is the one true church and the stance the Orthodox Church takes on abortions isn’t as strict, either way one switch to another very similar version of catholicism is not what is going to make my life more complete picking up my cross everyday and denying myself is what will.

@lukebrasting5108

3 жыл бұрын

@@katherinecross8059 Google "Massacre of the Latins" and stop lying to justify your hatred of the true Church.

Thank you, thank you Father. May God give u good health and long life. In Jesus name amen

Thank you 💯💯

Thank you, Father Spyridon.

This is my favorite one. I love this story.

God bless you Fr. The Lord said “..... so that other SEE your good deeds” good deeds come as a result of living faith

I was lost for so many years and I found my way back to Christ , my living faith is stronger and I will endure whatever comes at me 🙏

Thank you

Thank you, Father.

Father, bless! Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance Matt 3:8

Dear father, shall you be talking about what happened to our beloved Hagia Sophia?

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

It is a crime.

@fotiniartdeco2912

4 жыл бұрын

"The fact that the world is so ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's quotation, so timeless relevant than ever..

Brilliant 🧨 great work, even when i’m brought to contemplate a statement it’s understanding & perception! Plus i’m often promoted to repent. Ace ♠️

Thankyou.

If you're a Reformed Protestant your faith is based on achieving some kind of certainty from mental cogitation and endless hours of expository preaching to gains some level of certainty about your faith. They say it's not about the quantity of your faith but the quality of your faith. They tell you in Protestant churches that the smallest mustard seed faith will save you. It's all some kind of mental effort. On the Orthodox side, they tell you that faith is not in the mind but in the heart. Because of the fall of Adam, the mind and heart are out of balance. The heart is the spiritual organ that God gave us to know Him directly. My biggest struggle with this subject is that it all seems to be very subjective. Epistemic certainty is a problem that all people of faith struggle with. Maybe I need to become a monk.

@frankherbert6476

2 жыл бұрын

Well said! The more I look back, the more i realize those ideas, well meaning as they were by loving people, were really philosophical precepts, expounding on ideas. "I believe! Help my unbelief!"

@randychurchill201

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankherbert6476 All you can do is pray that God will have mercy. We all struggle with spiritual delusion.

Bravo!

Nothing we do makes us worthy- so now how do I get from here to there? I’m never progressing , always proud and secretly and I Not humble. Fall after fall still going through haven’t shed my old skin of pride yet. 😱

@Caledoniadream

4 жыл бұрын

You are not alone in that. Our whole life is a way from one fall to another. What we are supposed to do is get up and go on. And trust God and pray to Him. My son can't take losing a game, he gets terribly irritated and angry when he fails to do smth perfectly at the 1st time, he would better give up. This is a great problem of all of us. We need patience.

@vasilii6417

4 жыл бұрын

@@Caledoniadream That was a wonderful reply Maria. It truly is a daily struggle. 👍🙏

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

I remember the story of one great saint (I don't remember which one, though), who said on his deathbed that he felt he had not begun to repent. Our turning to God must be the work of eternal existence, I imagine -- not even just an earthly lifetime?! 😉

Amém!

Father, I've been following you for more than a year now, your videos were amazing help as a cathecumens. I'd like to translate some of your videos into spanish so I can share them with friends who don't speak english, would you accept my translations?

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

If the videos can be of help that way then please do so. God bless you.

thank u

Pray for me father

Amen

In this world, it's very easy to go off course. Thank you for your simple correction. Laus tibi Christe.

It was the Centurion story that led me to Orthodoxy because the greatest faith is one that recognizes authority, which the Orthodox Church has I found out. This can also be a trap if your faith is in the Church or a leader in the church, etc, and not in God, the highest authority.

@shiro-md5yo

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but be careful. Someone who is not Orthodox can say "faith in only God, and not Jesus Christ", "faith in only God and you don't have to be Orthodox", or "faith in only God and we need not go to church", and so on.

@rustyshackelford3590

4 жыл бұрын

But that’s the same reasoning Protestants use when deciding against the Orthodox Church. They believe that the Orthodox Church is a trap that they trust in the words of men like the patriarchs and bishops and put as much faith in ecumenical councils as they do in God and Jesus. While the Protestants want to put there faith on God And Jesus and the Holy Spirit alone. Using the God inspired Bible as a guideline and template of God.

@verntweld51

4 жыл бұрын

Rusty Shackelford oh I see I was being confusing. So the recognition of authority given by God to the Orthodox Church which I recognize and yes it is made up of fallible people but they have authority from God who we are trusting. The Centurion recognized that the one who speaks for authority has the same power as the one in charge and God is in charge and apostolic succession gives Orthodox the authority which I was brought to see and try to share. Still as spread out as the Churches are and still in alliance with Catholics through basic Trinitarian dogma with the Pope recognized as a Bishop’s authority, it is still authority and should not be compared to Joe Shmoes startup church just because he has a great band and some wisdom books like where I was at.

Honestly your either a believer or not, God knows every 💓

Father, can i ask for the name of the bell song that plays on the end of your videos? I love to hear it.

@salvificdeputy3881

3 жыл бұрын

Call no man father

5:54, quotations of the saints.

Father what is your thoughts on those who say that Only believing in Jesus alone you'll be saved. are they right? or i that dead faith too?

Father Spyridon, I want to ask you about the bell sounds at the end of the video (6:14 - 6:21). Are these done on specific events? Are they done on Sunday church service or are they used in monasteries?

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

They were sent to me by a friend in Greece, he didn't give any details.

Thank you father spyridon for opening our eyes and teaching us, forgive me for the question that I'm going to ask... I'm not trying to be disrespectful or wicked for what I am about to say.. It's troubling me when I hear others say that our higher church leaders are masons and corrupt?? If that's true if they can't lead themselves or believe in their faith and guide us to Gods direction....? What do we see, learn and act the right way?and again forgive me for saying these things but we need to know the truth on what's really going on? I'm not trying to be wicked or sinister about this, it's just we need to know what's true in this corrupted world we live in,and thank you for teaching us bc we all need to learn our Lords way GOD BLESS US ALL

@justinaacuriouswanderer1496

4 жыл бұрын

Read church history... Till you reach the Great Schism.. & see for yourself where, unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church headed.. it reached the point of medieval crusades & wars from their part There were 5 churches.. 5 patriarchates: church of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem & Rome.. Rome left the 4 other churches which are now the Orthodox ones.. Roman Catholics: papal supremacy & things as such, it's the fruit of pride 💔 So do not be surprised when you see people following error to its end.. St Gregory the great, Patriarch of Rome (before the Schism) 590-604 AD said,: "Whoever calls himself universal bishop or desires this title is, by his pride, the precursor to the anti-Christ, because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. The error into which he falls springs from pride equal to that of anti-Christ; for as that wicked one wished to be regarded as exalted above other men, like a god, so likewise whoever calls himself sole bishop exalteth himself above others." The Orthodox Church is the persecuted church.. if you read the history of the martyrs.. especially of Egypt (the copts) But if you aren't into reading, then you might want to watch: kzread.info/head/PLY5w4erhY94bJiTEZM3w1MqogOXwCf9sJ Pinterest also is a great & fun starter for Orthodox teachings & church history.. We do agree with you that pope Francis, attempting to unite all religions into a "new era" (new age🤦) which in reality pioneers that of the anti-Christ.. paving the way for the anti-Christ.. & If you, though lovingly, assumed there to be secret alleged cults within ALL & ANY high church (even the humble Orthodox Church, God forbid!😅) Then how can we, sadly telling you, justify this? →kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZqMz6akgcyrYtI.html & This → kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2yKpNacoZuvpLQ.html Together with this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6p5kquMotO7eLg.html ? Have patience & see it... Read this after you see the videos: So, Sephraim, how can we look at the speck in our brother's eye yet fail to notice the beam of wood in ours?

@SERAPHIMXxAlpha-Xx

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info I already know about them, I was referring to our orthodox leaders in our faith.... They treat our church as a business, for example.... Our church leaders require us to have a membership and to pay it yearly to be allowed to hear our church service, baptisms,weddings Sunday schools, so...if poor families can't afford these dues? Then what? They're denied bc of that reason?, I have experienced it my self when my kids were young didn't have much money at the time and took my kids to Sunday school then I was called out in front of other parents for not having a membership for my kids to continue I was embarrassed and at the same time very disappointed on how our church is run like a business... And having priest in our church getting payed $100k and other priest $200k a year? And we have poor families that live with basic needs and if that......very disappointed and so on, I hope God forgives me for saying this but we see it all the time

@FlatWaterFilms

4 жыл бұрын

@@SERAPHIMXxAlpha-Xx State Controlled Churches: The 501c3 Deception Let me just add, I take pictures and video of old churches. They are uploaded to my channel. Since the current 'mess' started here in March, I've visited many churches. They all have closed, except one I found that did not. Did some research, they are an African church. They did not shut down, period. I could hear the singing, I pulled on the doors, they locked themselves in and for good reason. This was when the lock-down orders were given. Satan is very strong now and many people are being deceived. God is love & Satan is fear. When shown the light, few will see, when shown the darkness, many will follow. Father Spyridon is Saintly to me, such a wise man. I learn something new, every time I listen to his talks. Don't know how I discovered this channel?

@Pilgrim06

4 жыл бұрын

Dear brother in Christ, as father Spyridon reminds us today through this sermon, let us have faith and obedience in our Lord Jesus Christ; that is my duty as a Christian. Through such faith, as blessed father said, the Holy Spirit will descend and transform our lives, and make us worthy of heaven, to paraphrase today’s sermon. I, similarly to you, have wondered recently, saying ‘what happened to my Bishops, where is my priest, what is the clergy up to during these evil times? ‘ Father Peter Heers (Orthodox) has touched on this question together with other monks from Mt Athos, here on KZread. Also if you can obtain Father Spyridon Bailey’s book (Amazon) ‘Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan’ you will understand like I did where we need to be today as a Church and as a Society. Hence the importance of true faith! Obedience to the Word of God. We are all sinners, hence I decided to stop worrying about the clergy - I decided to pray for them day and night, as their faith depends upon my humble prayers. By the way, I’m not here to advertise for father Spyridon, as I do not know him in person, only through prayer. Through his sermons, through my repentance and through the Grace of God I’m becoming a disciple of Christ. What other fellow Christians do - that’s in the hands of Christ. For the moment, Christ has given me father Spyridon, through KZread, for my salvation. Blessed be the name of the Lord for such gifts! May the blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you and on all your loved ones.

British are the most pleasant people ever

Do you know a living saint who can pray for me? Please tell me where they live and how can I meet them. I need prayer to be healed and to get love from God.

@victor382

4 жыл бұрын

All saints are alive.

@MegaHabeshawi

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope God gives me the faith and love like you all.

James 2:26 say faith without works is death? To me that would imply that faith is living and that always seem to contradict what the evangelical/Protestant type Christianity teaches on faith which only requires to only blindly believe in Jesus, with reaffirmation of it to a contemporary Christian pop/rock beat. So I’ve in agreement with a living faith. However it seems like a paradox that a kind and loving God would permit or allow such rampant evil to occur. Maybe God is not so kind and loving? Modern Christianity often portrayed as God to be all good with Satan as all evil - and a total black and White dichotomy with no shades of gray.

I do not faith to get healing or salivation. Please pray for me. Please tell me if there is a living saint who can pray in front of God for me to ask mercy and healing.

@MegaHabeshawi

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/e5170MmElKa6gZc.html such a Father is what I am looking for

My GPS

Sorry to say father but my local orthodox church have lack of religious activity which cause of dead faith. People do not want to stay in church because have lack of activity. ☦️🙏

ΕΥΛΟΓΕΙΤΕ. Ω! FATHER SPYRIDON, THE LADY THEOTOKOS AND, SAINT SPYRIDON TO INTERCEDE IN OUR CHRIST GOD, TO ALOWED YOU FATHER ,CONTINUED THE SYNOPTICAL VIEWS AND,ANALYSIS OF HIS WILL, IN THE FASHION THAT YOU DO. ΚΑΛΟΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟ ΠΑΤΕΡ. THANK YOU!

Father Can you tell us about the Sleeping Direction I heard east side is good What do you think about this

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

hello Jay, I've never heard of this.

is the name father a title he gave himself or real name etc etc?

@Pasto08

4 жыл бұрын

He has been given the title father by the Holy Church when he was made a priest as since he became and is the spiritual father of his flock in Christ.

What does he mean? That God is in control of our sorrow? I keep hearing this and I used to believe it to an extent but I don't understand how God is sending us sorrow. We've been reconciled to God through Christ. Every good and perfect gift comes from the father of lights. He sent His Holy Spirit to teach us. The enemy is the one who comes but to steal kill and destroy. God doesn't tempt any man with evil. So how is God in control or permissive of our sorrows?

I'm in the most dreadful place. I have no wish to judge as I am not worthy. However, I must judge for us in the west, the OCA and ROCOR both have now surrendered and are conducting our worship services according to the dictates of a godless government. Only a certain number of people may attend. Names will be taken (for contact tracing). Icons must not be venerated (iconoclasm). No singing. No common spoon for the blessed Eucharist lest we get a virus!! I am more afraid of insulting the Spirit of Grace than of being viewed as judgmental. I don't know what to do. I feel totally alone. Even some heterodox are putting up more resistance to government dictates than we are and they don't have the living body and blood of Christ! Even the poor, godless North Koreans would, as Vladimir Putin has said "rather eat grass than submit to U.S. tyranny". And we just roll over and submit.

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Craig, be assured, we had a Liturgy on Sunday, no limit to the congregation size, no list of names taken, Holy Communion taken from a common spoon. No one was prevented from kissing the icons. The sung responses are an essential part of our worship. We are ROCOR. Your statement is not correct.

@craigmouldey2339

4 жыл бұрын

@@FatherSpyridonROCOR That is a relief to hear. It isn't like that in Ontario, Canada. I wonder if there are no 'red lines' that cannot be crossed here.

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

@@craigmouldey2339 The UK government has banned congregations of more than thirty for baptisms and weddings, but regular services have no limit. There are certain suggestions made,, but no requirement in law to make lists of names etc. - I don't think our Russian members would be happy after the experiences in their homeland under the communists to see registers being taken. The little I know about Canada suggests you have a very liberal regime - liberal in the sense that it is very opposed to traditional values, so I assume the attitude towards Christians would not be entirely sympathetic. Don't let their schemes rob you of your peace Craig, we must expect much worse to come. God bless you.

@craigmouldey2339

4 жыл бұрын

@@FatherSpyridonROCOR You have it al pegged pretty well Father. There are Russians in my OCA parish and my priest did mention they may not like the idea of lists of names. But he still had to institute that requirement, per the Bishop. I don't think the ROCOR Parish did that. Yes, the federal government is globalist liberal on steroids. But I believe these requirements are coming from the provincial government which is conservative. Apparently, they are taking their directions from somebody else. If we so easily fall in line now, what is going to happen, I wonder, when those much more difficult times arrive? I don't believe we will have long to find out. Thank you for your responses.

Since the original God's true Sabbath day is changed, and not becoming"" born-again"" as per to the teachings of JESUS CHRIST.

@FatherSpyridonROCOR

4 жыл бұрын

The sabbath is still saturday, but the Lord's day of Resurrection is Sunday - this is why the first Christians met together on this day. Of course, Seventh day Adventists believe something different to Christianity.

Hi Pate Spyridon, can God communicate with us through numbers? I have been wondering about this for a long time

Hebrews 11 !

Christianity needs scholars, teachers and evangelists - but does Christianity need priests?

@hendersonshuntinglodge1207

4 жыл бұрын

Scholars are useful to reject heresy, but beyond that, give me a priest every day. the living reality of being Orthodox is liturgical.

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

Please pose that question to an Orthodox priest -- who, if he is a good and faithful one, is all four of these, every day. 🙏🕯☦

@DChristina

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you’ve experienced Divine Liturgy for what it is (not with through the lens of the world), how could you know?!

@Jupiter__001_

4 жыл бұрын

The priest is the teaching presbyter (presbyter can be translated as elder). That is specifically mentioned in the writings of Paul on ideal church structure.

@nikolaoskal7438

4 жыл бұрын

Who are you to speak on behalf of Christianity? Nobody, just a heretic. Know your role and shut your mouth.

The Bible teaches of a sanctifying and Justifying FAITH, which FAITH is not by the law of Moses or the Ten Commandments, as in Acts 13:39; Galatians 5:4 & 3:23-25

Brother, I have benefited much over the months by what you have taught, but you're really confusing the issue of faith! When you talk about a dead faith (I take it you're referring to what St.James said in his epistle; because as far as I'm aware, St.Paul never mentioned a dead faith), it sounds like you're saying that we have to maintain our faith to prove that it is real. I'll give you what I believe faith is: do you believe that the death of Jesus Christ satisfied the righteous wrath of God and squared the accounts? Do you believe that if you and I accept that death on our behalf, we will be declared innocent in the sight of God because someone took the rap for us? That is what you have to believe in order to be justified. That is what it is to believe in Jesus Christ- have faith in Him. We must see in Jesus Christ nothing less than God taking our place in judgment and taking the responsibility for our evils. It is confidence in the life, the ministry, the work, the achievements, and the grace of God.

@marymarysmarket3508

4 жыл бұрын

Roger McIntyre The death of Christ was NOT TO APPEASE AN ANGRY GOD. The Orthodox faith is so profound, the theology of the Logos~Christ (Word of God) so vast and deep, that it would much more than a short video to explain that wisdom from which Fr. teaches. Please contact an Orthodox priest or deacon. Your assumptions here are not shared by our teachings. Blessings on your way

@tuck-brainwks-eutent-hidva1098

4 жыл бұрын

Echoing Mary's Market's thought -- a very different soteriology (understanding of salvation) prevailed early in the life of the Church, before medieval Western thought and scholastic innovation emphasized the juridical images you describe. The Protestant movement deepened the divide from ancient faith. Agreed that a priest could explain the details better; I can offer that we are often encouraged with the image of Christ's death as the "trampling down [of] death by death," and with the image of the Church as a hospital -- the place of healing > condemnation.

Faith is the opinion formed in belief about eternity in the conformity of reality justified in determination of reason by Heaven guarded by eternity in the policy of God Creator by promise for humanity as the Eucharist proofs these days. By personal faith we are by God called to become an example in the world of belief to God only by the policy by promise. Receiving the knowledge of the computer was by personal faith called by God to become an official example in belief to God in the policy by promise of the Eucharist while the intention of virginity was proven according Ephese 6, the foundation of the Holy Church. Faith stays a blessing and becomes never a curse. Real faith has total trust on Heaven and is 100 % belief to God Creator in other words every moment for eternity. In belief to God Creator has the trust on Heaven to grow by no other way of God in the policy by promise than faith while God is a partner of Heaven and belief to God has to be for the future of eternity with God's promise of eternal life in Paradise. Every opinion has to be made under Heaven for eternity with God's promise of eternal life in Paradise established in desire. Democratization is a proof of the growing faith of the world in the personal responsibility with the collective memory and so it is a proof of growing belief to God Creator for the promise of salvation over the bread. As long faith is growing it seems fluctuating while potential faith is building up because each memory is eternal as impossibilities fade away. Faith has an immeasurable value and is not to measure by intellect (IQ).

Amen