THE WATER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT-COORDINATES FOR THE HUMAN BEING’S ETERNAL LIFE Cover Image

APA ȘI DUHUL-COORDONATELE ÎNVEȘNICIRII OMULUI
THE WATER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT-COORDINATES FOR THE HUMAN BEING’S ETERNAL LIFE

Author(s): Rafael Povîrnaru
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: God; Holy Spirit; Sacraments; devil; Paradise

Summary/Abstract: By his human condition, the man turns out to be an entity permanently under the pressure of the missing Paradise. This reality appears as the effect of our First Parents’ loss of communion, of their captivity in the “devil’s prison” resulted by their impiety towards God. The loss of Paradise proves to be an event which gives the human being not just the endless aspiration towards God’s lost grace, but at the same time, the new reality that turns people into the main target of the devil’s intentions as a common consequence of the fantasy of being like God. The Water and the Holy Spirit reconfigure the human being by remaking his relationship with God.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2018
  • Issue No: 01-03
  • Page Range: 50-64
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian