Timp și veșnicie, conform învățăturii Părintelui Sofronie
Time and Eternity according to the Teaching of Elder Sophrony

Summary/Abstract: Elder Sophrony according to his own testimony was familiar with the issues of eternity and time. As a young boy he used to converse with his friends with whom he was engaged in such conversations of this great mystery of time and eternity. As he was growing he become even more interested to the unseen, the indefinite, more especially during the time of the First World War. The mystery of eternity and time were deeply occupied a fundamental aspect in his conscience. During our conversation with him, the issue of time was discussed in relation with prayer. The question was when we pray are we outside time? The answer of Elder Sophrony was «We live in the two realities [of prayer and created reality] but we must reach the stale when we ore no longer limited to the created reality». On another occasion Elder Sophrony said that «God never forgets a prayer even we forget it; prayer is an eternal act and always it remains as such». In another question whether is God’s eternity everlasting or outside time, Elder Sophrony answered: „I think that in God there is no duration; He said I am”. He is the creator encompasses all. In other words what Father Sophrony was saying was that although God is outside time. He embraces and encompasses time, ft could be said that He englobes all eternity.

• Details
• Contents