Virtuțile creștine – căi vindecătoare pentru trup și suflet
Christian virtues – healing ways for body and soul

Author(s): Cristian Vasile PETCU
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: sin; virtue; life; health; responsibility;
Summary/Abstract: In the world in which he lives, from a spiritual point of view, two horizons are constantly open to the man on the path to salvation: that of good and that of evil. That is why Saint Peter the Damascene considers that in this way man is permanently between righteousness and sin, which is why it depends on him which way he goes forward. If his choice is the good, the justice, the truth, then the man proves that he has spiritual discernment and is a man with a healthy soul. In the vision of Talasius the Libyan, the healthy man is the one who sees how sins and virtues stand next to each other, and by distinguishing them, he can choose the practice of virtues in order to follow the path of eternal life. Therefore, man, by his will, either chooses to freely fulfill virtue and live beautifully and healthily, or to become a slave to the passions that lead to suffering, disease and death. God has thus given man the ability to choose between these ways of existence in order to make him responsible for his own life and, therefore, to make him aware that assuming life also means a great responsibility towards his personal life, towards his peers, as well as towards by Him. Because, by the way he lives in body and soul the life that God has given him, man fully acquires for himself either immortality and eternal happiness, or eternal death.

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