The Bible teaches a kind of package plan: You have God, truth, life and glory, or you have demons, darkness, death, satan, sin, corruption, ugliness and rot. This is the basic reality, and there is no middle path.
Fr. Thomas Hopko, spoken in Brisbane, Australia, October 1999
Indeed.
Deuteronomy 30:19
It’s like a (very) concise version of the Didaché 🙂
Is there a podcast some place where we can listen to this lecture?
davidperi,
Not a podcast – but a text. I’ve placed the link in the post (which I should have done when I posted it). The link is:
http://www.orthodoxchristian.info/pages/afterdeath.htm
OCN has a series Fr Thomas Hopko gave which seems very similar.
Starting (go to the last page and then the second to last page):
http://www.myocn.net/index.php/Special-Moments-in-Orthodoxy/
The Death of Jesus & Our Death in Him