The City Which is to Come
We donāt get caught up in the endless controversies and pursuits of this world. Let such dead ways of living bury themselves, because death is their aim. Here we have no lasting city. We seek the City which is to come.
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Not By Heroism, Lest Anyone Should Boast
Pagans did get some things right. Salvation does mean rescue from Hades, and it does mean being seated together with the Most High God. But they were wrong when they thought you could get it by impressing the gods.
Angels are the Original Saints
In the baptism and chrismation that we are given, and in the Eucharist with which we are strengthened and divinized, we are given all that we need in order to become members of the hosts of heaven.
Asceticism, Suffering and the Justice of God
Faithfulness to justice, to righteousness, is what it means to be Christian and what is required to stay within the kingdom of God, both in this life and into the age to come.
The Ethic of the Sons of God
To be the sons of God, we do the works of the Father in heaven. If we instead do the works of the devilāwhich are sināthen he is our father instead. And if we do the works of the Father, then we become equal to the angels, the original āsons of Godā who do His works.