{"id":3873,"date":"2015-05-15T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T09:53:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-12T11:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T09:51:35","slug":"man-d42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxalbania.org\/2020\/en\/2015\/05\/15\/man-d42\/","title":{"rendered":"Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Man, according to the scriptures, is created \u201cin the likeness of God\u201d (<em>Gen 1:26-27<\/em>). To be like God, through the gift of God, is the essence of man\u2019s being and life. In the scriptures it says that God breathed into man, the \u201c<strong>breath [or spirit] of life<\/strong>\u201d (<em>Gen 2:7<\/em>). This divine teaching has given rise to the understanding in the Orthodox Church that man cannot be truly human, truly himself, without the Spirit of God. Thus Saint Irenaeus (<em>3rd c<\/em>.) said in his well-known saying, often quoted by Orthodox authors, that \u201cman is body, soul, and Holy Spirit.\u201d This means that for man to fulfil himself as created in the image and likeness of God\u2014that is, to be like Christ who is the perfect. divine, and uncreated Image of God\u2014man must be the temple of God\u2019s Spirit. If man is not the temple of God\u2019s Spirit, then the only alternative is that he is the temple of the evil spirit. There is no middle way. Man is either in an unending process of life and growth in union with God by the Holy Spirit, or else he is an unending process of decomposition and death by returning to the dust of nothingness out of which he was formed, by the destructive power of the devil. This is how the Orthodox spiritual tradition interprets the \u201ctwo ways\u201d of the Mosaic law:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse, therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord, obeying His voice and cleaving to Him, for that means life to you (Dt 30:19-20). <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is this same teaching that the Apostle Paul gives in his doctrine of the \u201ctwo laws\u201d at work in the life of man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. [&#8230;] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. [&#8230;] For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, hut those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace (Rom 7:14-8:17).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Every human being is confronted with these two possibilities, ultimately the only two possibilities of human existence. Either a person chooses life by the grace of God and the power of the Spirit\u2014the \u201cabundant\u201d and \u201ceternal life\u201d given by God in creation and salvation through Jesus Christ\u2014or the person chooses death. The whole pathos of human existence consists in this choice, whether a person is aware of it or not. Christian spiritual life depends on the conscious choice of the \u201cway of life.\u201d To \u201cchoose life\u201d and to walk in the \u201cway of life\u201d is the way that man shows himself to be in the image and likeness of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For by the hands of the Father, that is by the Son and the Holy Spirit, man, and not merely a part of man, was made in the likeness of God\u2026 for the perfect man consists in the commingling and the union of the soul receiving the Spirit of the Father and the fleshly nature which was also moulded after the image of God\u2026 the man becomes spiritual and perfect because of the outpouring of the Spirit, and this is he who was made in the image and likeness of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If in a man the Spirit is not united to the soul, this man is imperfect. He remains animal and carnal. He continues to have the image of God in his flesh, but he does not receive the divine likeness through the Holy Spirit (St Irenaeus, 2nd C., Against Heresies).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Man, according to the scriptures, is created \u201cin the likeness of God\u201d (Gen 1:26-27). To be like God, through the gift of God, is the essence of man\u2019s being and life. In the scriptures it says that God breathed into man, the \u201cbreath [or spirit] of life\u201d (Gen 2:7). 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