The divine plan for salvation

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"And this also must be noted: that God does not punish someone in the future; rather, each person makes himself receptive to the partaking of God. And the partaking of God is bliss, while the non-partaking of Him is punishment (Hell)..."   "...those sinners who desire sin, albeit not having the materials of sin, shall be punished as though devoured by fire and worm, with no solace whatsoever. What is "hell", if not the deprival of something desired?"  (Saint  John of Damascus  (676 - 749) "Against Manichaeans" PG 94 , 1545 D – 1548 A, and 1573  C).

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• Maundy Thursday and 30 pieces of silver
• Before the Judgment Seat of Christ
• The 24 Salutations o the Holy Mother - The Akathist Hymn
• Divine Providence : From God’s Law to God’s Grace
• God as “fire” and “light”
• How will the resurrected bodies be transformed during the Second Coming?
• The Salvation of the Heterodox and those of Other Faiths
• The death of infants
• Paradise and Hell according to Orthodox tradition
• Does God punish?
• Holy Communion and Confession
• Regarding the Church
• Confession - Confessor - Confessing

• Laughter and prattling without discernment will erode our spiritual labours
• The Venerable Mary of Egypt
• The Problem of Theodicy
• A Cruciform Providence
• She said "Yes"!
• Entering the Mystery of Christmas
• The mystery and the process of death
• Toll Houses: After Death Reality or Heresy?
• The Tragic Paradox of Christian Jerks
• Heaven and Hell in the Afterlife According to the Bible
• Is Hell real?
• The Ascetic and the Robber
• Does Isaiah really teach the juridical theory of  a "demented god" who punishes one innocent in the place of sinners?
• The "Road" and Salvation
• The Resurrection of Christ is the annihilation of Death
• “I anticipate the Resurrection of the Dead…”
• The significance of the “Antilytron”
• The juridical mentality of the West annuls Christ’s sacrifice
• On the beatings that the Lord suffered
• The two resurrections
• Of course we shall be resurrected!
• Rebirth “by water and Spirit”
• The Kingdom of Heaven, where racial discrimination has no place
• The letter of the Law can be deadly
• The Second Coming of Christ
• Why is there evil in the world?
• Freedom and way of existence in Orthodoxy
• Genuine and false experiences of the Grace of God
• Our Hell and our Paradise are prepared by us, here.