Christ
Pantocrator
"God is everywhere present. Wherever God
is, there also is His Uncreated Light. The Uncreated Light of our Triune God
fills all things. Therefore, no place is a place of darkness. All is all-bright
with the Uncreated Light of our Triune God, Who shines with His Light and with
his incomparable Divine Love. In other words, God bombards us with incomparable
tons of His Divine Love. And woe to him who does not accept this Love, for he
will experience it as incomparable hell, as incomparable hate and incomparable
darkness in the other life.
"With
this teaching, all of the thoughts of modern man are put into order, that say
that, if God is incomparable love, how is it possible for us to go to hell for
all eternity with so many torments? God neither condemns to hell, nor is hell
His creation. God out of love made all things, and whatever He created is
wholly light and love. Darkness and punishment were not created by God. We have
created them with sin and with death, we have created darkness and hell.
Therefore, God, does not condemn us to hell, but we self-condemn ourselves on
our own.
"It
is like the sun which shines wholly bright, and there are eyes of men who
desire to go blind and do not wish to see the light of the sun, even forever.
In this eternal self-blinding, one remains in darkness even though he was given
the chance to see. Every human being has this pure choice and is free, and God
honors this and does not intervene. And man lives his life and works his sins
and God does not stand in his way, but unless he turns in repentance and
chooses to follow His righteousness, then he can't condemn God for the hell
that he will experience in the next life."
-Elder
Ephraim of St. Andrew Skete, Mount Athos
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