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THE CANON OF ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA

on July 18, 2019

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DID SATAN KNOW JESUS WAS GOD?

We read in the synoptic gospels that Satan came to tempt Lord Jesus in the desert. The question arises: Could have Jesus really fall into sin? ; and furthermore, why would Satan try to induce Jesus to fall into sin if he knew God cannot possibly sin? (Mt 4:1-11; Mk 1:12-13; Lk 4:1-13).
When Satan tempted Lord Jesus, he repeatedly asked, “If you are the Son of God” (Mt 4:3, 6), before making his evil offerings, which in turn contrasts with the explicit declaration of different demons that Jesus was indeed “The Son of the Most High God” (Mt 8:29; Mk 1:24; 5:7; Lk 4:34; 8:28).
When the Logos incarnated to carry on the divine Plan of Salvation, the divinity of the Messiah was hidden from unbelievers and demons, for two reasons:
The prime object of the redemptive plan was centred in the humanity of the Redeemer, not in his divinity. The Logos of YHWH became the person of Jesus of Nazareth at the incarnation, in representation of the whole human race in order to carry on the vicarious atonem…

LATRIA AND PROSKYNESIS

Latria (Λατρεία) and Proskynesis (Προσκύνησις) are two ancient theological terms used to differentiate the type of attention Christians offer to the Holy Trinity in comparison with other sacred persons, articles or places.
LATRIA: Better translated as Adoration, is the act of worship a Christian offers to the Persons of the Holy Trinity alone, that is YHWH, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, in one Divine Nature and one by one in their hypostases. This type of adoration implies a total surrendering of the human being and nature, mind, body and spirit to the Person and Will of God without any reservations.
PROSKYNESIS: It is theVeneration that Christians offer to St Mary, the Mother of our Lord, the saints, religious images, the Bible, relics, etc. This veneration consists only in respect of heart and mind, towards these subjects, and actions that would reflect that respect, like genuflections, kissing the object or placing them in honour, etc.
NOTE
It must be clarified that, while from outside…

HOW TAKING HOLY COMMUNION SANCTIFIES THE BELIEVER

A Human is composed of a matter and a spirit (Genesis 2:7).
The material part is the body and its organs, the spirit is the invisible energy that gives life to this material organism, and the union of both at the time of conception gives birth to the consciousness or “Soul”(1Thessalonians 5:23), which from that time onwards is inseparable from the spirit and will become united with the body again at the time of the Resurrection.
When a believer participates of the Holy Supper at our Lord’s Table, he really partakes from the real Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore his whole being is sanctified.
When we take communion, the physical part of the Eucharist, the bread and the wine, being material come into our body via the mouth, and from there to our blood stream and all our cells, sanctifying every inch of our bodies. Our material organism becomes literally holy until we desecrated it again by committing sin.
The spiritual reality of Jesus present in the elements, sanctif…

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