The poison of original sin is in every one of us. This is in us and the devil laughs. Unless we fight against sin, pride and lusts for all our life, we can easily lapse into heresy. If we believe ourselves, we destroy ourselves. That is the poison in us and we have to fight with it continuously because it leads us to self-destruction. We must carry it as a cross, not unite with it but resist it. “Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Jesus!”

Jesus says: “Whoever desires to save his life (soul) will lose it, but whoever loses his life (soul) will save it.” This is the essence of Christianity. It means to have a living faith, to accept the divine truths as they are and not to invent our own truths or speculate. We must believe in the truths which Jesus gave us to believe in – His Gospel, and not in any other gospel because the Word of God says: “If anyone preaches any other gospel, let him be accursed – anathema sit.” Unfortunately, the majority of contemporary theologians preach a different gospel.

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