Quiz: About the meaning of life

Certainly, God desires salvation for all. "Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?» says the Lord God, «and not that he should turn from his ways and live?" (Ezekiel 18:23). This was already revealed to the Old Testament prophets. The apotheosis of this vision of the world is in the parables of the Saviour about the lost sheep, the lost drachma and others.

It is important to consider that the first Christian scholar of theology, the Apostle Paul, speaking about the so-called predestination, "means only those who are saved (Rom.8:29-30; Eph.1:5, 11), but by no means those who perish. Never and nowhere does he speak of predestination to perdition. <...> who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.' (1 Timothy 2:4), and predestination to salvation is to be understood as an expression of God's inexorable will to do all things necessary for the salvation of those who make good use of their free will."

(Prot. Livery Voronov, Prot. Dogmatic Theology.).

Pointing to the mercy and kindness of God, Evangelist Luke says that even the robber, having repented, confessing faith in the Crucified One, was honoured with Paradise (Luke 23:40-43).