This test is a study guide that can only provide some preliminary information for a personal encounter with Christ. The purpose of human life is not just to learn about Christ, but to know Christ, to get to know Him, and to fellowship with Him.
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1. Which of the following events during Christ's earthly ministry was the focal point of our salvation?
Correct answer: №4Correct!Educational materials: The Resurrection of ChristComment:"He was buried, and that He rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures...If it is preached of Christ that He rose from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen; and if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain....As in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive, each in his own order: the first fruits of Christ, then those of Christ, at his coming"(1 Corinthians 15:4), (12-14,22-23)
Venerable Maximus the Confessor: "He who learns the mystery of the Cross and the tomb will also know the essential meaning of all things... He who penetrates still deeper than the Cross and the tomb, and is initiated into the mystery of the resurrection, will know the ultimate purpose for which God created all things from the beginning."
St Gregory the Theologian: "On this day the great Christ is called up from the dead to whom He has laid hold of. On this day He repelled the sting of death, broke the gloomy gates of a dismal hell, and granted freedom to souls. On this day, having risen from the tomb, He appeared to the people for whom He was born, died and was raised from the dead."
Vladimir Lossky: "Christ took upon Himself our nature... in order to resolve the tragedy of human freedom, to bridge the gap between God and human beings by bringing the gap into the interior of His Person, in whom there is no room for any gap... In His inexpressible kenosis, the God-Man incorporates Himself into the corrupt reality, exhausting it, purifying it from within by His ungrasping will. This voluntary incorporation of Himself into the conditions of fallen humanity must lead to death on the Cross, to the descent into hell... St Maximus teaches that the work of salvation involves three degrees which Christ has successively restored to nature: being, well-being and eternal existence. The first is achieved by the Incarnation, the second by the intactness of the earthly volition that led to the Cross, the third by the intactness of the natural, revealed in the Resurrection."
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