Jesus and Christ. Artur Zadikyan

field). Death is not the end. In fact, death is the beginning, another stage of maturation. At the moment of physical death, your spirit will travel to the spiritual world where it will continue to learn and evolve. Death is a necessary step in your development, just as birth is. There is even a religious belief that someday, after your death, your spirit and body will be reunited, never to be separated again. According to the teachings of the Orthodox Church, the ascension of Christ is the highest degree of glorification of human nature, which in this ascension was elevated by God above all angelic titles. All religious tenets, much less their interpretations, are an article of faith. And the object of faith will always remain an object of faith, and for the most part interpreted by us as it pleases our souls. Let us examine such an article of faith as the Second Coming. Jesus himself spoke of the Second Coming of the Messiah to bring about the Last Judgment, but it is not entirely clear, even if we are certain that it was he who was quoted, whether he was speaking of himself. There is a certain idea evident, and in the whole Christian teaching, that man is opposed to certain mythical gods, often terrible and evil, and they are the heavenly elite, and man is insignificant. The doctrine of Christ proclaims the hidden rebellion of man as a representative of a kind of thinking beings against the tyranny of heaven. And it has quite earthly manifestation, when equality with God is preached. Don't you find here a parallel with modern socio-political declarations?