Christmas Epistle: Amazing progress has already been made in the field of technology, in the modern world, although there are many serious challenges as well
"Only education and scientific progress cannot help us get closer to God - it is necessary to obtain spiritual purity," says the Christmas Epistle of the Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II.
According to the Epistle, amazing progress has already been made in the field of technology, in the modern world, although there are many serious challenges as well.
"Indeed, a new era began in the 1990s, when the Internet was spread all over the world. Amazing progress has already been made in the field of technology, in the modern world, although there are many serious challenges as well, which make us think that we, as part of the already common space on earth, will either improve our lives or face insurmountable obstacles.
The solution, of course, in our view, is the only one: the most important focus must be shifted by all to man, and everything must be done to bring to the forefront the values which bring mankind closer to the Creator;
Life or death - this choice is faced by the whole mankind today. We have not had to take such a large-scale and comprehensive step before.
“Choose life," the apostle tells us.
For believers, this means keeping the commandments and be like the Lord, living for someone else to the glory of God, so that we can later become part of the kingdom of heaven and be with God forever.
For atheists, however, such thinking is incomprehensible and unacceptable because they rely on the formulation: I believe in what I see and I do not believe in what is invisible. That is why you do not believe in God, nor in the existence of our soul, nor in immortality; However, those who believe that death is the end of everything, in many cases, do not shy away from achieving prosperity by any means”, reads the epistle.
