Examples of using First-created in English and their translations into Serbian
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Morally, the first-created man was pure and innocent.
Christ's victory is the only victory in which all humanity can rejoice, from the first-created to the last.
What happened to the first-created people is happening to us.
This intuition leaves the scientific data of the moral world behind in view of the first-created paradisiacal world.
I have lost my first-created beauty and comeliness; and now I lie naked, and I am ashamed.
Could there be any clearer teaching of the state of the first-created world before the transgression of Adam?
Death and spiritual necrosis(i.e. physical and spiritual death)is the outcome of the disobedience of the first-created.
St. Simeon the New Theologian likewise speaks clearly of first-created Adam in Paradise, and his final state in the future age.
Thus, the first-created man's fall into sin was the initial source of occult practice, the basis of magic and the search for secret knowledge.
The beautiful things of this world are only hints of that beauty with which the first-created world was filled, as Adam and Eve saw it.
He thereby breaks the first-created bond between his personality and his common human nature, destroying its unity and as it were walling off from it his own small individual part.
According to the Holy Fathers,it is possible for us to know something of this first-created world, but this knowledge is not accessible to natural science.
The true knowledge of Adam and the first-created world- as mush as is useful for us to know- is accessible only in God's revelation and in the Divine vision of the Saints.
This is why even Orthodox priests are extremely vague about the Orthodox teaching of Adam and the first-created world and blindly accept whatever science says about these things.
Seraphim,"The most important question which is raised for Orthodox theology by the modern theory of evolution is the nature of man, andin particular the nature of the first-created man Adam.".
But in actual fact, according to the Holy Fathers,the nature of that first-created world was quite different from our world, as I will show below.
In the meantime, he made his own in-depth study, both of the scientific theory of evolution andof the teaching of the Holy Fathers regarding creation, the first-created world and the firstcreated man.
If the first-created man's authority over the world could only be realized in the presence of his personal harmony with God, now man was trying to reach perfection"through the back door.".
Seraphim learned the revelation of God Himself regarding the creation of the universe and the nature of the first-created world, as passed on through the Scriptures and the God-bearing Holy Fathers throughout the centuries.
When the first-created people fell away in spirit from their Creator, the body, hitherto subject to the spirit and obtaining its directions through the soul, ceased to be subordinate to it and began to strive to dominate it.
St. Gregory the Theologian suggests, giving a symbolic interpretation of the"garments of skins" with which God clothed Adam and Eve after their transgression,that the flesh of our present human body is different from the flesh of first-created Adam.
So far is Thomas Aquinas from the true Orthodox vision of the first-created world that he understands it, as do modern"Christian evolutionists," solely from the viewpoint of this fallen world;
In general, it is difficult if not impossible for contemporary man to imagine man's true condition in Paradise, a condition that joined together moral purity, clarity of mind,the perfection of first-created nature, and nearness to God, with a general spiritual childlikeness.
When the first-created people fell away in spirit from their Creator, the body, hitherto subject to the spirit and obtaining its directions through the soul, ceased to be subordinate to it and began to strive to dominate it.
I have quoted all these passages from a heterodox authority, not in order to argue over details of Adams' life in paradise, butmerely to show how far one corrupts the marvelous patristic vision of Adam and the first-created world when one approaches it with the wisdom of this fallen world.
He returned immortality to people, returned that which was lost in Paradise, and gave us yet more; andthey say that Adam was born from death and the entire first-created world was filled with death, destruction, and ruination as something wholly natural.
By this expression"was borne"(the Hebrew word used here has the following meaning:"to embrace everything with oneself as a bird with its wings spread out embraces and warms its fledglings"),the action of the Spirit of God upon the first-created matter should be understood as the imparting to it of the living power which was necessary for its formation and development.
