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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." John 1:1-4
To live, one must die to self and to the world. But this is impossible unless we embrace Christ the Redeemer, that we may share in his death and in his life. "For (as Paul writes in Rom. 6:7-8) one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him."
The effect of the fall of man is apparent in the degradation of men’s relationships with God, with one another, and with the rest of creation. For every faculty of their being has been utterly altered: their minds have become depraved and dull, their volition perverted, their hearts hardened, their eyes blinded, their ears stopped and their tongues inflamed – “as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they...
