Today we live in a world, where
many people do not believe in a higher being, in God, or in an afterlife.
However, a Christian understanding states that the created world and the
uncreated world relate and they complete each other. Dumitru Staniloae explains:
“There are two planes of
existence: one eternal, existence of itself; and one temporal, created by that
eternal being that has the power to create the second plane from nothing, and
not as its natural offspring. If there were only the divine form of existence,
it would lack omnipotence and generosity. If there were only the worldly or
pantheistic form, subordinated to laws that do not freely bring happiness to
another form of existence, that would again represent an incomplete form of
existence”[1].
[1]
Staniloae, Dumitru, The Holy Trinity – In
the Beginning There was Love, (Brookline, Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2012),
p. 6
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