The action of evil in the world continues, man again partakes of sin, eats the forbidden fruit, and evil distorts it again and again. World history repeats itself in the history of every person.

As by the disobedience of one many have become sinners, so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous.

Rome. 5, 19

You are free; and if you want to perish, then your nature is changeable.

St. Macarius the Great

Satan, a creature endowed with free will, could be defeated only by a free creature, and this victory had to be won by Adam to defeat evil in paradise, as a man, and thus to realize his God-manhood. But he didn't. The Lord could, as He can, by His omnipotence, forbid evil to be present in the world, and simply destroy it by His perfect word. But He acted differently, because He gave free will to the living thing that He created, both to angels and to man. And once God has given a person freedom, He never takes it away.

God saves man in a different way: He Himself becomes Man in this world, takes upon Himself human nature in its entirety, in order to conquer evil not as God, but precisely as Man, and then to give each person the opportunity to commune with God again in order to win again. John defeats Satan in all the power of His human nature, in all the fullness of its communion with God, so that each of us too may be given the opportunity to overcome evil again and again by our free will, partaking of good.

But the memory of the sinful Adam lives in us, and this memory again and again pushes us to deceive God, to sin against Him, to touch the forbidden fruit, to become self-sufficient in ourselves.

We are much more involved in good than we are distorted by evil. Evil, which has no essence, which is only a consequence of the illness of the human soul, is not able to completely defeat man, for whom good is natural and evil is unnatural. Therefore, every Christian has the strength to overcome evil, and, therefore, in man himself, good is obliged to defeat evil, if he makes an effort to do so. A person cannot justify himself by the fact that he is unable to cope with himself, because he has a huge reserve of God's help and his own strength in order to overcome any sin and defeat Satan in himself.

This is the path that everyone should follow. The Lord leads us along this path, giving us the opportunity to return to paradise again, to accept again and again what was given to man in paradise, where he dwelt in all his beauty, in all his harmony, so that this beauty, perceived as a gift, would become his property, his nature, his truly indelible image of God.

Great was Adam's sorrow after his expulsion from Paradise, but when he saw his son Abel killed by his brother Cain, his grief became even greater, and his soul was tormented, and he wept, and thought: "From me shall come forth and multiply nations, and all shall suffer, and live in enmity, and kill one another." And this sorrow was as great as the sea.

Pdp. Silouan the Athonite

Each person has his own special gifts. As the Apostle Paul writes: "And some God has ordained in the Church, first, apostles, secondly, prophets, thirdly, teachers; furthermore, to others He gave miraculous powers, as well as the gifts of healing, help, guidance, and various tongues. Are all the Apostles? Are all prophets? Are they all teachers? Are all miracle workers? Does everyone have the gifts of healing? Does everyone speak in tongues? Are they all interpreters? (1 Corinthians 12:2830). All people are very different. They are created in such a way that everyone needs everyone, so that one without the other could not realize himself as a man in his entirety.

Humanity was created as a family, called to live a common human life, constantly helping each other and, in the words of the Apostle Paul, bearing each other's burdens in order to fulfill the law of Christ (cf. Gal. 6:2). But the life of each person is inextricably linked with the life of all people, because humanity was conceived by God not just as a family, but as a single Church organism. Thus, for example, marriage is the realization of this fullness of humanity, when two become one being, two flesh is one (cf. Matt. 19:5).