Theodoulos, or the Servant of God
for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 2:10).
4, 12).
Lamb of God! A mysterious book, therefore His book. He compiled it before the creation of the world and promised to sign it with His innocent Blood. This is a book of the fate of the entire human race and His fate. Thus it pleased the Lamb of God, in accordance with the desire of His beloved Father and the Holy Spirit: to confuse His own fate as a Man with the fate of mankind. What horror of humiliation, and what glory of love, which surpasses reason!
Fate is not the meaningless samsara, the cycle of life, nor the merciless karma of India, which knows neither forgiveness nor the Forgiver. Both samsara and karma came from the design of the spirit of malice,
murderers from the beginning [
20], possibly the dancer of Shiva [
21], in order to obscure the Father of light and love from the intelligent eyes of men like thick smoke. For there is no saviour either from samsara or from karma, since the gods themselves, according to Indian philosophy, revolve in their cycle, as with the ancient Greeks everything revolves on the spindle of Ananka.
22].
Quite different is the Christian fate. And another thing is the book of the destinies of people and nations. This book is not held in the hands of Nemesis [
23] blindfolded, and the all-seeing God is the Father of light, love, mercy and compassion. When a person comes to his senses and turns to repentance, He erases his "karma" and gives him an impulse for a new beginning, for a new life.
Alas, India does not yet know of God the Father, nor of the God of love, nor of the God of forgiveness, brighter than samsara and stronger than karma. It will be impossible to know about Him except through Him through Whom we, Christians, have learned about Him – His name is Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the sacrificial Lamb of God's love for the entire human race.
Lux.
10, 17.