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topum ([personal profile] topum) wrote2016-09-13 02:46 pm

Stairs and bell

The stairs



The bell



Simonopetra Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece

This is how it looks from the outside.

[identity profile] beautesauvage13.livejournal.com 2016-09-13 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)

True. 


But death isn't cheated because the body dies and does not continue on.  The soul leaves the body to carry on wherever it goes.  Body is still dead though. 


Athena

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-09-13 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
They believe that the body will be resurrected though. The very ending of their creed is "I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen." Like Jesus was resurrected together with his body, they believe people will be too in the end. Those will be 'renewed' bodies but they will be their bodies nonetheless.