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Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol: Repentance Covers Our Inability to Keep the Commandments
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol says that Christ calls anyone who wishes to follow Him to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Him. He states that everyone can do this in theory, but in practice no one can keep God's commandments perfectly. The Metropolitan explains that external observance of rules, laws, and commandments is not what brings a person before God or makes them a child of God.
Rather, when a person repents, their weakness, sin, failure, and the good they should have done but could not are covered.
Key moments
- Christ says whoever wants to follow him must deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow him.
- Everyone can follow Christ in theory, but in practice no one can keep God's commandments perfectly.
- External observance of rules, laws, and commandments is not what brings us before God or makes us succeed as children of God.
- When a person repents, their weakness, sin, missing the mark, and the good they should have done but could not are covered.
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