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Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol: Use every circumstance for the Kingdom
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol teaches that each person should use their particular circumstances, wealth, poverty, youth, old age, education, or simplicity, for spiritual benefit. He states that Christ did not come to change social status, making the poor rich or the rich poor, but to enable every person to use what they have been given to enter the Kingdom of God.
The metropolitan lists pairs of conditions: the rich should utilize their wealth, the poor the talents of poverty, the young their youth, the old their old age, the educated their knowledge, and the uneducated their simplicity. All are to be directed toward spiritual growth and entry into God's Kingdom.
Key moments
- If you are rich, utilize your wealth.
- If you are poor, utilize the talents of your poverty.
- If you are young, utilize your youth; if you are old, utilize your old age.
- If you are educated, utilize your knowledge; if you are beautiful, utilize your generosity.
- All these are to be utilized spiritually.
- Christ did not come to make the poor rich or the rich poor.
- Christ came so that each person uses their given circumstances to enter the kingdom of God.
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