Main news for 12 January 2019

So who is really man: the dust or the image of God? Or one does not contradict at all the other? God calls directly the fallen man dust, by indicating to him that his fate is to return unto dust, where he was taken. What is that - humiliation as punishment for the fall? It does not seem: because man was really created from dust, as well as, by the word of the biblical writer, "the smallest specks of dust" form the entire universe. In this case what have then changed for man after the fall? First of all in the eye strike a certain fatalism of all that happening. The fate of man is to return to the dust, another one now is not given. It was always like this? The biblical story if not direct, then indirectly according to the context makes it clear, that not always, that the return in the dust was not before inevitable for man. What thus changed? The dust is simply the nature, nothing more nothing less. The cycle of deaths and births is the distinctive peculiarity of the natural cycles. And now, man is just a part of nature, in the same way or almost in the same way as any other one. And before that? Before, perhaps, everything was different: the spiritual principle in man prevailed over the natural, and the return "unto dust" was not inevitable for him. And now, as we see, the natural in him prevails over the spiritual. That is maybe why and the ground does not want any more to give him its fruits: the submission of the nature to the spirit is understandable and natural, but from what the nature would have begun to submit itself to nature? Like this man changes after the fall. Before the fall he was, in the first place and primarily, a spirit, and only after animal. Now, after the fall, he became first of all and primarily animal, and the spirit remained as much as allows it that his animal nature.