The majestic concept of God as an entity encompassing the past, present, and future inspires profound reflections on the nature of divine wisdom and justice. The introduction to this teaching immerses us in a world where time ceases to be a barrier, and history unfolds before God’s eyes as a unified, unadorned tapestry.
The idea of divine predestination and the freedom of human choice can be reconciled if the notions of divine foreknowledge and predestination are clearly distinguished. That is, God may possess complete knowledge of the future, but that knowledge does not impose a specific choice on a person nor nullify their freedom. As noted in one source:
The text reveals that the darkening of the mind develops step by step and manifests within the soul through a gradual loss of attention to spiritual responsibilities and the testing effect of passions, which eventually obscures true spiritual perception.
The role of the Holy Scripture is that it becomes for the believer an inexhaustible source of divine wisdom and spiritual inspiration, guiding one in the pursuit of perfection through prayer and repentance. Reading the Holy Word is seen as a living dialogue with Christ himself, through which new truths are revealed that foster the purification of the soul and continuous spiritual growth. In this process, prayer helps to establish a close connection with God, and repentance serves as a means of rejecting the former, “decayed” state, enabling the emergence of a new self, renewed by the grace of God.
Mythological and religious representations view the transition from day to night not merely as a change between periods of light and darkness, but as an expression of a profound metaphysical dualism: light and dark, complete and incomplete, which symbolically conveys the processes of creative act and divine ordering of existence.