The goal of Orthodox Spirituality is the perfection of the believer by his/her union with God in Christ. As man/woman climbs toward this peak, he/she simultaneously moves toward union with Christ and the knowledge of Him by experience, which also means his/her deification. This is a state that represents the cleansing of all passions and the winning of all the virtues.
Thus a certain level of perfection is reached and culminates in love. Spirituality describes the manner in which the Christians can go forward from the cleansing of one passion, to the cleansing of another, and the same to the acquiring of the different virtues. Orthodox Spirituality presents the process of a Christian’s progress on the road to perfection in Christ, by the cleansing of passions and the winning of the virtues, a process which takes place in a certain order.
What is Orthodox Spirituality and what is it Goal? See Galatians 3:28 3:20 2 Corinthians 4: 11 1 Corinthians 7: 8 Romans 8: 15 Ephesians 3: 16-17 Colossians 3:3 John 14: 23 1 John 3:24 etc.
Orthodoxy has preferred always to use the terms ‘life in Christ’, ‘life in Spirit’, ‘the spiritual life’, and the ‘life in God’ to describe the life of the Christian in union with God, regardless of the level of this life. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Gal. And those who have are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like…… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish…. Paul Says: “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. It is an ascetic and pious struggle against sin through repentance, prayer, fasting and participation in the sacramental life of the Church. Spirituality may be defined as the life in and with the Holy Spirit.
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