By Evan Kardaras, Sub-Deacon in Sydney, Australia. (Article written in July 2017) If we go to heaven will we still have a body? If so what will this body look like? These are some questions that may come to mind when contemplating eternal life. These questions are not new. Believers and non-believers alike have pondered... Continue Reading →
The Immortal Soul
By Evan Kardaras, Sub-Deacon in Sydney, Australia. (Article written in July 2017) This article is a response to an incorrect teaching that has been circulating within the Coptic Orthodox Church. This teaching states that the human soul is the natural result of the union of the spirit and body. When a human person dies, the... Continue Reading →
Raised a Spiritual Body
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. Some have imagined that in the resurrection our human bodies will be spiritual, like the angels, and even that the body of our Lord Jesus was of this nature, and was no longer physical after his resurrection. The passage of Scripture... Continue Reading →
Sin, Death and the Fall
By Fr. Peter Farrington – St. George Ministry – Coptic Mission Communities in the UK. I would like to consider the dogmatic aspects of Sin, Death and the Fall which are the basis of man’s estrangement from God, and the cause of our needing a Saviour. We will look at these different aspects in turn, and... Continue Reading →