Behind the shop windowtranslated

By Fr Dimitrios Bokus

In Christ's beautiful parable about the rich man and the poor Lazarus, the great difficulty of man to accept things that escape his direct control, either through logic or through his senses, is evident. And this applies especially to what belongs to the other world, the unseen, which does not fall under direct observation or irrefutable logical proof, i.e. the only accessible and acceptable methods that provide certified knowledge to man.

Teachings about supernatural realities, about heavenly or hypochthonic appearances, about divine revelation or demonic delusion, are treated with particular skepticism (Sunday Luke V).

Faced with this difficulty, many end up with the worst solution, rejection. What cannot be verified in the usual ways that apply to the physical world, goes to the sidelines. They don't exist. Or they are not worth bothering with. They are considered a figment of bygone eras, the fruit of man's weakness in the face of the unruly forces of the universe. They are ridiculed today, in the age of science.

Not only those concerning the existence of God are rejected, but also those concerning his world...