The Christian as a normal persontranslated

The blessing of information, in any form, nowadays, has also brought the exchange of opinions and theories, so that, most of the time, questions such as: What is right and what is wrong are created? What is reasonable and what is unreasonable? What is normal and what is unnatural?

By Fr. Andreas Agathokleous

Antony the Great said that "a time will come when people will be mad, and as soon as they see someone who is sane, they will attack him saying⸱ 'you are mad', because he will not be like them"[1]. Are we in this age, with so much confusion that exists?

The belief that "the truth is in everyone and therefore can only bind the one who expresses it", leads to the admission that the truth is subjective and not objective.

For the Christian, the Truth is a Person, Jesus Christ, who said: "I am the truth" (Jn. 14,6) and therefore the knowledge of the Truth is achieved to the degree that one knows, that is, he is united with his Lord. This union as ontological and not theoretical, as real and not psychological or imaginary, leads to normal life. Christ as a perfect man is the only normal man.

If the…