God is He (we know He is a "He" because Jesus referred to Him as a Father) Who made the world and Who made everything in it visible and invisible. He is our Father in heaven. Of course, one may argue that that is a very limited argument for someone who does not believe. So the question is: How can one at least listen to the arguments that God exists; in our day, perhaps that argument may come from science itself. If it indeed a revolutionary experience to see that in our century, science has resurrected God beyond anybody's expectations. Let us what they have to say:

The First Ecumenical Synod was victorious against the heresy of Arius. Thereupon they were giving thanks to our Lord and Savior, having the Saint in great regard; not only the people and the hierarchs marveled and honored him but also the Emperor to a considerable degree. He besought Saint Spyridon to always entreat God on his behalf. Since the Synodical sessions had finished, Saint Spyridon went directly to his See and homeland.

ON DECEMBER 12th OUR HOLY ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH COMMEMORATES THE HOLY AND GOD-BEARING FATHER SPYRIDON THE WONDER-WORKER, BISHOP OF TRIMYTHOUS IN CYPRUS

Spyridon, our Holy Father among the Saints, the boast of the inhabited world, and the adornment of the faithful, flourished during the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great (306-337 A.D.). He hailed from the famous island of Cyprus. The Saint's virtue and divine conduct were such that his accomplishments shone forth brightly throughout the inhabited world, leaving no adult Christian who is not acquainted with his life. This is the same God-bearing Holy Father who had taken part in the First Ecumenical Synod (325 A.D.). Who has not heard of his renowned demonstration at Nicaea?  But his participation at that First Synod shall be triumphantly recounted later.

The Mystery (Sacrament) of Repentance is an act of reconciliation with the Church body. It is the possibility, granted by the Church to those who have alienated themselves from the body because of sin, so as to be able to return to it. Repentance is then a complete about-turn or a change of life. It is a sacrament of regeneration as it establishes for us a share in the death and Resurrection of Christ.

According to Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos "The incarnation (taking human flesh) of the Son and Logos/Word of God shows how Good, Wise, Just and Powerful God is: good, because He did not overlook the weakness of the creature, but gave him a helping hand; wise, because He found the most fitting solution for that which seemed impossible; just, because after the fall He did not form another man to wrestle with the devil, nor did He forcibly detach man from death, but made him the victor by assuming the death and suffering of the flesh Himself; powerful, because He was able to do this, to become man while at the same time he would be true God, consubstantial with the Father and the Holy Spirit (Saint John of Damascus).

With death comes the separation of the soul from the body. The body returns to the earth from which it was taken. It decomposes but it is not lost. The time will come when it will be resurrected, spiritualized and made incorruptible, at the time of the just judgment. And then it will be reunited with the soul to be judged along with the soul. In the meantime, the soul which was separated through death, from the body, lives in a middle state. It undergoes the Particular Judgment. "It is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes the judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). This means that immediately after death the soul is judged individually. It remains after this particular judgment until the Final Judgment, at the Second Coming of Christ, having a foretaste of paradise or of hell.