The Essence of Christianity

A good summary of Christianity is the one we find in the Epistle of Paul to the Romans, Chapter 12. There are many teachings in the New Testament that have not penetrated World's Christianity after 2000 years. One of them is about Christian Society: Acts, chapter 4, etc.

But there is no summary of Christianity more essential than the greek word "metanoia", which Jesus shouted in greek, whenever he arrived to a town, and before pronouncing his sermons in arameic, like the Sermon of the Mountain (Mathew 5, 6 and 7). The word "metanoia" means "let's go beyond everything known."

If "one is the way, the truth and the life, then it is summarized in living constantly in "metanoia".

The serious student of this transcendental teaching about true life, will soon understand that "metanoia" is a synonim for "Unitary Perception". On top of that "metanoia" means "the necessary first step toward Resurrection (Anastasis).

It's probably unnecessary to say that all this has nothing to do with known things, like going to church, or buying X-mas trees, or chocolate eggs for Easter. We are talking of moving from fact to fact (from the unknown to the unknown), in a solitary and silent way, (even when vitally joyous). This is the path of the monk without a monastery, since "monk" means "alone" (all one), and monasteries are full of people. The solitary monk is not influenced by any product of human thought (nations, state, corporations, ideology, belief, philosophy, metaphysics, etc.)

RFG