1.2. The Creation of Man; the Garden of Paradise

My work is the man, My people. My work is to bring the man back to the Father. Oh, I have always asked you and much and I have asked you to take great care of My coming down as word on to the earth and to help Me, for I have told you that it is not I but the man who has to come. All the creature has been waiting for the man, not for Me, for I am, but the man is not. Oh, the man cannot learn to be, to take life from Me and to put it upon him and to believe that he can do My will. Nothing is beyond man’s power if he wants to believe that I am. I can, but I cannot without man. I can do everything that I have to do, but only through the man with a measureless faith and the same it has to be with his humility.

I made the man for Me. I made him and I gave him life, and then I told him to work it and to keep it, and to be able to rest with My love in man, in My house, My people. I told him, when I made him, to have life with obedience, for this means for the man to love Me; Me and not himself.

excerpt from The Word of God at the first Sunday of the Lent, of the Orthodoxy of March 20, 2005

I gave life to the man after I had made him. I opened My mouth and I breathed over him and he received life, and he received soul, and I told him to work and to keep his life that I gave him and to listen as I told him. However, even from the very beginning he received the spirit of disobedience, God’s adversary, and then the man was not able to love Me and did no longer work and did no longer keep his life. I gave him life and I gave it to him to be beautiful and to listen to My will and to love Me, because I did not make him for another reason.

Oh, man, My sufferance! If I give you life then when you are born of the man by the man’s will, then you should grow and know Me then through the creatures and to seek to listen to someone who knows from God what life is, where does it come from, what it does with it, what its house does, and then to become obedient to the One Who gives life, for this means My love in you, man without knowledge from heaven. Blessed is the one who, hearing Me, opens himself and wins over his life for himself, for the man’s life is lost even since he took the step of disobedience in his thought and with his word, and then with his deed.

Oh, the word of God is a great mystery that says that God made his work into male and female and called him man and then He called him life. Oh, the man separated from My happiness in him and from his happiness in Me. I was his happiness, and he was My happiness, and then he has no longer listened to the word full of life to be able to work it for himself and to keep it so that God, the Creator, may have where to bow His head for His rest. Neither the man has rest and nor God, for God and man’s rest from the beginning was spoiled, and I can hardly seek to find a man with obedience for the commandment of life, for it is the obedience that the man violated, and as a result, the life died in him, and he has been feeding with difficulty and sweat on the fruits of the earth out of which he was made, and since then he has not been resting anymore, for the rested man is the one who does not break the commandment of life and its work.

excerpt from The Word of God at the first Sunday of the Lent, of the Orthodoxy of March 20, 2005

Oh, it is a great mystery My word, which says that God made His work male and female and called him man and then gave him life! Two thousand years ago, I removed the seal of this mystery, and by listening to the Father, I became a Man without sin, for My mother, the Virgin, gave Me her body of flesh as My dwelling place, and from her I received My life that was put in her by My Father, and I have showed the man the mystery of life, the mystery of obedience, the mystery of incorruptibility, the fruit of the holy faith, in those who believed that life is from God and it is born by the word and that afterwards it is called man, and that it is called the dwelling place of the man’s life. Amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the first Sunday of the Lent, of the Orthodoxy of March 20, 2005

When I created the man, I made him into My image and after My likeness. I looked at Myself, man, when I made the man. As a master looks into the mirror to make his own image, the same way I looked at Me when I made the man. Then I breathed a spirit of life out of Me over him, and this is how God created the man into His image and after His likeness.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, the first day (The feast of the descending of the Holy Spirit) of June 14, 2003

I come from heaven down on earth to pass the man from death to life, for there is no one to teach the man the life, its way and its truth.

excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, the first day (The feast of the descending of the Holy Spirit) of June 14, 2003

The heaven and the earth, and after that, all creation on it, all the beauty, all the life, and they all came to life, and the life came out and spoke, when the man was placed on the earth after God had made him. Then the earth gave them all a body, and the heaven gave them all life and a purpose. The heaven and the earth, and for them, the man. Amen. The man, and for him the heaven and the earth. Amen, amen, amen.

excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the Saint John, the Baptizer of January 20, 2002

How beautiful the Epiphany of the earth was, when it came out of waters and received the man on it, everything that was made for the man, and then the man, to rule with love over everything that was made out of My love, at My word for man. I worked out so much creation for the man, so much beauty, so much harmony, which has been waiting for the man to give him speech, to give him purpose, to give him a perfect man so that the creation might rejoice over the man for whom it was made.

excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Baptism (Epiphany) of January 19, 2002