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Jesus said to his disciples, “They will lay hands on you and persecute you, deliver you to synagogues, and imprison you, and will drag you before kings and rulers for my name’s sake. This will happen to you to bear witness. Therefore, remember not to think in advance how to defend yourself, for I will give you eloquence and wisdom that not all your opponents will be able to resist or contradict. You will also be betrayed by your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and some of you will be killed. Everyone will hate you for my name. But not a hair will be lost in your head. If you persevere, you will save your life. “

Jehovah’s Witnesses, from their founder Charles Taze Russell (1852 – 1916), the Christian Science sect founded by Mary Ann Morse Baker, the Federation of Families for World Peace, the Unification Church and others appear as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the Yong Mung Moon sect (1920 – 2011), moons, and others also capture orthodox Christians. Like mushrooms after the rain, sects appear, various false prophets, teachings, and teachings, such as the “Grail Message,” “Family,” various charismatics and leaders, Scientologists, the “New Age Movement,” cults, occultism, magic, and various Eastern religions. 

After a long introduction, we realize the meaning of the words of the Lord Jesus: “Beware lest they deceive you” (Luke 21: 8). The proverb says, “Curiosity is the shortest way to hell.” There is truth hidden in it. Although the Lord Jesus does not explicitly speak the word “curiosity,” he points out heightened vigilance. “Many will come and say on my behalf, ‘It’s me and,’ The time is near. Do not follow them “(Luke 21: 8). Curiosity disrupts reason and free will, underestimates vigilance, evokes pleasure, longs for sensation, and when one is not careful, does not have enough vigilance, the necessary graces, commits sin. In the Book of Genesis, we hear about Eve’s curiosity. And then about the fall, even the fall of Adam. The construction of the tower in Babylon, King David’s son, and others are a memento for the individual and the whole nation. After falling into sin, man is prone to evil.

Jesus warns us not to be vigilant, not lie to false prophets, even though they will speak on his behalf. He who believes in the love of Christ, the power of his teaching, whoever acquires the truth of Jesus, feels in Jesus’ words: “Beware” and “Do not follow them” (Luke 21: 8), that God is the Lord of all things in the world. The future belongs to God. One day, everyone will see for themselves. We know quite a lot about witnesses today. For many of them have returned to Christ. Many had to overcome the finished hell on their return. Such brothers and sisters need more attention. On the contrary, not to despise them is to give them a helping hand with love, as Jesus did. Worse are cases of sects that we have not yet mapped. We do not know exactly about their content of teachings, practices, way of life, attitudes to things, events, and the like. Many of us know little about Freemasonry. What do we know about New Age?

Jesus’ warning words do not lose their temporality. On the contrary. Even unhealthy curiosity will do its thing. The end of the Church Year is a challenge for us not to remain silent as a wave of sects spreads around us. We need to know them and help others avoid their settlements or the lost and deceived return. 

When some said of the temple that it was adorned with beautiful stones and memorial gifts, Jesus said, “There will come days when, from what you see, there will be no stone left on the stone; everything will be broken down. “They asked him,” Teacher, when will it be and what will be the sign when it starts? ” He replied, “Be careful not to be misled. For many will come and say in my name, ‘It is I’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Do not follow them. And when you hear about wars and riots, don’t be afraid! He said to them, “A nation will rise up against a nation, and a kingdom against a kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in places there will be famine and pestilence; there will be terror and great signs in heaven.

If one wants to grow spiritually, one must make sacrifices. One’s spiritual development must be redeemed by renunciation and sacrifice. One paradox is our death. Then we lose everything we have acquired for ourselves and what we have built. We lose all material and spiritual values. The words of Job are fulfilled: “I am gone out of the womb of my mother, and I will return naked. God gave, God took, let God’s name be magnified “(Job 1:21)! And just when we lose everything, then everything we have done uncertainly for ourselves and our neighbors in God’s name, we gain. Only what had before God’s value will serve us as a reward and what we have neglected to do, not done, or done wrong, will serve to punish.

Therefore, the behavior of a widow’s wife is an address to us. “In her poverty, she gave everything she had, all her livelihood” (Mark 12:44). We know that not everyone has a gross wallet or a bank account. Not everyone has great talent, but we all have the opportunity to give much, often, and perhaps everything when the motive and engine of our action is love of God and people.It is right that we can fight the sin of pride, greed or envy.

Vladislav Przybyš tells the story of a Jew, Jankiel, who bought a horse carriage at the market. On the way home, the horse was frightened, and in fear Jankiel made a promise: “Lord, God, of hosts! If you save me, I will sell a horse at the nearest market and donate the money to the synagogue … “Then the horse slowed down and stopped. During the nearest market, Jankiel stands on the market holding his horse’s bridle and a rooster under his armpit.” will you sell a horse? ” He asks the farmer. “I will only sell a horse with this rooster,” the Jew notes. “And what kind of horse do you want and what kind of rooster do you want?” “A rooster costs thirty rubles and a horse thirty kopecks.”

We realize this is a joke. Don’t such jokes happen in our lives? But yes! Why is it so difficult for us to say goodbye to something when God asks us to? For us, the example of a woman is a memento with which we identify. Because we understand Jesus’ address as relevant to each of us today as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. It is true that a widow woman, in the eyes of many Christians, would not stand even today, because she gave everything that she supposedly exaggerated, and that God does not ask so much of us, they would not. Still, one thing is true, and that is the words of praise of address. It is a challenge for us that even though God will not ask us much to do it now, with our hearts.

Alternatively, as of today, we will be more attentive to God’s promptings. God goes through history. He compiles the history of salvation from the most insignificant things and people and deeds. From slices of bread, a glass of water, from a penny of a poor widow. It’s all small, small, and yet it creates a majestic mosaic. Two pennies of a poor widow fell in love with God’s eyes, while they were silent about the millions of Herod he had spent building the same temple. God looks at the heart. Yes, everything belongs to God.

 From the Christian faith, the most important events in humanity’s history are elastically described in part in the Old Testament sources, but especially the New Testament. It is a known sequence: the first man – a paradise tree with a forbidden fruit – the first sin – the punishment for sin – the coming of Christ the Redeemer and Savior to Earth. Although the interrelationship and sequence of these events do not give the impression of impossibility, the fact is that the latter is a scientifically proven fact. It is not a problem for a lay Christian-believer to accept this sequence of events literally, as the sacred sources tell us. Still, a person who has mastered a certain amount of scientifically verified information feels a discrepancy between science and faith. The specific events conflict with the evolutionary principle; more precisely, they cannot be understood as a logical evolution product. We must objectively admit that this issue has not yet been explored on a theological level to rely on some official church hierarchy views. Therefore, all our following remarks and considerations should be understood only to contribute to the discussion and not as information about already generally accepted interpretations.

If the evolutionary principle is the real “Divine Technology” of creating the world and all in it, then there should be a possibility to incorporate the mentioned biblical events into the evolutionary scenario organically. Almost provocative questions also arise, for example, whether the person of Jesus Christ belongs to the evolutionary process or stands outside it. This is a problem that has been addressed by many prominent religious thinkers, such as Teilhard de Chardin, Gerd Theissen, and others. Sigurd Daecke gave his polemical article a direct title: Jesus Christ is the Light of Evolution.35)

The basic precondition for solving the indicated questions is translating the source into the “language,” which corresponds to the recipient’s knowledge level. We know that the language of religious books is, above all, metaphor and parable. When it comes to the sower who went out into the field to sow grain, it is clear – after all, Christ himself explained it – that it is neither a sower nor a grain, but something much more important. So if the sources of the Old Testament said of Adam and Eve, the tree with the forbidden fruit, the first sin and the punishment for it, it is clear that it has only a symbolic meaning; it expresses something significant, what really happened and what required a real and historically proven “intervention” of God-Creator, t. j. the coming of Christ to Earth. In connection with this problem, it is not uninteresting to point out that Pope John Paul II. does not mention the specifics of the first sin, but calls it a “mysterious sin,” and that Jesus Christ himself does not mention the events surrounding the fall of the first people anywhere in his messages.

When we think in this way, it is quite natural for us to shed light on the need and meaning of another important event, which, as if – in comparison with the action of God-Creator and God-Son – remained in seclusion. It is about sending the Holy Spirit, promised and sent so that with his help, we can gain a deeper understanding of the Old’s events, especially the New Testament. So we can ask, what have we actually found so far?

In fact, Teilhard de Chardin was the first of the religious thinkers to elevate evolution from a position of general contempt to the level of the Divine mechanism of world creation. However, his understanding of evolution is quite general and mystical; it does not allow his “scenario” to examine such specifics as first parents, their first sin, etc. From this point of view, G. Theissen’s interpretation is more acceptable to many intellectual believers.36) According to him, during the transition from biological systems to intellectual ones, something appeared that was contrary to God’s love, and that needed to be corrected. The determining factor in further evolution has been selected based on “strength,” based on a struggle in which the stronger wins. However, this process is not compatible with the principle of love with which the world was created, so a correction in the form of a message of love was needed. In this sense, the coming of Christ to Earth was the logical culmination of previous evolution. Accordingly, the person of Jesus Christ is a logical link in evolution.

However, even G. Theissen’s interpretation does not provide a sufficiently convincing and satisfactory correlation between science and biblical texts. Interestingly, a much more specific orientation can be provided here by the science from which we would least expect it, namely physics. Physic knows best how it works in the inanimate world and what has actually changed with the advent of Homo sapiens.

The knowledge is known from physics: when two physical objects meet (for example, two billiard balls), the more energetic they always lose part of their energy during the interaction, and the one who had less of it, in turn, gains it. It will never be the other way around, which can be convinced by experimentation or theoretical calculation. The law of conservation of energy would not prevent a situation in which particles with a lot of energy would take away from the particles of other particles, even the little they owned. However, this situation will never occur. Literally, this can be commented on so that nature always chooses the “more human” one from two possible alternatives, i.e., it clearly always prefers a “fraternal” division, resp. Until a complete exchange of “capital.” Thus, the inanimate world’s processes take place – in the figurative sense of the word – by the law of love. This is manifested in the fact that the real world’s objects seem to always indulge more in the other than in themselves when they interact with each other.

The man received the gift of thinking and free decision. When he interacted with another person, he could opt for a fraternal division or a division determined by egoism, that is, by preferring himself. Contrary to God’s expectations and will, the man opted for the second variant. He did it in the beginning, he did it later, and he does it now. Even as a learned Christian. In practice, it looks like when a rich entrepreneur meets a poor consumer, after the “interaction,” the rich are even richer and the poor even poorer. What did this selfish choice provide to man? The opportunity to become rich, powerful, and ruling. “You will be like God” – the snake of the first man tries, and he succumbed to temptation. And the role of women in this process? Many still encourage their men to earn as much money as possible, seek office, and rise above others. In general, we can say that the egoistic choice in mutual coexistence may have been the “first sin” committed not only by Adam and Eve but by the first people in general and by others, including us. This is probably the inheritance of the first sin. There were and are those who did not and do not commit this sin, but there are few of them. People’s selfish thinking in mutual “interactions” was and is the root cause of all conflicts, wars, hatred, anger, and suffering. If a man acted like inanimate nature in mutual relations, there would be no wars, disputes, lack of everything necessary, and humanity could really live in a “paradise.” Man has lost this paradise because he has misused God’s gift — thought and free will — for selfish purposes. The tragedy of this “sin” is most convincingly demonstrated in another. Let’s notice who we glorify after “interactions.” One who has given up something for the benefit of another, or one who has been able to benefit for himself or his loved ones? The “winner” is always glorified. Celebrated is the politician who can win more privileges for “his nation” at others’ expense. The duke who can destroy as many enemies as possible is acclaimed. This is how a man does, and it is clear that by doing so, he has so manipulated evolution that the whole world has literally called for his salvation and correction.

We are preparing for the end of the church year. A look into nature speaks of a new time of year, winter. We are not asked questions: Have we done everything about God? Did we give God everything we were obliged to give? Nature orphan. She gave us everything that was born. Like an echo, the word “everything” is brought to us today (Mark 12:44).

The last sentence of today’s Gospel emphasizes the meaning of the word everything when the Lord Jesus said words of praise about a woman – a poor widow: “In her poverty, she gave everything she had, all her livelihood” (Mark 12:44).

There is something of dignity in a woman’s gesture, which deprives the present man of courage—a consumer man who would like to take and not give anything on his own. The word “everything” to sacrifice “everything” today shocks and at least amazes. The person who chooses to do so today is considered a madman or a weirdo. Jesus evaluates it differently. Today’s gospel represents three categories of people.

First, they are the teachings of the Scriptures, the scribes, the people, the consumers. They want to take. We know that they demanded respect from others, honors, titles, first places … The second group of people gives a lot, but only enough to still have enough left for themselves. On the contrary, the third is a group of people who were enchanted by the word “everything.” They are the ones who share what they have, with the last piece of bread, which for God, for Jesus, for another man they give everything, like a woman, a widow of the gospel. She doesn’t share; she gives everything she has. The gospel wants to point us to two different attitudes when one gives only something and gives everything. And a woman widow? Her “two small coins, which is a quadrant” (Mark 12:42), did not help anyone. However, the woman did “only” what she considered the best, gave everything, and thus put her life in direct dependence on God. Jesus’ way speaks of dependence on the Father; Jesus calls this path the path of a true disciple, so the Gospel does not speak of social feeling, but of surrendering one’s life to God; God wants the heart of man. It is irresponsible, but it is not easy either.

What is a sacrifice? In everyday life, every gift for God is called a sacrifice or gift. When out of love for God, he consciously and voluntarily renounces pleasant and permissible things for his soul or his brothers’ good. What is the victim’s goal? What the victim costs us. Our own life has the highest price of sacrifice. This is how we understand death for Christ. For example, let’s remember the Auschwitz martyr Maximilian Kolbe, who went out of love for God to a bunker of hunger for his fellow prisoner Francisco.

A sacrifice of love to God can also be the renunciation of food, not only during Lent and Friday, the renunciation of an evening film on television, when I use the time for my family or read something for my soul. It is also a gift to give up the benefits that belong to me. Renunciation is to help us overcome our weaknesses, mistakes, or sins.

1. Visit the princess. Such an incident happened in England in ancient times: a certain princess heard different opinions about her principality’s inhabitants. Some praised them as good, merciful people. Others, on the other hand, had the opposite opinion. The princess decided to find out personally who was right. She therefore disguised herself as an ordinary woman, took a large basket in her hand, and walked through the surrounding villages and settlements. Walking from house to house asking for support. Some drove her away, using offensive words. Others gave her some leftover food, which they already wanted to throw away. She found real friends in only one poor cottage. Two older adults, a man and a woman, sat her at a warm room table. Then they gave her a plate of hot soup and a cake they had just removed from the oven.

The next day, the princess invited all those she had visited the palace. They led them into a large hall and sat down at a table. Each of them found on his plate what he had given the princess. Some found a piece of old, discarded bread, others a few rotten potatoes or leftovers from another old dish. Only the older man and the older woman were the exceptions. They found bowls of the best food in front of them. The princess then told the congregation: “Today, you have found the same thing that you gave me yesterday. Remember that a similar reward awaits you in the other world. “

2. The Lord Jesus is hidden in his neighbors. Today’s gospel says that there is also a stranger among us. It is not some priestly or other respected personality, but Christ. The unknown recognizes us for various things – for food when he is hungry; for clothing when it is cold; for a visit and help when he is ill. He will walk for so long, for ages, until the end of the world. Then again, like the princess, he will take us with him to repay us for what we have done to him: To each one according to the help he has given him or not. Some then hear that they fed him when he was hungry; they clothed him when he had no garment; they cared for him when he was ill. Others refused to give it all to him. Both equally astonished ask, Lord, when did we see you hungry, naked, sick, or imprisoned? The Lord Jesus, as we read a moment ago, will answer, “Verily I say unto you, Since ye have done it unto one of the least of these brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Mathew 25:40).

Surely you, like the astonished ones, ask, but not in court, but today, now: Maybe in that annoying classmate who is learning poorly, or should I see Christ himself in that brazen classmate? And maybe in a quarry, a dirty beggar, or in my brother and sister, who are bothering me? And should I help them when they cannot learn, take care of them when they are sick, and share with them their things as with the Lord Jesus Himself? You would still be willing to see Christ in a distant, hungry black woman in a nice picture or photograph in the newspaper. But in those little mice classmates and acquaintances, you meet every day? Many still cannot understand this.

However, it is so. This is how the Lord Jesus teaches. In fact, he doesn’t disguise himself as a beggar, a sick person, or your classmates. But he goes out with them all. He is present in them through holy baptism and holy communion. There is no denying that their mistakes and shortcomings make it difficult for us to see Christ in them; they obscure him. Yet he is in them. He also wants them to become better and easier to see in them. You try to help them uncover the face of the Lord Jesus in their faces. Also, try to live the gospel yourself so that others can see Christ in you. Your sins also obscure it. But I hope that none of you have driven him from your soul with mortal sin. If God’s judgment had already taken place over us here in the church, I suppose you wouldn’t have to blush with shame … Today, as we listened to the horrifying description of the Last Judgment, you may have thought: Why the Lord Jesus, such good, merciful, threatening eternal destruction? We will try to answer this question together. The Lord Jesus, although He loves us so much that He has given His life for us, cannot be unjust. Can the Lord Jesus say to a person who has stolen, drunk, hated, wronged others all his life, and never regretted it, “Did you do well, come to heaven?” Would that be?

3. Place on the bus and other good deeds. God’s judgment on the living has actually begun here on earth, and it continues our whole life. Only the last statement will be announced by the Lord God later: to each one individually – at death and publicly at the end of the world. Each of our good deeds, every help of what is in need, is part of the last good statement, but every refusal to help can be part of the last refusal. Many of you may say: We are still small; we have almost nothing ourselves. So, how can we feed poor people, putting clothes naked, or going to jail to visit prisoners?

Sure, you can’t do everything. But for example, you can visit the sick and serve them; you can help parents, siblings, and society. Today, I would like to draw your attention to one of the good deeds: making room on the bus available to the elderly and the weaker. The Lord Jesus is not talking about this, but only because there were no buses then. Many children begin to feel a strange weakness in their legs as soon as they get on a bus, train, or tram. They look around for seating. When mom is with you, she usually helps you find him. But she mostly stands alone. Then older people come. Sometimes some children get up and offer their place, but they do not see anyone in many cases. Is there love for neighbor in such children? Do they see in the elders and the weak Christ to be helped? It is similar to freeing up space in the church or some public gatherings. When the children get off the bus, their feet stop hurting, and they can run and play for hours.

Young pagans can sometimes be an example for you. We learn from the history of ancient Sparta that several Spartan boys got up and begged him to take their seats when an older man appeared at the stadium. They stood until he sat down. It was several hundred years before the birth of Christ! We have paid special attention to one of the good deeds that most children can do. You yourself, without the help of others, could name many more. He who has a good heart, a lot of love for his neighbor, sees himself, without comments, various opportunities to help. An example is scouts who have the motto: Not a day without a good deed!

Through constant education and acquisition of knowledge and understanding, the shape of the brain changes. The more mentally able one acquires, the more brain threads are formed. The more educated someone is, the more brain streaks and threads and threads are formed, while the lesser the number of strokes and threads on a common person’s brain. Intelligence does not depend on the brain’s weight but rather on the number of turns and grooves. Examining the deceased Anatol France, he found that the brain weighed only 1,017 grams than the normal 1,300. But it had unusually intricate folds and thus an enlarged surface area. For mental powers to be exercised and developed, it does not depend on the brain mass’s weight but the cell density. No mammal has more than 5,000 cells in a cubic centimeter of the cortex. However, in humans’ case, the cell density in the cerebral cortex reaches 50,000 or more in a cubic centimeter of the brain. As for the surface of the animal brain – rabbit and bird brains are almost smooth. The brain of an orangutan with all its threads and furrows has barely 500 square centimeters. In contrast, the surface of the human cerebral cortex covers an area of ​​2,200 square centimeters. However, intelligence does not depend so much on cell density and cortical area, nor brain weight and the number of grooves. Rather, on the purposeful filling of all esplans with knowledge. Acquiring an anomaly can be a bit like climbing heights. We are rising higher and higher. With each step, our vision reveals a wider horizon. Every human brain is capable of evolving to the highest intelligence. We can compare it to an undeveloped negative, which we want to insert into the developer. The negative board seems empty at first, but it gradually develops into a beautiful image, captured in advance, if we do the right thing, if we let the developer work. If insufficient action by the developer and incorrect and incorrect handling and mishandling, we will cause a weak image. The developer is our soul, who must strive to create grooves, threads, which have already been established and intended for this. With little effort, the brain remains weak.

Some Sadducees who denied the resurrection came to Jesus and asked him: “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a brother who had a wife died but was childless, his brother was to marry her and have a child for his brother. So, there were seven brothers. The first married and died childlessly. The second one took her, then the third, and all seven of them. But they left no children and died. Eventually, the woman died. To which of them shall a wife be a wife in the resurrection? After all, they had her at seven as a wife. “Jesus told them,” The sons of this age marry and marry. But those who are recognized as worthy of this age and resurrection are no longer married or married. And they are the sons of God because they are the children of the resurrection. To him, all live. ” Here, some scribes said, “Teacher, you have said it well.” And they no longer dared to question him.

The view of the nature of these days, amplified by the memory of the dead, and the thought of the approaching end of the church year evoke the desire to know more, believe, and experience from what Jesus taught people. Yes, many believe in God, we want to get to heaven, but we are afraid to live and believe, as Jesus teaches. And it is today that the words of Jesus are a memento for us: “God is not the God of the dead, but the living, for all life for him” (Luke 20:38)

The idea of ​​the future is as relevant today as it was in the time of the Lord Jesus. What will happen after death and how difficult it is to name notions of resurrection, life after death are often incorrectly marked. They cause misunderstandings, rejections, and even attacks. St. Luke describes the incident when a group of Sadducees who deny the resurrection ask Jesus about a levitation marriage to ridicule him in front of a crowd. They come up with an absurd story based on Moses’s law, which could only be done with very little probability, and only to ridicule Jesus without realizing that they are exposing their helplessness, confusion, and lack of valuable arguments. They act as they do intoxicate by the fear of Jesus, followed by more and more people, and Jesus teaches that the resurrection means the supreme and sovereign realization of the truth that “he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all life for him” (Luke 20). A group of Sadducee despised the idea of ​​the resurrection.

The resurrection in the Old Testament has not yet been revealed as we know it today. Even today, many believers have doubts about the resurrection, and he proved not only with his word but also with his deeds that the resurrection is a reality. The hope of a resurrection in the Old Testament has little to do with the resurrection in the New Testament. Rather, they understood the resurrection in natural life, more perfect, but here on earth. The Sadducee mock him and do not accept him. The body was looked contemptuous at the time. In the Gospels, we have more evidence of the existence of eternal life. Jesus is talking about treasures that we should not collect on earth, where they are unsure, destroyed by rust, moths, and stolen. We are to store our treasure in heaven, noting, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21). He emphasizes parable life in parables; a rich man whose field has yielded a rich harvest, and he is acting foolishly. (cf. Luke 12: 16-21), about the rich man and Lazarus (cf. Luke 16: 19-31), about talents and responsibility for them (cf. Mt 25: 14-30), but also about the ten virgins who were wise and unwise (cf. Mt 25: 1-13). Jesus’ words about heaven and hell: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the flesh, but they cannot kill the soul” (Matthew 10:28), or the words when the hand seduces us, the foot, the eye, how we are to behave and why (cf. Mk 9: 9,43-48), but also today’s passage from the Gospel are a challenge to the first responsibility to our soul and body. Jesus speaks of the existence of what will be what we on earth cannot understand, that those who acquire this status will no longer marry or marry, but will live like angels. There is talk of a new quality of transformation that is unimaginable for us today.

The sixth day is the day of the birth of terrestrial game and man. Here again, problems arise that require a more detailed analysis. Above all, the most debated problem arises here, whether the man in all its complexity is also the product of development, or it is necessary to presuppose direct divine intervention. A text from the Bible could testify favoring the second view: “Then God said,” Let us make man in our image, like us. ” j. on the ability to think and make free decisions. If we supplement the austere quotation with another text from the source, we are offered an interpretation that is much closer to the scientific opinion. We cannot doubt that man also has a long development and that it did not arise all at once in its current form.

Elsewhere in the Bible, we read, “Then God made man out of the clay of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.” originated. In order for this creature to get “mentally”, it was necessary for God to “breathe life” into it. Science cannot competently comment on this problem because it has not yet found any bridge between biological systems and systems characterized by self-reflection and thinking. And so, it is quite possible that in the process of evolution, God intervened creatively when he breathed into man’s soul. Despite these as yet unresolved problems, we can rightly state that there is an excellent correlation between religious and scientific opinion even on the sixth day.

There is another, not uninteresting, idea of ​​the sixth day of creation. If man were a phenomenon that had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the living world, especially animals, one would certainly devote a separate day to it in the biblical script. In fact, it is claimed there that man was created practically together with animals, which apparently meant to demonstrate that the “bodily” basis has the same. This is in line with what modern science has arrived at – over 90 percent of genes are common to the entire animal kingdom. We thus come to the surprising conclusion that Darwin’s principle is actually implicitly present in the biblical text on creation.

Thus, we can state that the rapid development of science in modern times does not deepen the contradiction between science and faith. Still, on the contrary, information from these two sources essentially converges to the same truths, only formulated differently depending on the specificity of the languages ​​they use. As if Paul Davies’s statement was being fulfilled: “It may seem bizarre, but science provides a safer path to God than religion.”

 Many scholars have explored this mysterious instrument of the soul to uncover the mystery between matter and soul. Still, despite all efforts, they have not been able to achieve satisfactory results. It seems that a person cannot cross the boundaries of his knowledge as long as he is mentally bound to his brain and its receptors. And yet, in the fourth stage of sleep, the soul manifests and knows everything directly. Our senses grope like the tentacles of a blind animal in our unexplored surroundings. They are insufficient for scientific knowledge. Here metaphysics will have the last word because inner vision intuition outweighs scientific knowledge. Exact science cannot reach a complete understanding of infinity. We need to go inside and here for us helpers subconscious. The whole soul is not the same in all parts of the body. It has different powers to which the individual parts of the body correspond. Its activities are particularly located in the most important organ – the brain. The higher and more perfect powers of the soul are hampered in this life by an underdeveloped brain center, so they are seldom applied. The big brain is the working soul: every movement, the sensory impression has its place in the gray cortex and brain threads. Our self-consciousness lives in the great brain and on the surface of the gray cortex. In this life, mental events are not possible without material accompaniment. Below the large brain in the header, a small brain covers the elongated spinal cord. There is a respiratory center in the elongated spinal cord. Nerves for the upper and lower body protrude from the spinal cord. We recognize two groups of nerves. Some lead from the brain to the body surface, so-called motor, performing our will, the other from the body surface to the brain so-called sensitive. Because the brain is an organ of the soul, the soul must develop natural talents for life-based impressions in the threads of the brain.