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The word “argument” states the proof with which I support something. And the value of the arguments is estimated on the basis of personal experience, since the word argument comes (in the greek language) from the word “hand”, that is, something I have personally touched something with my hand.

And it is known that where we have put our hand, we know it well and we are sure of what we say and support. Thomas, after the Resurrection, asked to put his hand on the marks that had come from the nails of the cross and the lance, precisely because this would be his personal experience.

The arguments of others are good, but they do not substitute, during the difficult times, the value of personal and individual arguments that you gain from your own experience.

In the issues of living faith, the experiences of others, the arguments of others are didactic but can not substitute our personal responsibility.

Only the personal experience, the sign left on your body and soul by a circumstance, only this sign can fill you with substantial and irrefutable arguments in your daily struggle not only to act right but also to preserve your faith active, your speech alive and the years of your life fruitful and oriented to the search for truth but also fruitful.

One time means once. Whatever it is, it is once. What does not happen once can happen many times or be repeated constantly, always, endlessly. This apparent diversification of these essential concepts in our everyday life is of great value if we understand their function in our lives.

We are born once, but we drink water often, we breather constantly and endlessly. And it is obvious that operations which happen once are of great importance, since there is no second chance. Similar value have the functions that are made often, but they do not have the directness of the one-time operation.

As for the contiguous functions, those that can not be interrupted because they mean direct or indirect death, they are obviously of great value. With this visual angle, we must approach the issues of living faith, a living function that transforms everyday life into eternity, today into a future, the impasse into a struggle for victory.

And the deeper one understands the “once” or “many times” or “endless” meaning in the issues of living faith, the deeper the roots of the tree go, the more the fruits it produces and the more its water source does not dwindle.

Depending on the age of our body there are the weights we can lift. And while this is get older, when we come to the age at which the person begins to be considered an elder, then the weights begin to decrease again, and as time passes, our physical strength decreases gradually to reach zero. This is our nature; this is the function of life as a whole, in the trees, in the animals, etc.

Unlike nature, the life of living faith follows another course, in which no age is foreseen, and there is no abatement for the vital functions of our internal world.

While people, animals and trees reach their full productive age, and then everything begins to decline to end up in death, in the life of faith, in the body of faith, there is only ascendancy and increasing production of the fruits of faith, which is another law , a law of faith and not nature.

In the law of faith, the production of fruit of faith remains increasing, there is no mitigating process, and the decision of man must be interwoven and adapted to what Christ said: some things you understand and you lift today, in the future you will understand and lift more.

The decline in production that you see in nature can be good teacher but it is not to be mimicked.