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Education is the foundation of every developed society of people and the Greeks know very well, since ancient times, the role of education in every successful individual or social pursuit.

Through education, we acquire the most important things in life, much more in the 21st century, where without education simply one can not even overcome elementary everyday issues. So if education is necessary to be able to overcome for everyday issues, how much more necessary is education when it comes to serious issues, not just of everyday life but also of the future?

No one can overlook the need for people to look with responsibility into the Holy Letters so that they will not be the victim of irresponsible news and mentalities that deprive them of the joy and enjoyment of the fruits of his faith in Christ.

The life of faith in Christ has fruit and no one should deprive this free provision because of ignorance or misunderstanding.

In the Greek language, purity has retained the same importance over the centuries. Pure is someone who is clean, not polluted or dirty, and dirty is the one who has dirt, impurities which have not been eliminated.

The modern word detergent denotes the material we use daily to remove dirt, small and large, from our body and our environment.

And it is quite understandable that the same is true of the pollutants of the soul, the outbreaks of infections that have either already settled in our bodies and torture our everyday lives or cling to our lives and compose the morbid mental environment within in which we live inefficiently, tired and loaded.

In any case, we know that all pollutants do not require the same process to be removed, but there are easy and difficult pollutants and we use a different detergent accordingly. The same goes for our mental health where daily purity – an effort to remove old pollutants that are installed in our soul’s web and affect it daily – is a prerequisite. In all cases, Christ explained that the purity of the soul, the inner world, comes from the process of hearing His words.

The ability of almost the entire population to know how t read and write is a fundametal feature of our time. And this feature did not always exist. In the older generations only a few people knew how to write and read.

It is also a conquest, not insignificant, which has great practical value in our daily lives, because it allows us not only to communicate through voice but also through the written word, which in many cases today is safer as a means of communication, since we have the ability at any time of our lives, to read – to listen in our perfectly personal inner world – things that no one else is involved with at that moment.

Thus, the written word becomes a voice that only the reader hears and no one else, and through the written word, messages can reach our consciousness, that can affect and transform our inner world first and then our practical life as a whole.

The reading of the Sacred Scriptures became a personal matter, the exchange of written messages became a daily routine, the man is called upon to make use of reading and writing to discover the world of faith, the new world with no borders either temporally or locally.

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.