Antioch Alexander

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen. What is the meaning of life?   What does it mean to be a human being?   These questions, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, are fundamental to our existence: among all of humanity, whatever religious beliefs, we ask the questions, “Why am I here?   What is the meaning of my life?” How then are we to approach these questions?   We look to our origins, our foundations.   Some will look to a Big Bang , which led to a series of causes and effects which, in turn, led ultimately to you and to me: in other words all my achievements and failures are not the result of me but of the cause and effect of the universe.   I can do nothing which has not been predefined by fate — an interesting concept in the age of secularism, science and reason.   Yet this line of thinking leaves no room for the cause of the Big Bang, the Ultimate Cause, from which our universe is th...

Brethren, when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, He swore by Himself, saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” And thus Abraham, having patiently endured, obtained the promise. Men indeed swear by one greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of His purpose, He interposed with an oath. So that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner shrine behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. At that time, a man came to Jesus, kneeling ...