In the week behind us, the Evangelical Allianz World Week of Prayer was held. Its main theme: the Sabbath - life according to God's rhythm. The Sabbath, which connects Jewish and Christian thought. Saturday and Sunday, through which God gave rhythm to time and earthly life, dignity to the created world - Dr. Lajos Békefí's opinion article was published by velvidek.ma, from which we are viewing.
The Sabbath of the Creator Father and the Sunday of the Resurrected Jesus, leading to new life, are a historical chance, a model of life protection, the identification, explanation, and deeper understanding of which elevates these two rhythm-giving days, the end of the week and the beginning of the week, almost to the sacrament of the sanctification of life.
The unified view of Sabbath-Sunday, based on the Bible, is the possibility that highlights things, life, and our destiny in it, from the grayness of crude and also one-sided views, behavioral and lifestyle routines, and habits.
From that soul-crushing monotony, which, according to the widespread, lapidary and flat reasoning, is willing to consider, evaluate, and devalue people and things only according to their usefulness and use value!
A real understanding of Saturday-Sunday helps you rise above, rise above the dimensions beyond the narrow profit value, into the dimensions of real and lasting value. Because it teaches us to see, live, appreciate, orient ourselves in the world created by God according to its VALUE OF EXISTENCE, its CREATION VALUE, which in its 21st century digital reality is more than what we perceive and become aware of in our virtual reality vision.
The first story of creation in the Bible ends like this: "And God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:31). Then a chapter later: "On the seventh day God finished his creative work, and rested on the seventh day after all his creative work" (Genesis 2:2). He rested because he too needs the rhythm created by Him: the day of rest. Not as Madách described it: "The great work is finished, yes. The machine rotates, the creator rests. It moves on its axis for millions of years...".
It would be a serious one-sidedness of view to believe that God completed his work and then retired. He rested in order to have the strength to continue.
After all, new strength lies in calmness and relaxation (Goethe). God examines his created world and distinguishes his God-being resting in himself from the created Being, but at the same time makes it obvious that he remains in co-existence with his God-being with his creation.
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