{"id":1868,"date":"2018-04-19T02:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2018-06-06T23:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T06:52:07","slug":"met-serap-punish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/met-serap-punish\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A About Death and Punishment (Metropolitan Serapion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1868-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Serapion-edited.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Serapion-edited.mp3\">http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Serapion-edited.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">H.E. Metropolitan Serapion answers question about death &amp; punishment,\u00a0from Series of Lectures on the Incarnation, at St. Maurice Coptic Orthodox Church<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;There is a punishment.<\/strong>\u00a0If you want to say someone who sins separates himself from God, just as a student fails because he didn\u2019t study [that\u2019s fine],\u00a0<strong>but there is sentence pronounced upon him<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>There is a sentence of death pronounced upon him<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cthe day you eat of this tree you will die.\u201d\u00a0But there is a result. What is the result? It is not that God wants to kill him; he separated himself from God. Just as in the end God will say to some\u00a0\u201cDepart from me you cursed.\u201d\u00a0Did He force them to depart , or did they depart of their own will? If someone is far from God and doesn\u2019t believe in Him, how will he enter the Kingdom? How will he be with God, if he doesn\u2019t know God?<strong>\u00a0Here, will God punish him or will he punish himself? Both.&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211; H.E Metropolitan Serapion\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.E. Metropolitan Serapion answers question about death &amp; punishment,\u00a0from Series of Lectures on the Incarnation, at St. Maurice Coptic Orthodox&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/myagpeya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}