Michael Mantzanas, professor of the Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens, speaks to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency about Christmas and its timeless message. “The supernatural message of Christmas is viewed from a soteriological perspective, it is eternally relevant and unfailingly true,” he emphasizes.

In fact, he points out, among other things, that “The God-man Jesus Christ is a perfect God and a perfect man. The two natures, the divine and the human, were united in the person or being of God the Word. With his birth the uncreated truth, the uncreated eternal reality, enters the world in time. The coming of the God-man Jesus Christ implies the uncreated truth of eternal life after death.”

The following is the detailed opinion of Professor Michael Manzanas on the topic “Christmas and its timeless message”

“The birth of the God-man Jesus Christ is an irrefutable historical event that brings saving hope to the faithful man. The God-man Jesus Christ was born to save people from the corruption of evil and death. The incarnation or incarnation of the Son and Word of God, according to the Dogmatics of Orthodox Theology, took place supernaturally through the spirit of Saint and Mary the Virgin during the Annunciation of the Virgin. The supernatural message of Christmas is presented from a soteriological perspective, it is eternally relevant and unfailingly true. The God-man Jesus Christ is perfect God and perfect man. The two natures, the divine and the human, were united in the person or being of God the Word. With his birth the uncreated truth, the uncreated eternal reality, enters the world in time. The coming of the God-man Jesus Christ implies the uncreated truth of eternal life after death. The uncreated truth of the God-man Jesus Christ is an objective reality. With his birth, the God-man Jesus Christ and with his Resurrection, he defeated the material, built-up corruption of death and handed over the privilege of salvation to the faithful man. Worthy of attention, undisputed acceptance and objective scientific observation is the timeless fact that the God-man Jesus Christ divided History into two parts, before Christ and after Christ.

The message of the birth of the God-man Jesus Christ in an era where, according to Heraclitus and P. Bourdieu, reality does not exist but the field of an endless struggle to define reality, points to the need to redefine our lives and the transition from the virtual power of confrontation, strife, conflict, division and death to the truth of eternal life. The historical event of the birth of the God-man Jesus Christ inoculates believers with inner freedom and the saving truth of eternal life. The truth that the birth of the God-man Jesus Christ gives us meaning is the overcoming of the obsession with the built and the material and marks the transition to the non-built and the spiritual which bring about the salvation of people”.