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THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIONS: A path distinct from the divine work
By: Evangelos Dim. Kepenes (February 6, 2026, 13:20)
In stark contrast to the complete and immutable work of Christ, religious systems follow a declining course, subjected to the fluctuations of their economic and political environments. Through continuous interaction and the assimilation of foreign elements, they evolve, constantly producing new doctrinal nuances, which—devoid of spiritual substance—are unable to regenerate the mortal man, born of corruptible seed. Eventually, the predominant among them, seeking alignment with worldly power, end up transformed into totalitarian politico-religious systems, where regenerative grace is replaced by authority and by utopian religious ideals, such as:
The recovery of a "lost paradise" through a worldly messianism.
The expectation of an earthly kingdom of a fleshly "Israel".
The revival of the ghost of a "Christian" Byzantium or other theocratic empires.
The delusion of an "end of history", which ignores the unending nature of the Kingdom of grace.
The doctrinal fantasy of the restoration or "deification" of matter, which slides into the spiritualization of corruptible matter—hylozoism.
While nature recycles its inorganic elements and perpetuates life through an incessant, perishable seminal process, and Christ remains High Priest forever to save those who approach God through Him, these systems promise static utopias of ‘cessation’, failing to conceive the living and unending energy of divine grace in the mortal man, born of perishable seed
By creating—these utopian religious and evolving systems—structures of power and, by resorting to fear-mongering (Antichrist, eternal hell, loss of salvation due to non-submission to the system), they manipulate the spiritual freedom of the believers, neutralizing critical thinking and rendering them subservient bigots and followers of superstitions.
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