Lenten SOUND OF BELLS In ancient times, when God created Adam and Eve, he settled into a lush garden – the garden, where it was not necessary to think about their daily bread. They were like children, and God for their teacher. And he commanded them: "from all tree in the garden you may eat, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, because if you eat from it you will die. " But our first parents disobeyed the creator. Having tasted the forbidden fruit, transgressed, knowing not only good, but evil and against the will of God. And people were expelled from paradise, and the visible image of God was for them out of reach, and daily bread "in the sweat extract.

" So the first man condemned the whole human race in perpetual search for ways reconciliation with the Creator of the world, showing their love through repentance, abstinence, and spiritual sorrow for sin. Years passed, changing generation, but the severity of the original sin that has distorted life, given us by God, are increasingly people back to memories of heavenly life and faith in the promise of God concerning the coming of the Savior, omoyuschego with their blood our souls from sin. And he was the world. But before I do my duty, went into the desert, where for forty days, nights praying and fasting, was tempted by the devil, food, a phenomenon of miracle, the power of the world, but succumbed to evil and not give in, remained faithful to God only because he came to free people from the power of the prince of darkness, sin and eternal died believing in Christ, Russia became an Orthodox state.