• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What phenomenon is the Enlightener as a person, patriarch and Christian? Why did he choose to serve God exactly where his martyrdom was inevitable? What was the reason that after the bloodless martyrdom of 14 years he was so humble that did not consecrate any church until he got the right for consecration? Why did he give priority to spiritual healing rather than bodily healing in the process of Christianization of the whole nation?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What phenomenon is the Enlightener as a person, patriarch and Christian? Why did he choose to serve God exactly where his martyrdom was inevitable? What was the reason that after the bloodless martyrdom of 14 years he was so humble that did not consecrate any church until he got the right for consecration? Why did he give priority to spiritual healing rather than bodily healing in the process of Christianization of the whole nation?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

What does Jesus call "trouble"? How to follow someone who doesn't promise welfare, comfort, glory and honor, but says that we will have trouble and that the door is narrow?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

What is thanksgiving and why does it go in parallel with glorifying? In the episode of the multiplication of loaves, we see how Jesus Himself gave thanks to the Father and it was followed by the multiplication of loaves. Does this mean that when we give thanks for what we have, the Lord multiplies it? Why isn't the contemporary human thankful?

• Fr. Mikayel Nurijanyan

Why does nothing make us happy for a lasting time? What was desirable yesterday is not interesting for us today also. Why isn't the object of our joy permanent? What is the difference between secular and spiritual joys? How to attain the perfect joy of spirit or the joy that has no sadness?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

In the Bible we can find about both Aaronic priesthood and that of Melchizedek. What was their difference, and why was Jesus Christ's priesthood considered a priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek? What is the Christian priesthood? Why did the Church need priesthood, and why is priesthood one of the seven sacraments of the Church?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Why does the Bible say that God's counsels are not like ours, neither His ways. Then how to understand God's counsels and walk in His way? Have the counsels and ways of the saints become the same with God's counsels and ways?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Why does the Lord say about Himself that He has no place to lay His head? Does that place depend on us, humans? What to do so that the Lord may find rest in us? How to enter into the rest of the Lord so that He may also find rest in us?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Why does the Lord say that He and His Father are one? Does He allude to serving the same purpose or does He mean the sameness of persons? Or how to understand the words: "Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father"? What is oneness? What is the difference between the oneness of Jesus with the Father and the oneness of Jesus with us? How to become one with the Lord?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

What is a temptation? When can a temptation become a trouble? How does our temptation by God differ from the temptation by Satan? How to recognize who is our tempter, God, Satan or we ourselves? How should a Christian behave in case of any temptation?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Why did the Lord condemn Satan's offer to make stones bread, a sinless offer at first sight? Why did the Lord show that the Word was more important than bread? In which cases can a human being be subjected to such temptation by the evil one?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

In the early Christianity, the individual public confession was the accepted form of confession of sins. Why did people confess their sins publicly? Didn't this cause problems between the confessors and their environment? What does confession, in particular the individual confession, give the believer?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

When we speak about the fall of the man expelled from the Paradise, what do we think about the reason of his fall? What diminished in him? What did his physical and spiritual body change into? Does not Satan promise the same to humans today as what he promised to the first man in the Paradise? Don't modern people attempt to become almighty, that is gods, without God? Where will this lead humanity?

• Fr. Nshan Alaverdyan

What is unchangeable in God's plans and in relations between God and humans, humans and Church, and the Church and God? How should the Church be renewed or reformed so that God's word and God's essence may not be distorted?

• Fr. Ghazar Petrosyan

What is holiness? Who are the dogs in spiritual context, and in which cases holiness is considered to be thrown before dogs? The Lord Himself commanded to preach the Word of God to unbelievers, but He doesn't allow to throw what is holy to dogs and swine. How to understand this?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian

What is a vow according to the Holy Bible? Is breaking vows punishable? How did people go on pilgrimage in the past and how do they do it nowadays? What does pilgrimage give humans, particularly the pilgrimage to Jerusalem?

• Fr. Mikael Nurijanyan

Can people be comforted only by each other, or perhaps it is not enough? What is comfort, and in what ways impossible for humans can the Lord comfort us? How were Simeon the God-Receiver and other Biblical characters comforted? Do we all have the need for comfort? How can the same Lord comfort us if we are comforted by different things?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Which are the characteristic features of the virtuous wife in the Bible? Do they change over time? What does the virtue of the wife give her husband? What is the reason that the Bible doesn't have a description of the virtuous husband but has one for the virtuous wife? Why is the one who was called "the blessed among women" considered the criterion for a virtuous woman? Can a wife who lost her virtue regain it?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

What is the traditional Armenian family like? What was its predecessor, the patriarchal family, like? What relations were there between elder and younger members of family, man and woman, father and son, mother and daughter? What rules of Christian conduct did the traditional Armenian family have, and what edifying lessons can it offer to contemporary families?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Why are most tragic and intolerant human relations in the history those between fathers and sons, becoming a serious theme in literature? Nietzsche developed an entire theory on this topic. What Biblical examples do we have for these relations? If there is Christian atmosphere in a family, is it possible that children educated and raised in this environment would later become a shame for their parents? What educates children in the family and bonds them with warm family ties, and what alienates children from their families and makes them disrespectful toward family?

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Mustn't we first find out what marital fidelity is if we want to find out what marital infidelity is? What components does it have? Doesn't "fides" ("faith") lie in the basis of this word? Can the couples united in spiritual union be unfaithful to each other in body? Why do some differentiate spiritual and bodily infidelities?

What is repentance as a spiritual reality? What is the ratio between sin and repentance? Is it possible to repent fully without awareness of one's own sins? Did Cain and Judas repent? What produces repentance, and what are its consequences and fruits?

• Fr. Mikayel Nurijanyan

• Fr. Smbat Sargsyan

Is the perception of the Christian model of family subject to time-related change? Should family members have relation with each other on the basis of superiority of rights or exerting the free law of love? Why do the hearts that were once close to each other become alienated? Must interference with family relations be used and if so, who must interfere?

We know from the Bible that God is all in all. How to understand this? The Lord said that our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit, while the human being shares God's image and likeness. Does this mean where there is a human, there is also God, regardless of the condition of that human? How to understand which of our actions are led by God and which are not led by Him?

• Fr. Dajad Davidian