The guest of 168 TV’s “Zara has a question” program is theologian, producer Tovmas Urarakir Arakelyan.

Below are some of the highlights of Tovmas Arakelyan during the program.

It is Satan’s behavior. when the devil met Christ, he spoke exclusively in scriptural lines, quoted quite famous words from the Old Testament and tried to mislead Christ with the Bible itself, using the Bible itself. In the hands of this group, the Bible is another tool, such a tool as the yellow press, such as their administrative levers, their power structures, like a hammer in their hands. Like that hammer, he can shake the Canon Book of the Armenians, having absolutely no idea about that book, he can shake the Bible.

We will be obedient to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. nothing can break loyalty. The apostle Paul said: neither the sword, nor the sword, nor the persecution, nothing can separate us from our lord and savior Jesus Christ.

See how they defile all the councils of the church in their lives. how they defile the marriage council with their own lives and their behavior. Not getting married and then even not getting married, breaking up and making it public. It is a rejection of marriage. I agree that private life is nobody’s business, but they make it public. Moreover, neither of us make anything public, but every time I take out my bed to air it out, shake it, several CP bloggers fall. They are in different folds of our beds. They are also trying to defile the Council of the Liturgy with disorganized clergy and by shortening, discounting, the Council of Ordination, not accepting ordained clergy, the Catholic ordination.

The only reform that they have done to this church during the last year was to remove traitors from our ranks. Christ says: they came from among us, but they were not of us, and it is obvious that they were not of us.

The struggle was never political for me for a moment, I never had any political interest for a moment, and I don’t have it now. I have no personal or financial interest in that political process. For us, and for me personally, this is a problem of the identity of the Motherland, the values ​​of the church. it is not a political problem, it is not a party problem, and I have always said that we are on the battlefield of the homeland and values, in today’s Sardarapat and Avarayr, and the clergy cannot remain indifferent and uninvolved.

CP clerics claimed months ago that no, this is a political issue, and the church should stay out of political issues. I qualify this as value and homeland, they qualify this as politics and party. Those clerics who said it’s just politics, it’s a party issue, go, stand in the CP campaign in secular clothes (by the way, I have to say, disorganized clergy in secular clothes and with incomprehensible women).

The clergyman, being a citizen, can and must speak his word, and these unconstitutional lines that they have included in their pre-election program show that they have lost, that the reformation movement is a defeated, exhausted, worn out movement. There was the line “Father’s call for rest”. what does it mean, the prime minister will call the Catholicos to rest?

People participated in the “renovation” of the church, who during the construction of St. Anne’s Church “not to offer prayers. pray well, we have just arrived” they stood in front of the church with posters and held a rally.

If you could solve the problem in such a way that we would have “the same situation, but without the victims”, we might not know. If we called you a traitor, you would have said: let them call me a traitor, let me be a traitor, let them hang me, but 5000 boys, 4000 boys, 5 boys, 5 young men should not be sacrificed.

Let those people who come in and out go one day and talk outside in such a state, let them go, one day they will grab Aliyev by the arm, say: I am saying something, stop, listen to what I am saying, say: are you going, stop, they will pull Aliyev by the arm, say: wait a minute, I have not finished speaking, stay where you are, listen to me until the end.

We should all go together as one person, together as one heart, one soul, participate in the elections with prayer and wisdom. The most important question today is this, because tomorrow depends on participation in these elections, and on the participation of each of us. You know, a very small percentage participated in the previous elections, and this is devastating for all of us. Do not be lazy, do not despair.

In all our topics, we must have our political prisoners as a focus, and for me, as an Armenian, as a Christian, the person who entered the front line of this campaign for the sake of my church is very acceptable. Whoever is on the right course, they also persecute him. if today Samvel Karapetyan, Reverend Bagrat, Reverend Mikael Srbazan are political prisoners… I am with them.

Regardless of the fact that I also traveled with them, the indicator for me today is who this regime persecuted, even if it is a stranger, I immediately have respect for that person and I start to look for what good deed he is being persecuted for. And I’m never wrong, you know.

It is a very interesting unit of measurement. And in the same way, when I hear something positive from this regime about an artist, a figure, a positive gesture towards that person, I say: look at what compromises, what dark pages this person has in his biography, that by using it, they made a person a slave.

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