"A time is coming when people will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.' " (St. Anthony the Great)

what "banakan" means

The first question I anticipate being asked is, of course, "what does banakan mean?" It is the transliteration of բանական, whose equivalent in Greek is logikosLogikos appears in Romans 12:1, and is usually translated as "spiritual", but since its root is λόγος, it really has the connotation of being rationallogical, or (as I prefer) "of the w(/W)ord". The Word for us as Christians is not a thing, but a person—that is, Christ—and this applies to many other things as well, e.g. Love, Peace, Life, Truth. Banakan also refers to creation, since creation was brought into being through the Word [Ban] of God (John 1:3), and thus reflects the Word.


(If you are interested in learning more on this, please see this page for another explanation on logikos.)