Are you logical? Some wisdom from a church father

“For if we think of the Word [λόγον] in the beginning, the Word [λόγον] who is with God, the Word [λόγον] who is God, perhaps we shall be able to say that he alone who participates in this Word [λόγον], insofar as he is such, is ‘rational’ [λογικόν]. Consequently, we could also say that the saint alone is rational [λογικός]” (Origen, Comm. Jo. 2.114)

Origen on taking sin lightly

Sheep and goats and cattle and birds were slain for those, of former times. With such things were they sprinkled. For you, however, the Son of God was slain: and it pleases you to sin again? (Homily on Leviticus 2, 4) Translation from William A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, 1:207

Ransom? The whom is it paid?

The New Testament nowhere suggests that Jesus’ death was the price paid to someone (such as the devil) to achieve our liberation. Some patristic writers, however, assumed that they could press this analogy to its limits, and declared that God had delivered us from the power of the devil by offering him Jesus as the price of our liberation.

Origen (ca. 185–ca. 254), perhaps the most speculative of early patristic writers, was one such writer. If Christ’s death was a ransom, Origen argued, it must have been paid to someone. But to whom? It could not have been paid to God, in that God was not holding sinners to ransom. Therefore, it had to be paid to the devil.—Alister McGrath, Theology: The Basics (2nd ed.), 84