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He Ain’t Experientially Heavy, He’s My Passenger!

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Passenger,
1) Orthodoxy is an association of spiritual hospitals which exists to cure the heart of man.  (Nothing difficult or challenging there.)
2) Non-Orthodox “Christians” have no idea what the heart/nous is much less how to cure it (this point is easy to prove and should cause no controversy whatsoever). 
You do need a reasoning brain to verify [...]

Athanisian reflections on evil and freedom

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

In Contra Gentes, St. Athanasius proclaims “That evil is not from God, nor is it in God, nor has it existed from the beginning, nor is it of any substantive existence; but men, in departing from the theoria of the good, began to devise and imagine that which is not, according to their desires” (7.3).
The great [...]

Is Fr. John Romanides a semi-Pelagian?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

In a positive, loving spirit, I wanted to offer some explanation for what may seem to be a denial of God’s “total sovereignty” in Orthodox theology. Please, anyone, correct my errors, since I have never written on this before. Also, this post is hopefully not seen as a “refutation” of Mr. Jay Dyer’s [...]