Alexei Ilyich Osipov, Hieromonk Adrian (Pashin)
Rating: 7.1|Votes: 13
Why is it that I turned to his works in particular? As is well known, the oral and written accounts of him by all the Optina Elders and many other pious Russian ascetics are not simply positive, but rather, I’d say, are filled with admiration.
Bishop Ilias Miniatis
Rating: 8.4|Votes: 5
How different is God from man! But God, becoming a man and in taking flesh, did not abandon the nature of the Divinity. And how different a Virgin is from a Mother! But the Virgin, becoming a Mother, in maternal childbearing did not lose the glory of virginity. What a strange communion of two natures—the Godly and the human, united unmingled in one hypostasis!
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
The Bible teaches and orthodox Christians through the ages have believed that there is only one True and Living God and apart from Him there are no other Gods (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:10,11; 44:6,8; 45:21,22; 46:9; Mark 12:29-34). By contrast, the Mormon Church teaches that there are many Gods (Book of Abraham 4:3ff), and that we can become gods and goddesses in the celestial kingdom. It also teaches that those who achieve godhood will have spirit children who will worship and pray to them, just as we worship and pray to God the Father.
New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
Pascha of incorruption… The ancient inheritance is returned… Our seminary theology talks about some legal accounts between God and man. Sin is called for the most part a crime against God, an offense against God, for which God’s justice must take revenge against the despicable offender. But the Church first of all calls sin corruption, the loss of our ancient inheritance: incorruption.
The answer to this question is very important to our understanding of salvation and exactly what Christ did for us. If we look at Adam and Eve and their creation, we can see that God created them to have the promise of eternal life in paradise.
