God is a reality

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

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Theology

Rating: 10|Votes: 2

God is a reality

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

God is the highest, purest, and most undoubtable reality. I can doubt that you see me, or that I see you. Maybe we’re sleeping, perhaps it’s a dream. We can have doubts about this. But about whether God is a reality—it’s impossible to doubt. He is life, and truth, and the way, and He is reality, clouded for man because the devil played an evil trick on us—and we went along with this trick and called life that which is not life.

The “Council” of Crete: The Chronicle of a Premeditated Deviation

Archimandrite Athanasios Anastasiou

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 10|Votes: 3

The “Council” of Crete: The Chronicle of a Premeditated Deviation

Archimandrite Athanasios Anastasiou

This is by far the most complete historical account and spiritual analysis of the "Council" of Crete to date, giving the reader both an overview and inside look at the events leading up and occurring at the "Council", with emphasis on the Church of Greece's involvement.

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Theology

Rating: 5.6|Votes: 15

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

So that we would not form the impression that the teaching on the aerial tollhouses was only known to the Eastern Fathers of the Church, we will turn to testimony from the book by Fr. Seraphim (Rose), where he show that he was familiar with themany different Orthodox Western sources, which were never translated into Greek or Russian and which abound with descriptions of the tollhouses.

Spiritual Fatherhood and Modern Psychology: Thoughts for Consideration

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 7.3|Votes: 7

Spiritual Fatherhood and Modern Psychology: Thoughts for Consideration

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

In Orthodoxy salvation is a process of working to cleanse the inner man. In this process there are three stages of grace: the first is that of cleansing, the second enlightenment, and the third perfection, which is rare. We must repent and become cleansed of our wrong thoughts and sins, and then the mind can become enlightened by receiving thoughts of God.

Why does God allow evil

Talks on the Book of Genesis 4

Andrei Solodkov

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Theology

Rating: 6.3|Votes: 13

Why does God allow evil

Talks on the Book of Genesis 4

Andrei Solodkov

How does the Bible explain the reason for satan’s fall from God? Why does the devil appear to Eve in the form of a serpent? What is the trap hidden in his questions? Why does the All-Seeing God ask Adam, “Where are you?”