Bishop Alexander (Mileant)
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
"It is important to understand that the twentieth chapter of the book of Revelation does not introduce any new teaching about the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ. Its purpose is to summarize the battle between the devil and the Church which permeates the whole history of mankind. The devil is defeated twice: first spiritually, by the redemptive death of the Savior, and at the end of the world, completely and finally, when he will be thrown into the lake of fire. Christian martyrs began to celebrate their victory over satan immediately following their death for Christ."
Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)
Rating: 7.3|Votes: 15
"This kingdom of Christ, derived not from this world, constitutes the Church, or the Body, of Christ, of which the head is Christ Himself (Eph. 1:22). The adoption and entrance into this kingdom takes place only through the laver of regeneration (Titus 3:5) or birth from above (Jn. 3:3)."
Fr. Ted Bobosh
The Fathers of the Church were biblical literalists in the sense that they took every single word of Scripture seriously. The words of Scripture had a plain meaning, but they also both hid and revealed a spiritual sense.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Put yourself in the fourth century. There is only one Church, and that Church is One.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The Church is steadily diminished in the life of the nation, privatized and relativized. Its loyalty becomes subsidiary to the loyalty of the State.