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1 Fwd,3| from right to left asks God's blessing that sanctification
2 Fwd,3| explains in his book The Law of God, the Catholic sign of the “
3 Fwd,3| are motivated by a love of God. However, the concern of
4 Fwd,3| the Orthodox, but because God is pleased to preserve His
5 Fwd,3| is found the fullness of God's grace and truth. Orthodoxy
6 Fwd,4| act of rebellion against God, these women seek to have
7 Fwd,4| these women seek to have God and religion serve their
8 Fwd,4| be found worthy to serve God. It is for these humble
9 Fwd,4| whenever this book speaks about God and man, the word man in
10 Fwd,5| police attempt to “re-image” God and “revise” divine revelation
11 Fwd,5| Christians have always worshiped God as Father and pray to Him
12 Fwd,5| Methodist service book in which God is invoked by such names
13 Fwd,5| direct contradiction to what God has revealed about Himself.
14 Fwd,5| masculine gender references to God. John 3:16 for instance,
15 Fwd,5| this absurd wording: “For God so loved the world that
16 Fwd,5| so loved the world that God gave God's only Child....”
17 Fwd,5| the world that God gave God's only Child....” Feminism
18 Fwd,5| always successful in turning God into “Mother,” then it at
19 Fwd,5| into gender was made by God in foreknowledge of the
20 Fwd,6| did not find favor with God through ambition or demanding
21 Fwd,6| human race — women — to whom God Himself granted a more sensitive,
22 Fwd,6| essential.~ Through the mercy of God, many conservative Roman
23 Fwd,6| Orthodox Church, before God closes its doors forever
24 Fwd,6| a knowledge of the true God, the uncreated Consubstantial
25 Fwd,6| ancient Church, that by God's grace, one's salvation
26 1,1 | his, but are creatures of God, suffering from the deadly,
27 1,1 | offenses perpetrated against God and His Holy Scriptures,
28 1,1 | correspond either to the word of God or to the universal Church
29 1,1 | supremacy over the entire world, God gave a restraining power
30 1,1 | he could not destroy us, God does not deprive us of the
31 1,1 | serve Him. Digression from God denotes an increase of iniquity.
32 1,1 | not seeking communion with God and eternal life, then the
33 1,1 | the restraining power of God will withdraw, antichrist
34 1,1 | through the fulfillment of God's commandments. When evil
35 1,1 | who followed him. Such was God's providential means of
36 1,1 | post-schism West “by the grace of God.” (One can observe a striking
37 1,1 | Constantine and the end to God's plans concerning world
38 1,1 | entails a relativization of God's Truth. As a Greek bishop
39 1,1 | them to deny the Living God and His Church, and to bow
40 1,1 | that final day given by God for the decisive self-determination
41 1,1 | for “the foundation of God standeth sure” (2 Tim 2:
42 1,2 | are members of the Church. God is the Creator of “all things
43 1,2 | angels, who sing in praise of God. This witness is preserved
44 1,2 | way when he instructs that God has ordained the union of
45 1,2 | with the Incarnation of God the Word, the Church becomes
46 1,8 | has the living presence of God.~ Moreover, Orthodoxy emphasizes
47 1,11| the chief means by which God has chosen to guide His
48 1,15| that non-Jews who turned to God should not be troubled with
49 2,6 | Christianity, in order to worship God, Christians had to leave
50 2,6 | Creed (“I believe in One God...”) is a concise summary
51 2,12| was a time when the Son of God did not exist, and those
52 2,12| a different essence from God the Father. While Arius
53 2,12| falsely taught that the Son of God was not the Creator but
54 2,12| affirmed that the Son of God is of the same nature as
55 2,12| is of the same nature as God the Father.~ The First Ecumenical
56 2,12| and equality of the Son of God with God the Father was
57 2,12| equality of the Son of God with God the Father was expressed
58 2,12| the Father.”~ Concerning God the Father's Only-Begotten
59 2,12| Only-Begotten Son, the Eternal God before the Ages, Jesus Christ,
60 2,12| comes from the essence of God can only be divine and eternal.
61 2,12| the Only-Begotten Son of God” (Jn 3:18), and He spoke
62 2,17| explain the mysteries of God (that is, the Trinity, the
63 2,17| explained the mysteries of God; they merely drew a fence
64 2,17| to understand and express God, and that they transcended
65 2,17| is impossible to express God and even more impossible
66 2,17| negative expression about God. By the first, His existence
67 2,17| also states, the being of God is simple, unknowable and
68 2,17| although we can apply to God such terms as Essence, Being,
69 2,17| understand that ultimately, God is beyond all these. The
70 2,17| say affirmatively about God does not show His essence,
71 2,17| describing the essence of God, but only things relating
72 2,17| state affirmatively about God does not show His nature,
73 2,17| to do with the essence of God, it is ultimately incomprehensible
74 2,17| be impossible to speak of God's essence,~ ~... even if
75 2,17| in nature and nearer to God than we, yet it is farther
76 2,17| is farther distant from God, and from the complete comprehension
77 2,18| which separates him from God?~ Of his own efforts, man
78 2,19| Scriptures does it appear that God is reconciled with men,
79 2,19| Christ reconciles man to God. Moreover, the metropolitan
80 2,19| patristic Tradition that God is never opposed to man,
81 2,19| but man opposed himself to God by having no communion or
82 2,19| with Him. Thus, man makes God his enemy, but God does
83 2,19| makes God his enemy, but God does not make man His enemy.
84 2,19| which he commits, man sees God in an angry and hostile
85 2,19| central message is that God the Son has taken the initiative
86 2,19| sinfulness created between God and man. The human race
87 2,19| self-emptying and abasement, God the Son directly intervened
88 2,19| work, Christ reconciled to God a humanity that had grown
89 2,19| that had grown distant from God and enslaved in sins, and
90 2,19| that separates men from God, and through the union of
91 2,19| through the union of man and God in His own Person, Christ
92 2,19| were triply separated from God — by nature, by sin and
93 2,19| people, He is the Pre-Eternal God (Jn 1:1-3). He is consubstantial (
94 2,20| enter into communion with God and be saved (and the goal
95 2,20| blessedness), we must come to know God in some measure. “This is
96 2,20| know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom
97 2,20| Thou hast sent” (Jn 17:3). God is Truth (Jn 14:6), and
98 2,20| wrong understanding about God does not know Him. The acceptance
99 2,20| of a false teaching about God also deprives people of
100 2,20| condemnation because they deny God's revelation, and through
101 2,20| heresy separates people from God, it severs them from the
102 2,20| barrier between man and God, leaving people permanently
103 2,20| of the devil's slandering God? What means did the devil
104 2,20| characteristic is that it considers God as the real cause of evil.”~
105 2,20| death as a punishment from God.” He goes on to state that:~ ~
106 2,20| something natural. But is not God the Creator of all natural
107 2,20| things? So in both cases, God — for them — is the real
108 2,20| cause of death.~ /.../ The “God” of the West is an offended
109 2,20| is an offended and angry God, full of wrath for the disobedience
110 2,20| dogma of salvation? Did not God kill God in order to satisfy
111 2,20| salvation? Did not God kill God in order to satisfy His
112 2,20| saved from the hands of God!” Dr. Kalomiros writes.~
113 2,20| a necessity imposed upon God, nor was the blood of the
114 2,20| source of satisfaction to God the Father, as the Latin
115 2,20| satisfying the justice of God” is a phrase nowhere to
116 2,20| Westerners anthropomorphize God, or project sinful qualities
117 2,20| qualities in fallen men onto God, Dr. Kalomiros adds:~ ~This
118 2,20| juridical conception of God, this completely distorted
119 2,20| distorted interpretation of God's justice, was nothing else
120 2,20| pagan process of humanizing God and deifying man. Men are
121 2,20| Christians thought about God's justice in the same way
122 2,20| justice in the same way also; God, the infinite Being, was
123 2,20| which they did not commit. God's justice for Westerners
124 2,20| humanity, could appease God's insulted dignity, even
125 2,20| history were to be sacrificed. God's dignity could be saved
126 2,20| So in order to save both God's dignity and mankind, there
127 2,20| could be sacrificed to save God's honor [Emphasis added].~
128 2,20| Western theological concept of God's justice is not Christian;
129 2,20| pagan concept that makes God the source of all our misfortunes.
130 2,20| this schizoid notion of a God Who kills God in order to
131 2,20| notion of a God Who kills God in order to satisfy the
132 2,20| the so-called justice of God [Emphasis added].~ ~In his
133 2,20| of the Western concept of God. He writes that:~ ~It is
134 2,20| is sinful to ascribe to God the characteristic features
135 2,20| fallen man, such as that God is angry and vengeful and
136 2,20| make it appear that it is God Who needs curing and not
137 2,20| is at enmity, but we; for God is never at enmity.” We
138 2,20| enmity.” We cannot say that God is man's enemy, but that
139 2,20| has become an enemy of God. Consequently, sin is not
140 2,20| sin is not an offense to God, Who must be cured, but
141 2,20| for us to maintain that God the Father would be pleased
142 2,20| much more unthinkable for God.... St. Gregory [the Theologian]
143 2,20| ascetic effort is to cure God and not man, to satisfy
144 2,20| and not man, to satisfy God's justice.... The Latins'
145 2,20| justifying themselves, appeasing God, and not toward their own
146 2,20| mind. When we think that God has been offended by the
147 2,20| when our relationship with God is put on a business basis,
148 2,20| fallen, sinful qualities to God is anthropomorphic. It is
149 2,20| invention. In no way is such a “God” the God of revelation,
150 2,20| way is such a “God” the God of revelation, the God Who
151 2,20| the God of revelation, the God Who revealed Himself to
152 2,20| have not actually thrown God out of their lives, for
153 2,20| discarded only the Western “God,” a non-existent “God.”)~
154 2,20| Western “God,” a non-existent “God.”)~ Given the utterly disastrous
155 2,21| Athanasius states that “God became man that we might
156 2,21| man that we might become god.”~ ~
157 2,22| that if man is to share in God's glory and be “perfectly
158 2,22| to become by grace what God is by nature.~ Although
159 2,22| that they do not become God or a part of Him (something
160 2,22| but impossible), still, God calls people into intimate
161 2,22| they may become children of God not by nature and begetting (
162 2,22| the Only-Begotten Son of God), but by grace and adoption.
163 2,22| power to become sons of God” (Jn 1:12), which raises
164 2,23| that they may be united to God.~ Although not noted in
165 2,23| knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the
166 2,24| the holy prototypes and to God. These icons bear the impress
167 2,25| If man is to share in God's glory, if he is to be “
168 2,25| be “perfectly one” with God, to what state would he
169 2,25| must become by grace what God is by nature.~ ~
170 2,26| be — and is — both fully God and fully man. The textbook
171 2,26| Christ was made less than God (Arianism); or His manhood
172 2,26| four heresies that attacked God's revelation, the Ecumenical
173 2,26| truth that Christ is fully God and fully man.~ ~
174 2,27| must Christ be truly, fully God?~ For theosis to be possible,
175 2,27| possible, Christ must be fully God since no one less than God
176 2,27| God since no one less than God can save man.~ ~
177 2,29| bridge was formed between God and man?~ The Incarnate
178 2,29| Incarnate Christ, Who is both God and man, is the bridge between
179 2,29| man, is the bridge between God and man.~ ~
180 2,30| open, and the angels of God ascending and descending
181 2,32| and that He must be fully God, and they formulated the
182 2,33| only if Christ is truly God can He unite us to God,
183 2,33| truly God can He unite us to God, for the way to union with
184 2,33| for the way to union with God can be opened by none but
185 2,33| can be opened by none but God Himself. The Council went
186 2,33| superior creature, but He is God in the same sense that the
187 2,33| sense that the Father is God.~ Monophysitism and Monothelitism
188 2,33| perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man... acknowledged
189 2,33| called a fighter against God and a ringleader of the
190 2,33| therefore placed the matter in God's hands. Then, while Arius
191 2,34| Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-Begotten, begotten
192 2,34| ages; Light of Light, true God of true God; begotten, not
193 2,34| Light, true God of true God; begotten, not made; of
194 2,34| stands the one and only God, the Most Holy Trinity.~ ~
195 2,35| the chief means by which God has chosen to guide His
196 2,35| Acts 15:28) [The Law of God, p. 425].~ ~
197 2,36| point is that dealing with God's plan for the salvation
198 2,36| the salvation of mankind. God the Son took the initiative
199 2,36| sinfulness had created between God and man. To this end, He
200 2,36| Christ, Who is both fully God and fully man, became a
201 2,36| became a bridge between God and man, and He invites
202 2,36| are but one more sign of God's concern for mankind and
203 3,1 | that the Holy Spirit is God, even as the Father and
204 3,1 | as the Father and Son are God. This Council also adopted
205 3,1 | Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the
206 3,1 | Living Person of the Triune God, distinct from the Father
207 3,1 | not an anonymous force of God, nor simply a force created
208 3,1 | simply a force created by God. Especially contradictory
209 3,1 | Especially contradictory to God's Word is the reasoning
210 3,3 | superior creature, but He is God in the very sense that the
211 3,3 | Father. Christ is “true God of true God, begotten not
212 3,3 | Christ is “true God of true God, begotten not made, one
213 3,4 | threeness and oneness of God and that they gave a full
214 3,4 | emphasized the “unity of God” and the latter “God's threeness.”
215 3,4 | of God” and the latter “God's threeness.” Fr. Patapios
216 3,4 | appreciate the “threeness” of God or that the Cappadocians
217 3,5 | same: the desire to become God by oneself. In this manner,
218 3,5 | he also wants to become God by himself to replace God
219 3,5 | God by himself to replace God with himself.... The fall
220 3,5 | Mysteries (Sacraments), given by God, resides in the Church.
221 3,5 | this earth the place of God Almighty — Pope Leo XIII,
222 3,5 | Father, the representative of God on earth, the Vicar of Christ,
223 3,5 | Christ, which means that I am God on earth — Pope Pius XI.~ ~
224 3,5 | The pope can do all things God can do — Nicholas de Tudeschis,
225 3,5 | pope is to make war against God, seeing that the pope is
226 3,5 | seeing that the pope is God and God is the pope — Moreri.~ ~
227 3,5 | that the pope is God and God is the pope — Moreri.~ ~
228 3,5 | the pope is the “mind of God” and stated that “when the
229 3,5 | the pope meditates, it is God Who thinks in him.” Likewise,
230 3,5 | being judged by no one, God Himself on Earth [Exact
231 3,12| Greek for Birthgiver of God or God-Bearer). To him,
232 3,12| Protestants, who deny that God could have a mother, and
233 3,13| a man loosely united to God, but a single and undivided
234 3,13| is at the same time fully God and fully man.~ ~
235 3,14| Denying the Mother of God the title Theotokos is tantamount
236 3,14| that she bore the Word of God made flesh, a single and
237 3,14| Who is at once both fully God and fully man. It is to
238 3,14| down the bridge between God and man and erecting within
239 3,14| side by side in Christ — God and a man. It affirmed that
240 3,14| have to be the Mother of God, the Theotokos.~ ~
241 3,16| the eternal Hypostasis of God the Word is not also the
242 3,18| vision of the Mother of God. In the vision, the pope
243 4,3 | something repugnant to God. This outlook therefore
244 4,10| they lead a person towards God. Icons are theology communicated
245 4,12| that Christ is the icon of God the Father. When Christ
246 4,12| earth, those who then loved God the Father loved God the
247 4,12| loved God the Father loved God the Son. Since that time,
248 4,12| reaffirm their love for God in visible form, the God-Man
249 4,12| A church is the house of God and a house of prayer. As
250 4,12| revelation and knowledge of God, in which divine and human
251 4,12| icon is one of the ways God is revealed to man. Through
252 4,12| towards the knowledge of God. Dr. Cavarnos adds that
253 4,12| as a means of worshiping God and venerating His saints.
254 4,12| notation that:~ ~Neither God nor the saints, of course,
255 4,12| so, as the adoration of God and the admiration of saints
256 4,12| soul the desire to glorify God. I behold the martyr, the
257 4,12| I fall down and worship God through the martyr, and
258 4,12| in the holy churches of God [for veneration].... For
259 4,12| worship is accorded only to God. Moreover, the Fathers emphasized
260 4,12| attach more importance than God. Some who spend their entire
261 4,12| serving mammon rather than God, would accuse Orthodoxy
262 4,12| whole year, and there, at God's command, they constructed
263 4,12| same Moses, through whom God gave the commandment against
264 4,12| same time an order from God to place representations
265 4,12| turned for the worship of God. Therefore, the fact that
266 4,12| Therefore, the fact that God Himself gave instructions
267 4,12| Christ, the Incarnate God, sanctified the use of icons
268 4,12| and knowledge of the True God, all of them received Baptism,
269 4,12| Vladimir icon of the Mother of God holding the Pre-Eternal
270 4,12| of forms for glorifying God and His saints. Among these
271 4,12| Sarov explains, the grace of God works through icons. The
272 4,12| Savior and of the Mother of God; that one single look with
273 4,12| Savior and the Mother of God powerful to heal believers
274 4,12| holy prototypes, and to God. Traditional icons are faithful
275 4,12| madonna, where the Mother of God is depicted as a woman no
276 4,12| in place of the Mother of God). On the other hand, an
277 4,12| motherhood. In the Mother of God of Vladimir, for example,
278 4,12| Church on the Incarnation of God and Divine Wisdom.~ In eighteenth-century
279 4,12| country, Paradise, which God planted in the east.”~ In
280 4,13| repudiating icons depicting God the Son?~ By rejecting any
281 4,14| explanation that:~ ~Of old, God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed
282 4,14| depicted at all. But now that God has appeared in the flesh
283 4,14| I make an image of the God Who can be seen. I do not
284 4,14| the hypostatic union of God and human flesh.~ ~
285 4,15| representation of the human image of God, failed to understand the
286 4,16| with the belief that all of God's creation — material as
287 4,16| redeemed and transfigured. God's taking a material body
288 4,16| deified the flesh.” Thus God has deified matter and made
289 4,18| through which the grace of God works, and that through
290 5,1 | and shrines. The grace of God rested upon it.~ ~
291 5,4 | period of the Church, when God revealed to Moses the vow
292 5,4 | consecration of one's life to God (Numbers 6:2). Subsequently
293 5,4 | choice to be alone with God. From these monastic communities
294 5,4 | Christian faith and love of God. Martyrdom had a central
295 5,4 | desert to be alone with God. There he lived a life of
296 5,4 | Africa, were it not for God, Who knows His own people
297 5,4 | wish to live in seclusion, God reveals them and they cannot “
298 5,4 | wilderness), but because God wanted him to serve as a
299 5,4 | their search for unity with God, withdrew from the world
300 5,4 | wilderness. I waited for God that saveth me” (Ps 54:8-
301 5,4 | They, out of love for God, forsook the world and all
302 5,4 | their life in thinking of God, in prayer, in renouncing
303 5,4 | great deeds for the love of God, enduring during their whole
304 5,4 | their faith and trust in God, and especially their love
305 5,4 | To fight, for the love of God, against our own flesh and
306 5,4 | have a special closeness to God. They are “before the throne
307 5,4 | are “before the throne of God and serve Him day and night
308 5,4 | in the divine energies of God. This union with God is
309 5,4 | of God. This union with God is possible through the
310 5,4 | only this is impossible to God, to enter into union with
311 5,6 | in order to be united to God, for as was noted above,
312 5,6 | one thing is impossible to God: to enter into union with
313 5,7 | given to those carriers of God's grace and otherworldly
314 5,7 | uninterrupted abiding in God. Sanctity of life was definitely
315 5,7 | given to man directly by God, according to one's personal
316 5,7 | as direct transmitters of God's will for all who came
317 5,7 | about these strugglers for God: “Here he guessed and it
318 5,7 | has the great blessing of God as its foundation, and it
319 5,7 | instantly gave whatever name God placed in his mind. In the
320 5,7 | is in direct contact with God, Who gives him this ability.
321 5,7 | attaining to the will of God for man. That is, to a greater
322 5,7 | feeling of joy and freedom in God, for contact with God is
323 5,7 | in God, for contact with God is always combined with
324 5,8 | on earth a living icon of God's government in Heaven,
325 5,8 | kingdom with the Kingdom of God, and the Greek people with
326 5,8 | and the Greek people with God's people. There can be no
327 5,8 | fluctuating relationship with God. This principle began with
328 5,8 | freely-willed striving toward God and love for Him. Speaking
329 5,8 | In giving this command, God's intention was to teach
330 5,8 | After the first human sin, God came to Adam not to condemn
331 5,8 | complete lack of ill will, God could have immediately subjected
332 5,8 | Maria goes on to add that “God therefore saw that if [Adam
333 5,8 | only joy. After the fall, God allowed suffering to enter
334 5,8 | punished — but out of love. If God would not have allowed suffering,
335 5,8 | would all be like demons. God allowed suffering because,
336 5,8 | be completely blinded.~ ~God cherishes freedom. In order
337 5,8 | without freedom. That's why God has created us free like
338 5,8 | man return to Him. Only God can do that. The devil,
339 5,8 | in this very victory, for God can turn it around and use
340 5,8 | context of chastisement that God sends at the hands of unbelievers.
341 5,8 | bishop asks how it is that God calls Nebuchadnezzar, a
342 5,8 | explains:~ ~... when he to whom God has given knowledge of Himself
343 5,8 | law to lawlessness, then God takes as His servant him
344 5,8 | apostate. For an apostate from God is worse than a pagan....
345 5,8 | Balkans turned back from God and God's law, God took
346 5,8 | turned back from God and God's law, God took the Turks
347 5,8 | from God and God's law, God took the Turks as His servants,
348 5,8 | left to prosper? Where is God's justice? The same St.
349 5,8 | II:~ ~When Abraham asked God whether He would destroy
350 5,8 | righteous men were found in it, God answered that He would not
351 5,8 | Serbian people, so why did God not spare us? That is the
352 5,8 | that it did not know one God, as the Israelite people
353 5,8 | did not know the one true God. The Jews knew one true
354 5,8 | The Jews knew one true God through the prophets and
355 5,8 | The Serbs, however, knew God, revealed to the world in
356 5,8 | the scale of knowledge of God [Through a Prison Window].~ ~
357 5,8 | Window].~ ~In sacred history, God came to the transgressor
358 5,8 | the Syrian explains that God appears to Cain without
359 5,8 | the earth.” Here again, God shows first His concern
360 5,8 | Hebrews. For a long time God endured their sins and awaited
361 5,8 | that happens, happens with God's permission or approval,
362 5,8 | to us, not according to God's pleasure, but by His permission,
363 5,8 | wrath of the long-suffering God. As a result, there was
364 5,8 | surrounding wilderness. Thus did God in His righteous judgment
365 5,8 | the history of mankind: God chastises only after giving
366 5,8 | a nation turns away from God to the idolatrous worship
367 5,8 | this idea in The City of God, the Church does not exist
368 5,8 | salvation and the Kingdom of God.~ ~ ~ ~
369 6,6 | Turks as punishment from God, and the greater part of
370 6,6 | vestiges of Tartar suzerainty. God, it seemed, was granting
371 6,14| will inherit the Kingdom of God, no one who follows heretical
372 6,14| schisms. He states that God's plan for His Church does
373 6,14| antichrist's program, not that of God. Moreover, he notes, there
374 6,16| their own lives not only God's law or the commandments (
375 6,16| as are needed to satisfy God's justice for his sins,
376 6,16| yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any
377 6,16| Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that
378 6,16| ends, when the debt paid to God's justice is paid in full,
379 6,16| personally offer satisfaction to God's justice. Once the soul
380 6,16| for the satisfaction of God's justice. After the guilt
381 6,16| good works of the Mother of God and the saints. Fr. Victor
382 6,16| seems to exalt the Mother of God, it actually belittles her
383 6,16| the saints, the Mother of God. (Both this Latin dogma
384 6,17| might begin by assuming that God does not exist (or that
385 6,17| establish the existence of God and the created world. When
386 6,17| assumes the existence of God and His created world, for
387 6,17| events] is the soul and God; whatever God is doing and
388 6,17| the soul and God; whatever God is doing and whatever the
389 6,17| suggestion to rebel against God, and even as Adam and Eve
390 6,17| first cause, which is what God does in history and how
391 6,18| as the rock “upon which God builds” (1 Peter 2:5-8).
392 6,18| the rock is Christ. “For God has already placed Jesus
393 7,3 | indeed something to thank God that the Eastern Orthodox
394 7,9 | traditions that contradicted God's law. Christ told them: “
395 7,9 | leave the commandments of God, and hold fast to the traditions
396 7,9 | saying “making the word of God of none effect through your
397 7,9 | it away as a sacrifice to God. Through this act, he was
398 7,9 | have made a sacrifice to God, although in actual fact,
399 7,9 | Tradition originates from God and is divine revelation,
400 7,9 | Tradition was given to men by God, either directly (by Christ),
401 7,11| Tradition originates from God. Dr. Constantine Cavarnos
402 7,11| supernatural disclosure by God to people of otherwise unknowable
403 7,11| revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him,” and in the Acts
404 7,11| world, but is teaching from God. To the Corinthians he writes: “
405 7,11| but we speak the wisdom of God that is a mystery and hidden...
406 7,11| mystery and hidden... which God has revealed to us through
407 7,11| trickery, but is the word of God that He delivered to us
408 7,11| comprise the holy revelation of God for us are the fount and
409 7,11| public the powers worked by God in them; but as our Sacred
410 7,11| Testament as “the Word of God,” once again they are accepting
411 7,11| not “develop” (inasmuch as God does not change), and that
412 7,11| Christianity], the work of God, is, on the contrary, corrupted,
413 7,11| glorified and made wondrous by God, no less after the Schism
414 7,13| Bible's principal author is God Himself, but it was written
415 7,13| given by the inspiration of God” (2 Tim 3:16). Thus, the
416 7,13| Church is the means by which God wrote the Scriptures. In
417 7,13| Church is the means by which God preserved the Scriptures.
418 7,13| Orthodox Church for the Word of God.~ ~
419 7,14| the will and purpose of God in the Scripture, but for
420 7,14| heart, for they shall see God” (Mt 6:8). And the Holy
421 7,14| rightly know the will of God revealed in Holy Scripture,
422 7,14| Apostles pronounced the Word of God, interpreted it through
423 7,14| Fathers. Both the Word of God and its interpretation are
424 7,14| happens that the Word of God, the Word of salvation,
425 7,14| understanding has been opened by God “that they might understand
426 7,14| every faithful servant of God, every person who makes
427 7,14| self-will and submits himself to God's will by forcing himself
428 7,14| forcing himself to fulfill God's commandments, to the same
429 7,14| himself worthy to receive God's gifts. Among these gifts
430 7,14| such a life, they received God's mercy, and they received
431 7,14| against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity
432 7,14| reason, rather than upon God's wisdom as imparted in
433 7,14| teachings that have distorted God's revealed Truth, that is,
434 7,14| minds above the mind of God. The Fathers confronted
435 7,14| open our minds to accept God's revelation rather than
436 7,14| emphasis on man rather than God. This development was seen
437 7,14| Western man's dethroning God and placing man at the center
438 7,14| self-worship of man rather than God.~ The prevailing intellectual
439 7,14| man to the exclusion of God. Whereas in the Middle Ages,
440 7,14| anonymous, and gave glory to God for their achievements,
441 7,14| itself, which is a gift from God). The Enlightenment period
442 7,14| that man no longer needed God's revelation to find the
443 7,14| thinking that they can supplant God's revelation with human
444 7,14| able to attain knowledge of God and to theologize with divine
445 7,14| true teaching, coming from God, Himself, not diminished
446 7,14| divinely revealed teaching of God and man, preserved throughout
447 7,14| reason, to be higher than [God's] revelation.... [The Mind
448 7,14| therefore know something about God. However, the humanist cult
449 7,14| all-embracing reality of God's Truth. Because of that
450 7,14| Christianity, man — not God — has been made the measure
451 7,14| key to the knowledge of God, for it is only after repentance
452 7,14| only after repentance that God enlightens a person who
453 7,14| yet they also knew that God's ways often seem foolish
454 7,14| Protestantism supplants God the Word with the Word of
455 7,14| the Word with the Word of God (sola Scriptura). Fr. Gregory
456 7,14| the ultimacy of Christ God is compromised: Roman Catholicism
457 7,14| sanctity and enlightenment by God, Protestantism gives priority
458 7,14| Truth Himself, the Incarnate God. This pick-and-choose-what-to-believe
459 7,14| not the eternal Word of God. Many of the movements Protestant
460 7,14| maintains that the grace of God is present in all the Western
461 7,14| One must love God with one's whole heart and
462 7,14| to seek the knowledge of God's will by faith and reverence
463 7,14| and who were raised up by God as brilliant illuminators
464 7,14| insight into the mysteries of God than the common wisdom of
465 7,14| Church who faithfully served God and men, who endured terrible
466 7,14| must read the Bible; it is God's Holy Word! But to understand
467 7,15| in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the
468 7,17| has the certification of God Himself. Moreover, the Holy
469 7,17| temple to be consecrated to God, and it was customary to
470 7,17| sacrifice in thanksgiving to God as well. This law was established
471 7,17| of the law, the Mother of God and her espoused husband,
472 7,17| fulfillment of the promise God made to him, took Christ
473 7,17| blessing and glorifying God, he said:~ ~“Lord, now lettest
474 7,17| Orthodox Church by the grace of God and the struggles of pious
475 7,17| Christ the Savior, and of God the Father's preparing the
476 7,17| people to accept the Son of God, are not fabricated by the
477 7,17| war against the Word of God, this agreement shows that
478 7,17| vindicated the trust of God, Who delivered the absolute
479 7,17| free from corruption by God's grace and the labors of
480 7,17| Orthodox believers think that God forbids icons and that Orthodox
481 7,17| Christianity is contrary to God's revelation. Such an agenda,
482 7,17| Theotokos, the Mother of God, the maiden Mary of Galilee,
483 7,17| maiden Mary of Galilee, in God's plan of salvation. Numerous
484 7,19| heresies appeared that denied God's revelation and made use
485 7,20| one of the ways in which God is revealed to man. They
486 7,21| that is, like the immutable God Himself.~ ~It has never
487 7,21| faithful must, by the grace of God and in cooperation with
488 7,21| invention, but a revelation by God for man to be cured. Thus
489 8 | 8. God And Man.~ ~
490 8,2 | the image and likeness of God, and it is only through
491 8,4 | essence and the energies of God?~ At first glance, there
492 8,4 | contradiction between the concept of God's divine transcendence and
493 8,4 | communicable energies of God.~ The mystery of the Holy
494 8,4 | to do with the essence of God, is ultimately incomprehensible
495 8,4 | but to intuition as well. God is absolutely transcendent,
496 8,4 | unapproachable.~ On the other hand, God is not cut off from the
497 8,4 | has made: He is a living God Who comes down from above
498 8,4 | Such are the energies of God: they are visible and perceivable
499 8,4 | from the inaccessibility of God. Thus, people can behold
500 8,4 | Thus, people can behold God through His energies, but
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