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501 8,5 | 5.~ God is a Trinity of three Persons,
502 8,7 | a concept depersonalizes God's unity.~ Orthodoxy, following
503 8,7 | affirms that there is one God because there is one Father.
504 8,8 | stated above, there is one God because there is one Father.
505 8,9 | Orthodoxy sees the principle of God's unity as personal, Roman
506 8,10| refers to the relation of God to creation.~ Where the
507 8,13| from the Son is because God the Father is the unique
508 8,14| heretic who spoke of one God with three modes or aspects
509 8,14| falsely taught that the same God appeared as the Father in
510 8,14| other words, he denied that God is three distinct Persons).
511 8,14| principle in the essence of God. In Latin Scholastic theology,
512 8,14| This Western view conceives God not so much in personal
513 8,14| Persons, well-nigh turns God into an abstract idea. No
514 8,14| idea. No longer is He the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
515 8,14| and impersonal being, a God of the philosophers Whose
516 8,14| philosophical “proofs” of God's existence, bequeathed
517 8,14| question of whether or not God exists. This issue was then
518 8,14| dedicated to the question of God's existence. Even today,
519 8,14| tied to the question of God's existence.~ To learn of
520 8,14| existence.~ To learn of God by questioning His existence
521 8,14| assume the existence of God. Also, what is important
522 8,14| the concrete and personal God, and how he can be united
523 8,14| Trinity was suppressed. God's name was dropped in many
524 8,14| rather than the One True God, the Holy Trinity.~ (Parenthetically,
525 8,14| expense of the threeness, and God is conceived not in terms
526 8,14| Holy Spirit to the Son of God. Fr. Victor Potapov notes
527 8,14| overemphasis on the unity of God and the subordination of
528 8,14| where the West stressed God's unity at the expense of
529 8,14| two differing concepts of God are inextricably bound up
530 8,15| Trinitarian theology dealing with God's attributes. As the textbook
531 8,15| As the textbook mentions, God is absolutely transcendent,
532 8,15| and He is an Incarnate God.~ ~ ~
533 9,1 | made for fellowship with God.~ ~
534 9,2 | creation of man was an act of God.~ ~
535 9,3 | image and b) likeness of God in the creation of man?~
536 9,3 | in the beginning.~ ~And God said: let Us make man in
537 9,3 | creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image,
538 9,3 | own image, in the image of God created He him; male and
539 9,3 | emphasis on the image of God in man. Image is taken to
540 9,3 | existence, is endowed by God. To be created in God's
541 9,3 | by God. To be created in God's image means that people
542 9,3 | image means that people are God's offspring and that between
543 9,3 | offspring and that between God and man is an essential
544 9,3 | may become, the image of God in him is indestructible.
545 9,3 | is said that the image of God in man is stronger than
546 9,3 | angels.~ The likeness of God, however, is given in the
547 9,3 | work for. Man is created in God's image and can know and
548 9,3 | to become ever more like God for all eternity. If man
549 9,3 | faculty for communion with God, he acquires by degree a
550 9,3 | Damascus, “assimilated to God through virtue.” Likeness,
551 9,3 | conjunction with the grace of God, of course). As Archpriest
552 9,3 | comments:~ ~The likeness of God depends on the direction
553 9,3 | for the righteousness of God, then he becomes like God.
554 9,3 | God, then he becomes like God. However, if a man loves
555 9,3 | to be in the likeness of God and becomes in his life
556 9,3 | spirit, a devil [The Law of God, p. 112].~ ~Parenthetically,
557 9,3 | to note that the name of God (Elohim in the Hebrew text)
558 9,3 | plural form of the name of God appears even earlier in
559 9,3 | expresses the Tri-Unity of God (there are twelve such passages)
560 9,3 | stand around the throne of God offer doxology in triple
561 9,3 | to the Holy Trinity, to God's Tri-Personal Being.~ Protopresbyter
562 9,3 | the Trinity of Persons of God. This truth, Fr. Michael
563 9,3 | As another writer adds, God did not yet reveal Himself
564 9,3 | reveal Himself as a Triune God lest the Hebrews apostatize
565 9,3 | plurality of the Tri-Hypostatic God is more explicitly revealed
566 9,3 | of the indivisible Triune God. After the Apostles, the
567 9,4 | cites to show that we are God's offspring.~ I said, you
568 9,5 | endowed in his creation with God's image, man was called
569 9,5 | man was called to acquire God's likeness through his own
570 9,5 | endeavors in cooperating with God's grace. Adam started out
571 9,5 | perfection.” In other words, God set Adam on the right path,
572 9,6 | Gregory Palamas wrote: “When God is said to have made man
573 9,7 | saluting the image (or icon) of God in each person. Censing
574 9,7 | desire that the grace of God might envelop the faithful,
575 9,7 | instituted in worship by God Himself, as is shown in
576 9,7 | of deep thanksgiving to God's countless blessings to
577 9,7 | incense as an offering to God, like the offering of Abel'
578 9,7 | representation of a heart praying to God, Moreover, it expresses
579 9,7 | saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hands” (
580 9,8 | 8.~ When God created man, He did not
581 9,8 | want man to be to Him?~ God wanted man to be a son to
582 9,11| fellow-workers [synergoi] with God (1 Cor. 3:9).~ ~
583 9,12| achieve full fellowship with God. Although man can do nothing
584 9,12| anticipated and upheld by God's grace, and although the
585 9,12| and although the work that God does is of immeasurably
586 9,12| work toward fellowship with God is the surrender of His
587 9,12| human means of union with God. “Sacrifice and offering
588 9,12| I come to do Thy will, 0 God” (Heb 10:5, 9). A person'
589 9,12| A person's union with God requires the cooperation
590 9,12| will, and too little to God.~ ~
591 9,13| of man and the purpose of God. God, Who always respects
592 9,13| and the purpose of God. God, Who always respects human
593 9,13| of the Virgin.... Just as God became incarnate voluntarily,
594 9,13| s obedient submission to God's will stands in direct
595 9,14| The textbook explains:~ ~God knocks, but waits for man
596 9,14| break it down. The grace of God invites all but compels
597 9,14| words of John Chrysostom: “God never draws anyone to Himself
598 9,14| forces no one.” “It is for God to grant His grace,” said
599 9,14| a man accepts and guards God's grace, he thereby earns
600 9,14| he thereby earns merit. God's gifts are always free
601 9,15| call the original sin). God gave Adam a free will either
602 9,15| that he could become like God solely by his own effort
603 9,15| path marked out for him by God. The fall lay in Adam's
604 9,15| elevated his own will against God's, and in so doing, he separated
605 9,15| he separated himself from God.~ Adam's rebellion resulted
606 9,15| in. In turning away from God, Who is immortality and
607 9,15| since man was cut off from God, Adam and his descendants
608 9,15| to attain the likeness of God. However, Orthodoxy does
609 9,15| deprived man completely of God's grace (although after
610 9,15| and thus was deprived of God's grace. (At the end of
611 9,15| ever written). Even though God's likeness can be distorted
612 9,15| created in the image of God, and that image can never
613 9,15| still retains the image of God, he still retains a free
614 9,15| that even after the fall, God “takes not away from man
615 9,15| state can be pleasing to God since all actions are tainted
616 9,15| and cannot be pleasing to God, and likewise the Latin
617 9,15| actions being pleasing to God before Baptism and justification.
618 9,15| every virtue. They are in God's providence. St. Gregory
619 9,15| that anyway, the journey to God and participation in the
620 9,15| set up a barrier between God and man, a barrier that
621 9,15| in the way of union with God, and man needed to be saved.
622 9,15| man could not draw near to God, God came to man. As Bishop
623 9,15| could not draw near to God, God came to man. As Bishop Alexander
624 9,15| having fallen away from God, turned out to be too weak
625 9,15| of darkness, the Son of God was obliged to come into
626 9,16| use to define the act of God's Incarnation?~ The textbook
627 9,16| Incarnation?~ The textbook defines God's Incarnation as an act
628 9,16| Incarnation as an act of God's philanthropia. It interprets
629 9,16| interprets this word as God's loving-kindness towards
630 9,17| 17.~ Would God have become incarnate even
631 9,17| even had man never fallen, God in His love for mankind
632 9,17| of the eternal purpose of God.~ ~
633 9,18| fall, the Incarnation of God the Word became even more
634 9,18| salvation. By uniting man and God in His Person, God the Word
635 9,18| man and God in His Person, God the Word reopened the way
636 9,18| men to be “at one” with God. Christ demonstrated in
637 9,18| what the true likeness of God is, and by His saving and
638 9,19| Christians behold the Triune God.” In these words the bishop
639 9,19| Councils, is that He is true God and true man, one Person
640 9,19| the image of the invisible God” (Col 1:15). “In Him dwelleth
641 9,19| person who sees Christ sees God the Father. Christ is “true
642 9,19| Father. Christ is “true God from true God,” the Nicene
643 9,19| Christ is “true God from true God,” the Nicene Creed states, “
644 9,19| reflection of the glory of God and the express image of
645 9,19| Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (
646 9,19| with God, and the Word was God” (Jn 1:1).~ ~
647 9,22| Christ, but a suffering God on the Cross. In the third
648 9,22| still discerns the Triune God.~ Orthodoxy sees that the
649 9,24| of Christ as a suffering God. The West dwells on the
650 9,26| acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer
651 9,26| acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.~ ~Concerning this explanation,
652 9,28| Messiah-King, the Spirit of God would be “poured out on
653 9,28| show, on the one hand, that God is a consuming fire, while
654 9,28| and the manifestation of God's grace in the Church's
655 9,28| insures the existence of God's kingdom on earth. The
656 9,28| Spirit guides Christians to God's life, truth and love.
657 9,28| Christians are made children of God. As the Apostle Paul instructs: “
658 9,28| by the Spirit are sons of God. For you did not receive
659 9,28| that we are children of God” (Rom 8:14-15). The Holy
660 9,28| Christians every gift from God and divine help for those
661 9,28| the possibility of sharing God's divine nature and life,
662 9,28| John the Baptist stated: “God giveth not the Spirit by
663 9,28| things with the energies of God in His role as the divine
664 9,29| participation in the grace of God.~ The Orthodox Church teaches
665 9,29| teaches that to become a god is the final goal at which
666 9,29| received the order to become a god, and St. Seraphim of Sarov
667 9,29| Athanasius stated that God became man that man might
668 9,29| man that man might become god.~ In speaking of theosis,
669 9,29| essence and energies of God (vide chapter 8 answer 4).
670 9,29| Instead, it is a union with God in His energies, or union
671 9,29| becoming thereby the essence of God [Cf. The Mystical Theology
672 9,29| is the very energies of God Himself. Through the ministry
673 9,30| the image and likeness of God in the Holy Trinity.~ ~
674 9,33| and organic union between God and man, a union of God
675 9,33| God and man, a union of God dwelling in His people and
676 9,35| understanding of union with God? Your answer should have
677 9,35| of pantheism. Union with God in no wise involves union
678 9,35| grace acquires all that God has, without also being
679 9,35| closely he becomes united to God. Although the union between
680 9,35| Although the union between God and man is a true union,
681 9,35| deified state is distinct from God (although not separate from
682 9,35| the Confessor wrote that “God and those who are worthy
683 9,35| those who are worthy of God have one and the same energy” [
684 9,35| will into compliance with God's will.~ Lastly, man's becoming
685 9,35| Lastly, man's becoming a god does not put an end to his
686 9,35| creatures while becoming god by grace, as Christ remained
687 9,35| grace, as Christ remained God when becoming Man by the
688 9,35| explains. Man can never become God by nature, but becomes merely
689 9,35| becomes merely a created god, a god by grace or status.~
690 9,35| merely a created god, a god by grace or status.~ To
691 9,35| theosis, something from God, is not to be confused with
692 9,35| concept of a higher force, a god of forces, in which every
693 9,35| was the co-creator with God of the cosmos.... The tragedy
694 9,35| other than self. For you are God. To love self is to love
695 9,35| To love self is to love God.... I know that I exist,
696 9,35| therefore I am. I know that the God source exists, therefore
697 9,35| of the rebellion against God by Lucifer, who was so overcome
698 9,35| place his throne in place of God's throne?~ ~According to
699 9,35| understand what true union with God is, and what its New Age
700 9,38| brothers, I beseech you by God's mercy to offer your bodies
701 9,38| as a living sacrifice to God (Rom 12:1).~ It is sometimes
702 9,38| transformed by the grace of God. The body is sanctified
703 9,38| as the soul) belongs to God.~ Because of the sanctification
704 9,38| understand that the grace of God that was present in the
705 9,38| after their repose, and that God uses these relics as a channel
706 9,38| foundation in the fact that God Himself has deigned to honor
707 9,38| remains of the saints of God, as is known from accounts
708 9,38| to them of the saints of God themselves, who once wore
709 9,38| notes that by the will of God, the bodies of some saints
710 9,38| saints, a visible sign of God's blessing residing in their
711 9,39| alive, and these are used by God as a channel of divine power
712 9,39| with eager expectation for God's sons to be revealed...
713 9,39| splendor of the children of God. We know that until now
714 9,39| full mystical union with God, but every true Christian
715 9,39| Christian who tries to love God and keep His commandments (
716 9,39| Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.” (
717 9,39| progressed in union with God. The textbook explains that “
718 9,39| regular basis, praying to God “in spirit and truth,” the
719 9,39| by Christ as the love of God and the love of neighbor.
720 9,39| neighbor only if he loves God above all else, and ...
721 9,39| he has seen, cannot love God Whom he has not seen. And
722 9,39| from Him, that he who loves God should love his brother
723 9,39| win our neighbor we win God, but if we cause our neighbor
724 9,39| the image and likeness of God, can only realize the divine
725 9,39| of the uncreated grace of God. The Mysteries are the means
726 9,39| the means established by God whereby people acquire the
727 9,40| full mystical union with God in this life, and people
728 9,42| torment until it is saved by God, and since all members of
729 9,42| biological Engineer” (that is, God) built into organisms to
730 9,42| because the knowledge of God was still in people's memories.
731 9,42| progeny lived far away from God as they began to scatter
732 9,42| maintained a knowledge of God, however limited, by word
733 9,42| sins that separate men from God, their reason was clouded,
734 9,42| forget the invisible true God, the Creator of the world.
735 9,42| teach people true faith in God. Concurrent with this development,
736 9,42| the earth — the sons of God and the daughters of men (
737 9,42| Fathers understand the sons of God to be the offspring of Seth,
738 9,42| maintained a knowledge of God, albeit an imperfect knowledge.
739 9,42| personal reconciliation with God and repentance before Him
740 9,42| It is from these sons of God that faith in one God was
741 9,42| of God that faith in one God was passed on to Abraham
742 9,42| nations, the truth of one God was becoming darkened, and
743 9,42| captivity.~ These sons of God are also the giants mentioned
744 9,42| were called the sons of God because through them, Christ
745 9,42| their life on earth without God, following the example of
746 9,42| of the true followers of God and the apostates from Him,
747 9,42| described it, the City of God and the City of Man. It
748 9,42| creatures saw the light of God's image in Adam's face,
749 9,42| however, after Adam disobeyed God's command, this acknowledgement
750 9,42| created in the image of God. In Adam, the image of God
751 9,42| God. In Adam, the image of God was the clear mirror through
752 9,42| through which the light of God reflects on nature. As long
753 9,42| the image and likeness of God. He becomes a mirror, a
754 9,42| Adam was in the image of God, but he had to reach to
755 9,42| reach to the likeness of God through obedience. He was
756 9,42| attains to “the likeness of God” (divinization) as far as
757 9,42| the uncreated energies of God. I shall give you an example
758 9,42| through unceasing prayer to God, Whom they loved so deeply,
759 9,42| deeply, restored the image of God in themselves. By becoming
760 9,42| from the vegetable kingdom. God said to the parents of the
761 9,42| become lower, more fallen. God sees that men will continue
762 10 | 10. The Church of God.~ ~ ~
763 10,1 | likewise instructed that God the Father “gave Him to
764 10,3 | states, since the Kingdom of God is given to men by Christ
765 10,3 | states that the Word of God teaches that God Himself
766 10,3 | Word of God teaches that God Himself founded the Church,
767 10,3 | sins erodes the likeness of God in him so that he becomes
768 10,5 | Church in isolation from God. The Church is always thought
769 10,5 | existing between the Church and God. The Orthodox doctrine of
770 10,6 | the image of the Triune God, so the Church as a whole
771 10,7 | Chalcedon taught that the Son of God must be confessed in two
772 10,9 | is one from the fact that God is one. “[The Church's]
773 10,9 | necessity from the unity of God,” he writes.~ ~
774 10,10| divided, for it is one as God is one. There can be only
775 10,10| Christ.~ ~/.../ Undoubtedly God will have mercy and compassion
776 10,10| confesses Christ as the Son of God and accepts His Gospel.
777 10,10| the reading of the word of God has a beneficial influence
778 10,10| that devout reflection on God the Creator, the Provider
779 10,10| Omnipresent Good Provider God is over them, and they are
780 10,10| they are not deprived of God's mercies. They help to
781 10,10| prayer of the Mother of God and the saints, and likewise
782 10,10| grounds that they all “lead to God,” and besides, taken all
783 10,12| leads to a relativization of God's Truth. As Archimandrite
784 10,13| instructed: “A man cannot have God as his Father if he does
785 10,14| mysterious sense known only to God and containing people who
786 10,14| opines, for it is known to God alone. However, he concludes,
787 10,14| its members are united to God and one another by their
788 10,14| leave them to the mercy of God and do not pass judgment
789 10,14| Scriptures show that ultimately, God looks upon the heart of
790 10,14| to encounter Orthodoxy, God can save them.~ In the concluding
791 10,14| are certain things that God has chosen not to reveal
792 10,14| concern ourselves with whether God will save others or how.
793 10,14| non-Christians?” The elder replied:~ ~God desires not only that the
794 10,15| Church.~ The unity between God and His Church is spoken
795 10,15| Christ (Eph 5, Rev 21); God's Living Temple (Eph 2,
796 10,15| is from this unity with God that the Church as a whole
797 10,16| knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto
798 10,16| comprise a single flock of God. All are equal before the
799 10,16| equal before the judgment of God. However, just as parts
800 10,16| Apostles: Feed the flock of God (1 Peter 5:2).~ ~The Apostles
801 10,16| directed to total service to God and Church in body and soul.
802 10,16| He is the living image of God upon earth... and a fountain
803 10,16| bishop is called upon by God to rule and guide the flock
804 10,19| on the laity according to God's economy of salvation,
805 10,19| do guard it, for all of God's people possess the truth (
806 10,19| by papism: the people of God are the defenders of the
807 10,20| last, righteous judgment of God, whoever does not believe
808 10,20| directly in the Word of God, this our duty with regard
809 10,20| living. “For He is not a God of the dead, but of the
810 10,20| the “one Mediator between God and men.” Thus the Orthodox
811 10,20| the living and departed in God and in His Church. Whether
812 10,20| all are one in the love of God.~ The departed members of
813 10,20| separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
814 10,20| Likewise from the word of God it is known that Christ
815 10,20| prayers and with the mercy of God. Nothing can revive rotten
816 10,20| might sincerely pray to God for them, and they have
817 10,21| the one Mediator between God and men” and contradicts
818 10,21| that one should worship God alone. The Protestants consider
819 10,21| and are more proximate to God than we, that they mediate
820 10,21| rendering of divine honor to God alone is spoken of; but
821 10,21| the saints. We venerate God's grace, which resides in
822 10,21| resides in them; we venerate God, Who, according to the words
823 10,21| which is really proper to God alone. It is sufficient
824 10,21| unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
825 10,21| written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to
826 10,21| allowed to behold the image of God. Others still were exalted
827 10,21| intercede for us before God in Heaven. This is shown
828 10,21| Theotokos. Remember her, O Lord God, and by her pure and holy
829 10,21| prayers and intercession God might receive our petition.”~
830 10,22| holy people who pleased God by a righteous life while
831 10,22| Orthodox do not look upon God's favored ones as being
832 10,22| intercessors before the throne of God.~ In addition to what was
833 10,22| power to intercede before God for sinful people”! God
834 10,22| God for sinful people”! God Himself commanded a king
835 10,22| doomed to destruction by God; the Lord accepted the prayer
836 10,22| Jeremiah, the prophet of God, who prays much for the
837 10,22| from a censer, rise before God, and He receives them with
838 10,22| favor. Thus, the Word of God clearly teaches us to call
839 10,22| send up their prayers to God for us; and that He, the
840 10,22| such divisions exist with God. “With Him [God], all are
841 10,22| exist with God. “With Him [God], all are alive” (Lk 20:
842 10,22| ready to intercede before God on our behalf. They love
843 10,22| condition because they love God and are in communion with
844 10,22| with Him. By the grace of God, and because of their union
845 10,22| intercede for us before God. Moreover, God listens to
846 10,22| us before God. Moreover, God listens to their prayers
847 10,22| saints earned for themselves God's eternal good will. They
848 10,22| eternal good will. They are God's favorite ones who have
849 10,22| access to Him. As the Word of God says concerning the effectiveness
850 10,22| their Name Day. To revere God's righteous servants in
851 10,22| saints, Christians honor God Himself, Whom the saints
852 10,23| the Most Pure Mother of God. The Archangel Gabriel venerated
853 10,23| Elizabeth, the Mother of God replied that from henceforth,
854 10,23| 196-97].~ ~The Mother of God, the daughter of the aged
855 10,23| selection to be the Mother of God took five and a half millennia
856 10,23| through the creative action of God's Holy Spirit, God fashioned
857 10,23| action of God's Holy Spirit, God fashioned from her all-pure
858 10,23| Jesus, the Son and Word of God. Through a life of holiness,
859 10,23| have always taught that “God became man so that man might
860 10,23| that people might share God's nature (2 Peter 1:4).
861 10,23| 2 Peter 1:4). However, God did not wish to become incarnate
862 10,23| and obedient submission to God's will that she become an
863 10,23| to share in the life of God. Had it not been for Mary'
864 10,23| synergy (cooperation) between God's purpose and the will of
865 10,23| will of man. The Mother of God is, as the Archangel Gabriel
866 10,23| the latter, the birth of God from the Ever-Virgin proved
867 10,23| attack against the Mother of God. They did not deny that
868 10,23| at the end of the world, God's righteousness shall no
869 10,23| eyes look unto the Lord our God, until He takes pity on
870 10,23| blasphemed the Mother of God, the entire Protestant world
871 10,23| teaching on the Mother of God. Even to this day, Protestantism
872 10,23| ever-virginity of the Mother of God. Also, the flippant irreverence
873 10,23| it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered
874 10,23| prophecy of the birth of God from a virgin, and also
875 10,23| was hers as the Mother of God, but preferred instead to
876 10,23| Apostles greeted the Mother of God with great joy and began
877 10,23| Mary, the Birthgiver of God, p. 23].~ ~The God-pleasing
878 10,23| Saint John continues:~ ~If God the Father chose her, God
879 10,23| God the Father chose her, God the Holy Spirit descended
880 10,23| descended upon her, and God the Son dwelt in her, submitted
881 10,23| Mary is the Mother of our God and the most exalted among
882 10,23| the most exalted among all God's creatures. In the titles
883 10,23| Theotokos (Birthgiver of God) and Aeiparthenos (Ever-Virgin).
884 10,23| the Most Pure Mother of God and venerate her. Many times
885 10,24| Greek for Birthgiver of God. The Fathers of the Council
886 10,24| veneration of the Mother of God can never detract from the
887 10,24| detract from the worship of God. In fact, just the opposite
888 10,24| our life unto Christ our God.”~ ~
889 10,25| developed toward the Mother of God after the West severed itself
890 10,25| veneration of the Mother of God, and denies calling on her
891 10,25| incorrect view of the Mother of God is one invented by the Roman
892 10,25| Mother, and as Spouse of God, the Holy Virgin is exalted
893 10,25| exalted to an equality with God. Although the Latin Church
894 10,25| deification of the Mother of God. At present, Roman Catholic
895 10,25| highly exalts the Mother of God, but it does not dare to
896 10,25| venerates the Mother of God in the sense of honoring
897 10,25| worship which is given to God alone. Greek theology is
898 10,25| which is the worship of God, and duleia, hyperdu-leia,
899 10,25| and that she is equal to God. All of Rome's teachings
900 10,25| to glorify Mary more than God has glorified her, and all
901 10,25| striving to put her in place of God.” [Against the Antidikomarionites].~
902 10,26| extremes consider the Mother of God either born perfect (Roman
903 10,26| pure life of the Mother of God had been rebuked, as well
904 10,26| dignity as the Mother of God, and those who disdained
905 10,26| the glory of the Mother of God. This new false teaching
906 10,26| special grace of Almighty God and by a special privilege,
907 10,26| conception, the Mother of God was preserved from original
908 10,26| from original sin and, by God's grace, was placed in a
909 10,26| to her of the Mother of God, wherein Mary told her she
910 10,26| affirmed that the Mother of God did in fact participate
911 10,26| pleasing to the Mother of God to give her as much glory
912 10,26| to glorify the Mother of God on the one hand, and on
913 10,26| greater glory of the Mother of God, to whom they felt they
914 10,26| sanctity of the Mother of God. In none of the excerpts
915 10,26| ancient Fathers state that God miraculously purified the
916 10,26| however, is that the Mother of God, just as all human beings,
917 10,26| the “one Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ” (
918 10,26| life on earth” (Job 14:4); “God commendeth His own love
919 10,26| enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His
920 10,26| alone, Jesus Christ our God, Who didst appear on earth
921 10,26| that she was preserved by God's grace from personal sins,
922 10,26| from personal sins, makes God unmerciful and unjust. If
923 10,26| unmerciful and unjust. If God could preserve Mary from
924 10,26| from Rome's teaching that God saves people apart from
925 10,26| evil, and was preserved by God's grace from every impurity,
926 10,26| she did not sin because God made it impossible for her
927 10,26| for her to sin, why did God glorify her? If there were
928 10,26| passions like us,” so loved God and gave herself over to
929 10,26| her a blind instrument of God's providence [The Orthodox
930 10,26| Mary, the Birthgiver of God, pp. 59-60].~ ~St. John
931 10,26| can glorify the Mother of God by seeking out new truths
932 10,26| belittlement to the Mother of God. So exalted was Mary's life
933 10,26| Heaven, and so much has God Himself glorified her, that
934 10,26| blaspheme the Mother of God. The Most Holy Mother of
935 10,26| The Most Holy Mother of God rejects the lie, being the
936 10,27| her death, the Mother of God prayed to Christ to deliver
937 10,27| Dormition of the Mother of God. Moreover, all of the Apostles (
938 10,27| cooperation with the will of God, and of all who follow her
939 10,27| humility. It is a sign that all God's faithful people, after
940 10,27| become temples of the living God and that they will share
941 10,27| that they will share in God's Kingdom.~ In addition
942 10,27| one in special relation to God the Word and the other as
943 10,27| venerate, by one adoration, God the Word made man, together
944 10,27| custom to worship separately God's love, His wisdom, His
945 10,27| Christ and the Mother of God is just as inappropriate
946 10,28| prodigal son. Both show God's immense forgiveness and
947 10,28| possibility: that one can reject God and turn from Him and choose
948 10,28| left hand, the curse of God is upon you, go from My
949 10,28| and elsewhere, the Word of God speaks with positiveness
950 10,28| vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel
951 10,28| are the estrangement from God, and the wasting away of
952 10,28| basing itself on the Word of God, acknowledges the torments
953 10,28| with the belief in a loving God. The same Fr. Michael addresses
954 10,28| torments and the goodness of God is pointed out, as is the
955 10,28| which is blessedness in God.~ Fr. Michael writes that
956 10,28| the unutterable mercy of God and His justice or righteousness.
957 10,28| of rejecting the mercy of God and the means of salvation.
958 10,28| good and full of pity as God, but even He does not forgive
959 10,28| mistaken notion subjects one to God's wrath according to the
960 10,28| the ungodly one provoked God? For he hath said in his
961 10,28| of anger in relation to God is conditional and anthropomorphic,
962 10,28| the Great, who states:~ ~God is good, dispassionate and
963 10,28| and true to affirm that God does not change, may well
964 10,28| is possible to speak of God as rejoicing over those
965 10,28| it must be answered that God neither rejoices nor grows
966 10,28| good through resembling God, are united to Him; but
967 10,28| evil through not resembling God, we are separated from Him.
968 10,28| in holiness, we cleave to God; but by becoming wicked
969 10,28| our own sins that prevent God from shining within us,
970 10,28| not mean that we have won God over and made Him change,
971 10,28| actions and our turning to God we have cured our wickedness
972 10,28| once more have enjoyment of God's goodness. Thus to say
973 10,28| goodness. Thus to say that God turns away from the wicked
974 10,28| How much of the powers of God was revealed! How he himself
975 10,28| responsibility, the fear of offending God, and the awareness of the
976 10,28| from the commandment of God. But to just the same degree
977 10,28| same degree does hope in God's mercy grow. To hope in
978 10,28| Church does not teach that God tortures evildoers with
979 10,28| physical agony. Rather, God will reveal Himself in such
980 10,28| those who have rejected God is the fire of God's love. “
981 10,28| rejected God is the fire of God's love. “For our God is
982 10,28| of God's love. “For our God is a consuming fire” (Heb
983 10,28| Those who have denied God are not deprived of God'
984 10,28| God are not deprived of God's love in hell, but for
985 10,28| sore affliction. For them, God's consuming fire will be
986 10,28| accustomed to, but a fire such as God might know” [Exact Exposition
987 10,28| Lossky adds that “the love of God will be an intolerable torment
988 10,28| While the wicked experience God's love as suffering, the
989 10,28| deprived of the love of God.... But love acts in two
990 10,28| measured, and in the sight of God. We can go back five, six,
991 10,28| enjoy the first fruits of God's Kingdom while the Age
992 10,29| chapter is about the Church of God. As such, its most important
993 11,1 | where they worship their God, and we knew not whether
994 11,1 | describe it. We know only that God dwells there among men,
995 11,1 | earth, and the sense of God's presence among men is
996 11,1 | that they knew only that God dwells there among men,
997 11,1 | teaches true belief about God, and which glorifies Him
998 11,1 | feeling of the presence of God, its liturgical approach —
999 11,3 | to venerate the Church of God. They raise their voices
1000 11,3 | things in the West, with God added as an afterthought,
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