Chapter,  Paragraph

501 6,2    |                Him. One may know about God and still not know Him personally.
502 6,2    |     distinction between learning about God through studies, books and
503 6,2    |            have arrived at a belief in God, but they have not come
504 6,2    |             they have not come to know God. There is a great difference
505 6,2    |      difference between affirming that God exists, or observing His
506 6,2    |                the other hand, knowing God through personal communion
507 6,2    |              adequately teach us about God. Staretz Silouan knew educated
508 6,2    |         However, he was convinced that God is not made known through
509 6,2    |            said and have thought about God, yet not know God personally.
510 6,2    |                about God, yet not know God personally. Sometimes knowledge
511 6,2    |          become an obstacle to knowing God, not because reason and
512 6,2    |           Revelation is personal. Only God reveals God. We may study
513 6,2    |             personal. Only God reveals God. We may study as much as
514 6,2    |               cannot control or compel God through human skill, ingenuity
515 6,2    |            Saint Silouan, knowledge of God is not a matter of speculation
516 6,2    |             are able to truly speak of God only insofar as we have
517 6,2    |               seen~they have not known God, but it does not at all
518 6,2    |             seek personal knowledge of God as his or her primary goal
519 6,2    |                 be humble, obedient to God, and fervent in prayer.
520 6,2    |              How personal knowledge of God occurs cannot be explained
521 6,3    |           Spirit Christ unites us with God and makes us one family
522 6,3    |          Unless we repent, the love of God remains no longer with us.~
523 6,3    |             whole wondrous assembly of God: the Virgin Mary, the angels,
524 6,4    |           awareness of the presence of God. Because of the personal
525 6,4    |             believer before the living God, prayer is the delicate
526 6,4    |             and knowledge he may have. God will honor the longing and
527 6,4    |             the assurance and love for God that comes to the mind.
528 6,4    |             and heart unceasingly with God. To think of God is already
529 6,4    |      unceasingly with God. To think of God is already a prayer. The
530 6,4    |           makes it a habit to think of God always carries God in his
531 6,4    |            think of God always carries God in his soul, just as one
532 6,4    |              more a believer thinks of God, the more he is fired with
533 6,4    |         mindful of Him. Remembrance of God begets prayer. But without
534 6,4    |            without prayer who can love God? If one is forgetful of
535 6,4    |                 If one is forgetful of God, he will not dwell in the
536 6,4    |               not dwell in the love of God, for the grace of the Holy
537 6,4    |             soul is the true temple of God. For the man who prays in
538 6,4    |             into a living sacrifice to God. This is the true spiritual
539 6,4    |           prayer. The person who loves God can keep Him in mind day
540 6,4    |                accompanied by peace of God in the soul and by a tender
541 6,4    |          prayer. Prayer is the path to God. By prayer we obtain humility,
542 6,4    |                No evil ever~comes from God. All the saints prayed without
543 6,4    |              good thought is lost with God. However, God sometimes
544 6,4    |                lost with God. However, God sometimes seems remote to
545 6,4    |              remote to us. We pray but God seems not to hear us. There
546 6,4    |           separate us from nearness to God and invalidate our prayers.~
547 6,4    |              care, love, and humility. God bestows His gifts on the
548 6,4    |              and continually dwells in God, he acquires exceeding spiritual
549 6,5    |              put on the whole armor of God, always ready to wage spiritual
550 6,5    |                persons to take hold of God's Kingdom.~ For all the
551 6,5    |               is primarily the work of God, not of human achievement.
552 6,5    |               oneself and the world to God as the center and source
553 6,5    |              less than a conversion to God and taking up battle against
554 6,5    |               in complete obedience to God. A human being cannot save
555 6,5    |             being cannot save himself. God alone saves. But to receive
556 6,5    |            alone saves. But to receive God's blessings and gifts, the
557 6,5    |              Christian must respond to God with all of his inner and
558 6,5    |             inner and outer resources. God both demands and deserves
559 6,5    |           quickly surrender the ego to God. The battle is simple and
560 6,5    |                because of the grace of God. Writes Silouan:~ ~Fierce
561 6,5    |               of the mind and heart to God. It is a profound yes to
562 6,5    |                It is a profound yes to God which leads to the formation
563 6,5    |            this fundamental turning to God to receive His help. Without
564 6,5    |               her enemies are. Without God's unfailing guidance, the
565 6,5    |          spiritual warfare is to place God at the center of life. Victory
566 6,5    |                on complete reliance on God. But surrender and obedience
567 6,5    |             surrender and obedience to God do not at all imply passivity.
568 6,5    |         Christian's activity is always God‑centered and love‑centered.
569 6,5    |               conscious communion with God and freely choosing the
570 6,5    |             insufficiency and turns to God. The Lord dearly loves man,
571 6,5    |              his weakness, his need of God, and entrust himself to
572 6,5    |             lapses into self‑reliance, God withdraws from him and delivers
573 6,5    |       lacerations of the soul. Without God, the soul experiences distress,
574 6,5    |             short step to the light of God. After repentance, the simplest
575 6,5    |          yourself, and so the grace of God abides not in your soul.[
576 6,5    |              he must at once repent to God. Otherwise the force of
577 6,5    |             the mind's separation from God which brings spiritual darkness.
578 6,5    |             Lord's commandment to love God with all of his mind, heart
579 6,5    |             and you lose experience of God's love. Follow your own
580 6,5    |                 and you fall away from God into the control of an evil
581 6,5    |               hand. Guard the grace of God for without it, a human
582 6,5    |               you, and offer thanks to God for all things. This is
583 6,5    |                to spiritual victory by God's grace.~ ~
584 6,6    |                intuitively sensed that God has His ways with all of
585 6,6    |               all people might turn to God and come to know His love.
586 6,6    |            with evident satisfaction: “God will punish all atheists.
587 6,6    |             for those who did not know God. He wrote: “Day and night
588 6,6    |                This is an image of how God loves us, gently and without
589 6,6    |           himself is at fault. Love of God and love of neighbor are
590 6,6    |               Silouan is lyrical about God's love as reflected in the
591 6,6    |                better than the love of God when the Lord fires the~
592 6,6    |           fires the~soul with love for God and our fellow‑man... The
593 6,6    |             the delight of~the love of God... loves both God and man (
594 6,6    |              love of God... loves both God and man (and) knows in part
595 6,6    |               part that the Kingdom~of God is within us. Blessed is
596 6,6    |              for those who affront us, God works impossible things
597 6,6    |            pity because they were once God's creatures now fallen from
598 6,6    |         Silouan, “what would I have of God, what gifts, I should answer: '
599 6,6    |            Silouan prayed fervently to God saying: “Tell me what I
600 6,6    |             him despair not because of God's love which forgives, reconciles
601 6,6    |             self‑will and obedience to God's will under all circumstances
602 6,6    |           person does not want to obey God. He likes to be his own
603 6,6    |                was helping him to keep God’s~commandments. And he does
604 6,6    |               serenity and holiness in God.~ Silouan was greatly attracted
605 7,1    |               that a serious breach of God's law had occurred and apparently
606 7,1    |       provision had to be applied lest God's will be subverted and
607 7,1    |                Christ's teaching about God's love and mercy toward
608 7,1    |              Jesus was concerned about God's ultimate purpose behind
609 7,1    |             purpose behind the law and God's will for this woman —
610 7,1    |               advocating subversion of God's law or contradicting his
611 7,1    |                 dramatic expression of God's love and forgiveness toward
612 7,2    |                sense of relatedness to God. The obvious challenge is
613 7,3    |       concreteness — its experience of God, worship, core teachings
614 7,3    |                 the self-disclosure of God himself as a gift to be
615 7,3    |                ecclesial experience of God is not a reality located
616 7,3    |                a concentrated locus of God's gracious action and the
617 7,3    |           cooperative dynamics between God's saving presence and the
618 7,3    |         reality from the standpoint of God. The adjective theological
619 7,3    |               signify the knowledge of God as metaphysical speculation
620 7,3    |              the revealed knowledge of God, as we know it especially
621 7,3    |               on and interpretation of God's self-disclosure for the
622 7,3    |          grounded in the experience of God in the life of the Church.
623 7,3    |            deeper and wider aspects of God's presence and God's truth,
624 7,3    |          aspects of God's presence and God's truth, make the appropriate
625 7,4    |                elementary knowledge of God's truths and God's will
626 7,4    |          knowledge of God's truths and God's will about what is good
627 7,4    |              the image and likeness of God, a beclouding of reason
628 7,4    |                is through the grace of God and the stable practice
629 7,4    |       centering the mind on the living God, freeing persons from ingrained
630 7,4    |   consciousness of grace, awareness of God's presence, spiritual vision,
631 7,4    |             vision, that is, vision of God, as the etymology of the
632 7,4    |              term theoria (theoro=“see God”)indicates. However, it
633 7,4    |              of the uncreated glory of God in its greater reality,
634 7,4    |            abiding lively awareness of God's presence — precisely a
635 7,4    |               prayer brings one before God's presence, spiritual discernment
636 7,4    |               prayerful communion with God. In the former case discernment
637 7,4    |               of theoria, knowledge of God is no longer simply pedagogical
638 7,4    |                personal communion with God. Theology becomes spirituality
639 7,4    |          degree but a person who knows God through faith, goodness,
640 7,4    |           mystical level of union with God in His uncreated light and
641 7,4    |        repentance and a life worthy of God. “It is not [your] theological
642 7,5    |       illumination or theoria. How can God's people be guided with
643 7,5    |              relationships, namely, to God, to self, to others (including
644 7,5    |        category of the relationship to God the pastor could appropriately
645 7,5    |             depth of relationship with God in terms of specific criteria
646 7,5    |        distance from or communion with God. He then could apply therapy
647 7,5    |              appreciation of things as God's gifts to be enjoyed, shared,
648 7,5    |             Since all truth in life is God’s truth, theologians, pastors,
649 8,3    |             His concern was about what God was doing in Christ among
650 8,3    |       understands as the revelation of God's righteousness — the demonstration
651 8,3    |   righteousness — the demonstration of God’s saving action in fulfillment
652 8,3    |               need Christ through whom God offers universal salvation
653 8,3    |              wrapped in the mystery of God's inscrutable ways. How
654 8,3    |             What is one to think about God's faithfulness to His promises?
655 8,3    |               to His promises? What is God's plan about Jews and Gentiles
656 8,3    |              heritage when enumerating God's many gifts to the Jews: “
657 8,3    |           privilege of “the oracles of God” (ta logia Theou), the Scriptures,
658 8,3    |            Jews have been entrusted by God. According to Saint Paul'
659 8,3    |               and who have attained to God's righteousness in Christ (
660 8,3    |         believe in [their] hearts that God raised Him from the dead,”
661 8,3    |             equally valid covenants by God, one for Jews and the other
662 8,3    |            ultimately been rejected by God as His people — “by no means!” (
663 8,3    |          otherwise the faithfulness of God to His own promises would
664 8,3    |            They may now be “enemies of God” pertaining to the Gospel
665 8,3    |            beloved and elect people of God, although now paradoxically
666 8,3    |          disobedience (Rom. 11:28-32). God's plan is to consign all
667 8,3    |              divine mystery is that by God's power all Israel will
668 8,3    |             doxological affirmation of God's inscrutable wisdom (Rom.
669 8,3    |              Jews as being accursed by God. Rather, he expresses astonishing
670 8,3    |              awe before the mystery of God (Rom. 11:18-25). However,
671 8,3    |              is temporary according to God's plan has a beginning (
672 8,3    |          really fulfilled in Christ is God's promise to Abraham, not
673 8,3    |                promise to Abraham, not God's gift to Moses (Gal. 3).~
674 8,4    |           centered on faith in the one God, the Law and a profound
675 8,4    |           christological titles Son of God and Lord, the contrast between
676 8,4    |            conversion as a “call” from God using the language of Jeremiah
677 8,4    |                of Jeremiah and Isaiah. God had set him apart “from
678 8,4    |    uncircumcised “entrusted” to him by God (Gal. 2:1,7). In this special “
679 8,4    |              special “commission” from God lies his “necessity” to
680 8,4    |           fulfilling a special role in God's design pertaining to the
681 8,4    |             might reconcile us both to God in one body” (Eph. 2:14-
682 8,4    |                Christians there is one God, the Father, and one Lord,
683 8,4    |                 do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews
684 8,4    |             Greeks or to the Church of God” (10:31-32).~ How could
685 8,4    |                faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all” (Eph.
686 9,2    |            Teacher, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
687 9,2    |              worthy to know the Son of God.”~ And, surely, the Sunday
688 9,2    |          living and vibrant witness to God, a burning bush glowing
689 9,2    |             eternal Word and Wisdom of God, “who became flesh and dwelt
690 9,2    |              reveals to us the life of God, indeed, the fullness of
691 9,2    |                indeed, the fullness of God, the very character of God
692 9,2    |             God, the very character of God as light and life. The most
693 9,2    |              was in the beginning with God and all things were made
694 9,2    |              to us the full meaning of God. As no one else before Him
695 9,2    |         mystery of the true and living God. Why? In order that we may
696 9,2    |                may have communion with God, that we may share God’s
697 9,2    |            with God, that we may share God’s personal life, that we
698 9,2    |              particularly the image of God as a loving Father. What
699 9,2    |              hardly count. But not for God who freely gives of His
700 9,2    |         daughters. And it is of course God who is pictured as the Father
701 9,2    |                Father in that parable. God gave His property, freely
702 9,2    |              ask: What “property” does God give to each one of us?
703 9,2    |                very life and likeness. God has given us the capacity
704 9,2    |              the image and likeness of God in which we have been created.
705 9,2    |                Christ did, to show who God is, to explain and interpret
706 9,2    |               to explain and interpret God the Father by how we live
707 9,2    |                greatness and wisdom of God.~ Yet we often squander
708 9,2    |                  Yet we often squander God’s property by in fact abusing
709 9,2    |              know that everything that God has created is good.~ What
710 9,2    |           conflict and alienation from God, ourselves, and others.
711 9,2    |         choices which lead us to abuse God’s gifts.~ But the loving
712 9,2    |               what a glorious image of God our Lord Jesus has shown
713 9,2    |                of our sins, Christ our God. For by Your own free will
714 9,2    |           Redeemer. He is “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
715 9,2    |               mercy and forgiveness of God.~ Do not ask now for an
716 9,2    |              it. In the Old Testament, God stopped Abraham from offering
717 9,2    |          boundless love for the world, God did not spare His own Son
718 9,2    |                the words of St. Paul: “God shows His love for us in
719 9,2    |                us. . . . We rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
720 9,2    |                5:8,11). And again: “If God is for us, who is against
721 9,2    |              us, who is against us? If God did not spare His own Son
722 9,2    |              separate from the love of God in Jesus Christ — neither
723 9,2    |             Spirit through whom all of God’s gifts and mercies are
724 9,2    |             fullness of the mystery of God, the eternal three-foldness
725 9,2    |               the one, true and living God, namely, the great mystery
726 9,2    |            spoke of the Holy Spirit as God’s finger or power by which
727 9,2    |             the body of Christ. We are God’s holy people. We are the
728 9,2    |             the light and the glory of God.~ Why is Christ the precious
729 9,2    |              He is the eternal Word of God who reveals to us the loving
730 9,2    |               the Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark
731 9,3    |             our destiny as children of God. The most important icon,
732 9,3    |              the Cross in obedience to God’s will. And God raised Him
733 9,3    |           obedience to God’s will. And God raised Him from the dead,
734 9,3    |                 2:15). The triumph was God’s, a true triumph accomplished
735 9,3    |         shouted with one voice as to a god: “Hail, Caesar’s son! Hail,
736 9,3    |              Christian martyrs. But in God’s eyes this was not a triumph
737 9,3    |            self-glorification which in God’s eyes is not a triumph
738 9,3    |                credit and the glory to God, being grateful for His
739 9,3    |             The ancient prophets loved God and loved God’s people,
740 9,3    |           prophets loved God and loved God’s people, and because of
741 9,3    |                love, they spoke boldly God’s word in order to bring
742 9,3    |            means to speak on behalf of God — to be inspired, forthright,
743 9,3    |               to accountability before God. The aim of Father Hopko
744 9,3    |              and return to the path of God. For those who long to celebrate
745 9,3    |               we must intercede before God on behalf of all, witnessing
746 9,3    |                convert others which is God’s job, not ours. Thus, being
747 9,3    |                ourselves, we can bring God’s gift of freedom to others
748 9,3    |      intercessors and advocates before God, we must, just as Christ
749 9,3    |                triumph of Orthodoxy is God’s triumph, not ours. The
750 9,3    |           victory of the true Faith is God’s victory, not ours. The
751 9,3    |        rededicate ourselves tonight is God’s mission, not ours. We
752 9,3    |           glory because they belong to God alone. We are but participants
753 9,3    |                are but participants in God’s triumph, sharers of His
754 9,3    |      co-workers in His mission. We are God’s servants, His hands and
755 9,3    |               lost all standing before God because of his boastful
756 9,3    |               father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones
757 9,3    |             rely not on himself but on God whom he calls the God of
758 9,3    |               on God whom he calls the God of all comfort who raises
759 9,3    |              writes: “But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads
760 9,3    |          transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted
761 9,3    |                to the great triumph of God in the world. Delight in
762 10,1   |           human existence is life with God. Jesus said: “What does
763 10,1   |              one grow in the life with God?” The elder raised his hand
764 10,1   |          self-disclosure of the living God, His self-giving to us in
765 10,1   |            Holy Trinity dwelling among God’s people who are His holy
766 10,1   |                are His holy temple. As God has promised, “I will live
767 10,1   |              them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people” (
768 10,1   |               blessings that flow from God, His love, mercy, truth,
769 10,1   |           Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the communion
770 10,1   |             good for me to cling to my God and to place in Him the
771 10,1   |             comes not from us but from God. God is the One who shines
772 10,1   |              not from us but from God. God is the One who shines within
773 10,1   |           shining with the radiance of God.~ ~
774 10,2   |               transforming presence of God. If it were so — and how
775 10,2   |                significant interest in God, the Church, or Christianity.
776 10,2   |              and even hostility toward God, while worshiping other
777 10,2   |            ears, fought like a lion of God against unacceptable ecclesiastical
778 10,2   |              words being: “Glory be to God for all things!”~ ~
779 10,3   |               of the life and truth of God. Orthodoxy knows hierarchy
780 10,3   |              dominance of clergy as if God’s presence and truth is
781 10,3   |              listening to the voice of God’s people, being responsive
782 10,3   |          connected it with the life of God as Holy Trinity. Just as
783 10,3   |                 Just as in the life of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
784 10,3   |                fullness of truth about God, life, creation, heaven
785 10,3   |                element of the image of God in human beings. Christ
786 10,4   |        creation in Christ in terms of “God’s love poured into our hearts
787 10,4   |           believers “by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
788 10,4   |                 holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
789 10,4   |               know what is the will of God” (Rom. 12:1-2). “The renewal
790 10,4   |            priests and bishops who, by God’s grace, are called to be
791 10,4   |              about theosis (union with God, divinization), but we have
792 10,4   |                the gift of grace which God alone kindles. All three
793 10,4   |              of the Holy Spirit, which God alone can give, burns brightly
794 10,5   |            assured promise and gift of God which entails specific knowledge
795 10,5   |            clear spiritual principles. God is always the source of
796 10,5   |              the joyful respondents to God’s renewing grace, the active
797 10,5   |      recipients of His gracious gifts. God, like the golden sun, always
798 10,5   |                open our inner world to God’s sunshine, to allow His
799 10,5   |         radiate with the brightness of God’s grace.~ The abiding center
800 10,5   |              the supreme revelation of God, as well as to His presence
801 10,5   |             belief in the existence of God to a deep but unexamined
802 10,5   |              faith is a active gift of God, the workings of holy fire
803 10,5   |             living faith by turning to God with one’s whole heart. “
804 10,5   |               with one’s whole heart. “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8). The
805 10,5   |               of our faith response to God is but “to love the Lord
806 10,5   |             but “to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
807 10,5   |            faith, feeble as it may be, God’s grace lifts it up, cleanses
808 10,5   |                 always by the grace of God, we ourselves become love
809 10,5   |          receptivity to the mystery of God, a forward movement of spiritual
810 10,5   |        decisive and abiding turning to God evidenced by a way of life
811 10,5   |             Christ — and nothing else. God’s word through the Prophet
812 10,5   |          fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and
813 10,5   |               unceasing receptivity of God and essential orientation
814 10,5   |                energizes faith and, by God’s grace, transforms formal
815 10,5   |              experiential knowledge of God’s love. It brings us closer
816 10,5   |            brings us to the banquet of God’s kingdom where our loving
817 10,5   |              of wise and joyful use of God’s gifts, not of demeaning
818 10,5   |              well of the heart and, by God’s grace, releases the energies
819 10,5   |              the image and likeness of God. The more perfect our obedience,
820 10,5   |           journey, a pilgrimage toward God. It has many difficulties,
821 10,5   |              possess the holy flame of God’s grace through baptism.
822 11,2   |           faithfulness) is sin” before God and before humanity.~What
823 11,2   |              in~indescribable anguish. God, who sees my tears, should
824 11,2   |                happily if you can. May God preserve you from evil.
825 11,3   |        anchored on the faithfulness of God in His covenants and promises,
826 11,3   |               those who believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
827 11,3   |               for those who believe in God as the Father of Jesus Christ,
828 11,3   |             faithfulness is the living God, the One who was, who is,
829 11,3   |           trinitarian understanding of God, both Jews and Christians
830 11,3   |              by their faith in the one God, historically revealed according
831 11,3   |           Creator, Lord, and Father, a God of glory and majesty, love
832 11,3   |               called into existence by God's self-disclosure, now painfully
833 11,3   |               teach us that the living God revealed Himself in order
834 11,3   |                a light to the nations. God and people, Messiah and
835 11,3   |              go together. Knowledge of God and of Christ are integrally
836 11,3   |         preserve and communicate to us God and His ways. Whatever the
837 11,3   |            experience and knowledge of God.~ The third goal or area
838 11,3   |           faithfulness is comprised of God's gifts, covenants, great
839 11,3   |            recognize them precisely as God's gifts and to regard them
840 11,3   |                Should we fail to honor God's gifts by viewing them
841 11,3   |               one another, we dishonor God Himself and diminish the
842 11,3   |            relationships worthy of the God of mercy and justice whom
843 11,3   |        Christian Orthodox faith, seeks God's love, truth, justice,
844 11,4   |       effective use and application of God's gifts in the present and
845 11,4   |          humanity and for the glory of God. In the ongoing process
846 11,4   |          faithfulness is to the living God, the sovereign Lord Himself,
847 11,4   |       commandment is: “The Lord is our God, the Lord alone, and you
848 11,4   |               shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
849 11,4   |                obedience to the living God.~ Continuity and renewal
850 11,4   |              place of the transcendent God, and in the place of the
851 11,4   |             and thus made our religion God instead of God our religion.
852 11,4   |                religion God instead of God our religion. If I walk
853 11,4   |              humbly before the Lord my God, and truly love Him as the
854 11,4   |            humble and fervent faith in God and without discerning the
855 11,4   |             through Christianity, “the God of Israel triumphed over
856 11,4   |               upon Christians, perhaps God would not have it any other
857 11,4   |        understanding of the mystery of God, be valid sources of mutual
858 11,4   |               faithfulness to the Lord God and His inscrutable mystery
859 11,4   |               toward the fulfilment of God's purposes in the world.~
860 11,4   |             repentance before the Lord God? Christians above all on
861 11,4   |      faithfulness is truly to the Lord God, our Father in heaven, we
862 11,4   |                in the Name of the Lord God could be maintained even
863 11,4   |        mysterious workings of the Lord God in history. Similarly, appropriate
864 11,4   |                in the Name of the Lord God if a reflective Christian
865 11,4   |             even to say, “your view of God can be enriched through
866 11,4   |        mysterious workings of the Lord God in history. Then they could
867 11,4   |               faithfulness to the Lord God, and see what we can learn
868 11,4   |                and love for the living God, there is none such true
869 11,4   |             the throne of the almighty God and presume to judge others,
870 11,4   |          injustice, all in the Name of God. A scandalous result is
871 11,4   |              self-righteously blind to God's love and truth, “even
872 11,4   |               fact of which shows that God has neither rejected nor
873 11,4   |              still the elect people of God, and that Christian Gentiles
874 11,4   |         account of the faithfulness of God Himself, Saint Paul could
875 11,4   |              of history by the hand of God Himself (Rom. 11:15,28-36).
876 11,4   |                but not as “beloved” of God (Rom. 11:28). Christians
877 11,4   |             unfaithfulness to the Lord God by denigrating and persecuting
878 11,4   |                of the Jewish people as God's people, as well as the
879 11,4   |            ways in His eyes. Moreover, God has given both of His peoples,
880 11,4   |             are servant communities of God, not self-righteous critics
881 11,4   |            entrusted with a mission by God which as yet we are far
882 11,4   |                our “roots” in terms of God's gifts to us from Abraham
883 11,4   |         regarded with honor and awe as God's gifts. We disagree in
884 11,4   |              as servant communities of God. It is here that we must
885 11,4   |      faithfulness that only belongs to God. We must not also identify
886 11,4   |          Only-begotten Son and Word of God, although immortal, You
887 11,4   |              becoming man. Christ, our God, You were crucified but
888 11,4   |                 too, will be judged by God (1 Cor 6:9-10; Gal 5:21;
889 11,4   |            Christ and it is a “gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). Faith in Christ
890 11,4   |              Roberta C. Bondi, To Love God as God Loves (Philadelphia:
891 11,4   |               C. Bondi, To Love God as God Loves (Philadelphia: Fortress
892 11,4   |                Theodoropoulos, Love of God and Love of Neighbor in
893 11,4   |           Culture Shift: Communicating God’s Truth to Our Changing
894 11,4   |        Coniaris, Preaching the Word of God (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox
895 11,4   |              still the elect people of God, according to Saint Paul.
896 11,4   |              to Saint Paul. Insofar as God continues to have plans
897 11,4   |             and certainly according to God whose faithfulness to the