Read here “How God Created time,” and also an article against evolution “Adaptation in Creation”
True Theologians
From the island of Cyprus (Acts 13:4,5).
My beloved Christian brothers and sisters,
There are those who live in not so distant places that have a real life person to Person relationship with Lord Jesus!
These humble words that are shared with brotherly love and respect, point out to the kind of relationship man was made to have with our Lord Jesus Christ. The following paragraphs, where taken from the book of Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos Entreaty” (Paraklitika), and it is knowledge that must be shared with all those who have Lord Jesus Christ as their Heavenly Father.
“Those who have made their selves worthy to see God are the True Theologians. Saint Gregorios the Theologian taught that those who saw God like Apostle Paul can safely theologize, because the sight of God cleans them from all fantasy, and renders them true preachers of the truth making them explicitly different from philosophers and philosophies”.
Metropolitan Hierotheos who is member of the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church continues in his book:
“It is with a lot of awe and fear of God that we dare write here that even today there are Saints (that are alive today) who saw and see Christ in the Light, they converse with him, and stay in His Sight for days and even weeks. We have been blessed by God to personally meet such people who saw Christ in His Divine Light, who attest to the fact that Lord Jesus is a True God, the only Savior of man, our only hope for Eternal Life, our only way out of the dead end that we have reached”. (John 17:3) “And eternal life means knowing you, the only true God, and knowing Jesus Christ, whom you send”
Saint Gregorios (3rd century) description of his personal experience who saw Christ in His Divine Light is used as an example to describe how the Saints are able (became worthy), to see God in His Divine Glory.
“UNDER CONDITIONS OF CONTINUED PRAYER AND UPWARD EXTENSION THAT HAVE AS CLIMAX THE UNION WITH GOD, MAN IS POSSESSED ENTIRELY FROM LIGHT OF DIVINE GLORY THAT IS SEND FOURTH ETERNALLY FROM THE TRIAD. AFTER THE MIND IS SEIZED FROM THE DIVINE LIGHT AND ENTERS THE LIGHT IT BECOMES ITS SELF-LIGHT. THUS LIKE LIGHT, IT SEES LIGHT”
A notion, which Saint Symeon goes to great lengths to clarify in his writings, is that of the Divine Light as personal. It is not simply a sensible radiance—an inanimate luminosity such as one might receive from a lamp, or from the sun. Rather the Divine Light is the very ‘person’ of the Divinity Himself: it is not simply a product of God, it is God. ‘Your light, O my God, is You,’ he writes, and to this point of emphasis he often returns.
The attentiveness that we need to have here is of God Himself. The object and the purpose of our Christian Life is none other than God Himself. The purpose of life is becoming in His Image (Be Holy because I am Holy).
Orthodoxy teaches that it has an unbroken Holy Tradition of spiritual knowledge that was delivered by the Apostles, a way of life (in and out the Church) that leads to a mystical union with God. This mystical union is also known as Sainthood, Supernatural condition, or being a god by the Grace of God. They also teach that it is not possible for this union to become an object of any kind of an academic study that can “discover” or “deepen” in the knowledge, because Christianity is all about Divine Grace.
The people of the Nations belonging to Orthodox Christianity will never claim that they have discovered Christianity or the road to Salvation. However they will tell you that their prime directive and responsibility has always been to keep everything that was passed down from Jesus and the Apostles u n c h a n g e d for these methods and teachings that were put forward for the Salvation of all man constitute or sum up the Divine Will of God.
Interesting relating Internet addresses:
ORTHODOX-PSYCHOTHERAPY
Lord Jesus did not come to teach philosophically, he came to teach THERAPEUTICALLY.
In Acts 13:4,5 we read that Paul came here to Cyprus and taught along with John Mark in the synagogues. Resurrected Lazarus was a Cyprus Bishop for 30 years and it was known that HE NEVER SMILED. Read here why Cyprus is called the Island of the Saints.
An awesome miracle that takes place Orthodox Saturday Easter each year for the past couple hundred years at the spot Lord Jesus was born, in the Temple of Nativity in Jerusalem.
Information on Orthodox Monarchism on this page of this Orthodox Monastery in Arizona.
The religion experience is cultivated systematically
in Orthodox Monasteries, providing a live attestation of the reality of God.
Please allow me to be your servant. Commends welcomed
I belong to no organization and no one pays me. Please pray for me also. God bless us all.
Constantinos