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Tag Archives: Holy Scriptures
An Orthodox Mind?
I was reading (or actually re-reading, since I’ve written a past series based on it) an article this morning that prompted a variety of thoughts. As a result, I believe this post will be a more meandering one than I usually write as I wander down different corridors in my mind. The article is Beyond [...]
Posted in Faith Also tagged atonement, communion, communion with god, ecumenical councils, image of god, incarnation, orthodoxy, protestants, religion, resurrection, st. maximos, theosis, union with god, zwingli 1 Comment
Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 11 – Assurance of Salvation or What Sort of God Do You Worship?
In the Christian circles in which I move, a question of “assurance” often surfaces. That was never a question that troubled me, so it took me a while to discern why it seemed to be an issue for so many. I finally realized that, like so many other questions, it was a matter of how [...]
Posted in Hell Also tagged assurance of salvation, christians, delusion, evil, god of love, heaven, hell, jesus of nazareth, life, mankind, perception of reality, resurrection, sin Leave a comment
Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 8 – The Concentration Camp and Separation from God
There are two common interpretations of hell today that I think are particular troublesome. Both are variations of “the basement” in the two-story house metaphor I discussed in an earlier post. Both tend to be linked to descriptions of heaven and hell as “actual places” that are in some sense distinct and separate from our [...]
Posted in Hell Also tagged evil, God, heaven, hell, image of god, isaiah, jesus of nazareth, life, love, reality, scripture, suffering, worship 3 Comments
Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 7 – Gehenna
The third and last word translated “hell” in the NT is Gehenna. It’s also the trickiest one to interpret. We see it used most often in prophetic (and often apocalyptic) pronouncements by Jesus. (I think we can also assume the “lake of fire” in St. John’s Apocalypse is intended to be understood in similar ways.) [...]
Four Hundred Texts on Love (Second Century) 11
31. The passions lying hidden in the soul provide the demons with the means of arousing impassioned droughts in us. Then, fighting the intellect through these thoughts, they force it to give its assent to sin. When it has been overcome, they lead it to sin in the mind; and when this has been done [...]
Posted in St. Maximos the Confessor Also tagged church, demons, love, lust, passions, st. maximos 1 Comment
Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 5 – Hades
Anyone familiar with Greek Mythology will instantly recognize Hades as both the name of the Greek god of the underworld or the depths and the name of the abode of the dead over which he ruled. As such, it was the natural word for the Septuagint translators to choose for Sheol when the Jewish Scriptures [...]
Posted in Hell Also tagged abode of the dead, hades, heaven, hell, jewish scriptures, new testament, pagan, reality, septuagint, sheol 1 Comment
What is the source of our oneness?
Once again, I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, or reactions my words spur in anyone who happens to read this. Incorporating and responding to the thoughts of others is one of the ways I process thoughts, and the thoughts in this post are certainly less than complete. I’ll start with the paragraph from 1 Corinthians [...]
Posted in Eucharist, Faith Also tagged body, body and blood, bread and wine, christianity, christians, communion, corinthians, dualism, hinduism, holy spirit, life, lord jesus christ, love, marriage, oneness, pluralism, pray, reality, scripture, secular, spirit, spiritual, zwingli 5 Comments
Original Sin 18 – Seminal Reasons
I want to begin this post in the series with a disclaimer. I have had a deep love for the history of ancient and classical Greece, its gods, its plays, and its literature for most of my life. By the time I finished fourth grade, I remember having read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Bulfinch’s Mythology, the [...]
Posted in Original Sin Also tagged apostles, Augustine, edith hamilton, epicureans, guilt, holy scripture, love, Original Sin, philosophy, plato, sin Leave a comment
Original Sin 7 – God & Man in the Creation Narratives
This post is not going to be one that covers the few prooftexts in Scripture that generally tend to be the focus in discussions on the topic of original sin. I wanted to make sure at the outset that nobody reading this post did so with the wrong expectations. I will look at those specific [...]
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The Jesus Creed 9 – Mary: The Story of Vocation