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To: Kolokotronis

Amen.


50 posted on 05/30/2005 4:06:05 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas

Try reading the Fathers, my friend.

"Let us contemplate with faith the mystery of the divine incarnation and in all simplicity let us simply praise Him who in His great generosity became man for us. For who, relying on the power of rational demonstration, can explain how the conception of the divine Logos took place? How was flesh generated without seed? How was there an engendering without loss of maidenhood? How did a mother after giving birth remain a virgin? How did He who was supremely perfect develop as He grew up [cf. Luke 2:52]? How was He who was pure baptized? How did He who was hungry give sustenance [cf. Matt. 4:2; 14:14-21]? How did He who was weary impart strength [cf. John 4:6]? How did He who suffered dispense healing? How did He who was dying bestow life? And, to put the most important last, how did God become man?...Faith alone can embrace these mysteries, for it is faith that makes real for us things beyond intellect and reason [cf. Heb. 11:1]." St. Maximos the Confessor (580-662 AD)


55 posted on 05/30/2005 4:36:32 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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