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To: Petrosius

My dear fellow, the councils of the church, whether regional or ecumenical(universal or worldwide), do not meet to decide what doctrine is to be or not to be. The councils meet to affirm the Tradition in the face of heresy. No church council will ever affirm the filioque heresy as being Orthodox and then be accepted as authoritative by Orthodox Christians. Ever. Nestorians tried that trick when they took control of the "Robber" Council of Ephesus. To this day, nobody accepts its authority except the Nestorians (Assyrian Church of the East).
The filioque question was decided once and for all time at the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 380. The fathers there decided that the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son, period.
Give it up bubb, it's over. It was over centuries before you were even born. There is nothing left to discuss. Repent!


143 posted on 07/03/2005 3:42:00 PM PDT by Graves ("Orthodoxy or death!")
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To: Graves
The filioque question was decided once and for all time at the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 380. The fathers there decided that the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son, period.

Really? When did they say that?

How can that be reconciled with the 9th Anathema of St. Cyril at Ephesus, which says: "If anyone ... does not say rather that the Spirit through which [the One Lord Jesus Christ] worked the miracles was His Own, let him be anathema."

How is the Holy Spirit, prceeding from the Father alone as seem wont to say, Christ's own Spirit?

280 posted on 07/17/2005 10:11:35 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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