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To: sionnsar

"...you are quite literally evil and you seriously need to acquaint yourself with the Christian religion. Before it's too late."

The heresiarch Griswold is indeed an evil, evil man. Evil is not of God, but of the Devil. Do Episcopalians see what this man is doing? The great Father of The Church, +John Chrysostomos, knew what Griswoldian followers of the Evil One were up to. They existed even in his day and his warnings about them are as valid and true today as they were more than 1700 years ago:


"The whole essence and effort of the devil is to separate and remove our attention from God and entice it toward worldly concerns and pleasures. He works interiorly, in the heart, suggesting good works and resolutions and reasonable, or rather unreasonable, thoughts. We must not pay the slightest attention to these things. The spiritual combat consists in keeping the mind fixed on God, in not entertaining or approving impure thoughts, and in not paying any attention to the phantasms which the detestable, diabolic picture maker stirs up in our imagination."


2 posted on 10/26/2005 5:58:30 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
"The whole essence and effort of the devil is to separate and remove our attention from God and entice it toward worldly concerns and pleasures. He works interiorly, in the heart, suggesting good works and resolutions and ["]reasonable["], or rather unreasonable, thoughts. We must not pay the slightest attention to these things. The spiritual combat consists in keeping the mind fixed on God, in not entertaining or approving impure thoughts, and in not paying any attention to the phantasms which the detestable, diabolic picture maker stirs up in our imagination."

St. John of the Golden Mouth indeed!

4 posted on 10/26/2005 6:11:17 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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To: Kolokotronis
***The whole essence and effort of the devil is to separate and remove our attention from God...***



Kolokotronis.... this guy is so good, it kills me!

What wisdom God gave him.

Somebody seriously needs to take some of his writings and convert them to audio and get them out to the Christian folks.

God's people could need this type of education.
6 posted on 10/26/2005 6:54:01 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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