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To: Agrarian; jo kus; Kolokotronis
If there is one thing that Orthodoxy does *not* believe, it is that God is simple

Agrarian, I am not sure I understand what you are trying to say, but St. John of Damascus (An Exact Exposition of Orthodox Faith, Book I, numerous references) and other Fathers make it clear that Orthodoxy always taught that God was indeed simple, uncompound, and indivisible.

7,474 posted on 05/31/2006 6:40:19 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Agrarian; jo kus

Your comment struck me as odd also, A. Here is a more modern expression of the same concept as Kosta alludes to from Met. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos:

"About God we can use both affirmative and negative expressions, because by the first His existence is affirmed, and by the second His transcendence is shown in relation to His created works. There is no likeness between uncreated and created, between God and His creatures. The being of God is simple, unknowable and inaccessible to man and altogether impossible to interpret, because it is beyond all affirmation and negation."


7,475 posted on 05/31/2006 6:47:35 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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