To: kosta50; Kolokotronis; stripes1776
"The Creed, after all, does not say we shall live forever, but only that we look forward to the Age to come."
While it isn't spelled out in the Creed, St. Paul does say in I Thes that "we shall be with the Lord forever" after the resurrection.
A book worth reading is "Free Choice in St. Maximus the Confessor" -- it is a treatment of free choice in the next life, as touched on by St. Maximus in his various writings. Bottom line as I recall it is that we will indeed have free choice, being faced with a multiplicity (perhaps an infinity) of choices -- but in that next life, *all* of the choices before us will be good.
To: Agrarian; Kolokotronis; stripes1776
Free Choice in St. Maximus the Confessor" -- it is a treatment of free choice in the next life...we will indeed have free choice, being faced with a multiplicity (perhaps an infinity) of choices -- but in that next life, *all* of the choices before us will be good Fascinating. I will have to look for that book.
8,372 posted on
06/10/2006 10:07:38 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: Agrarian; Kolokotronis; stripes1776
While it isn't spelled out in the Creed, St. Paul does say in I Thes that "we shall be with the Lord forever" after the resurrection I don't mean to sound cynical, but that can be taken many ways.
8,379 posted on
06/11/2006 5:27:29 AM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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