Very little is clear to me regarding Orthodox belief. It tends to be all conjecture, considerable mysticism and a lot of "maybe."
"Very little is clear to me regarding Orthodox belief. It tends to be all conjecture, considerable mysticism and a lot of "maybe."
Well, we don't pretend to understand God, Dr.E., but we understand our Faith and accept what we don't know; even uneducated peasants, millions upon millions of them understand and accept that. Somehow we've muddled along for 2000 years or so, about 4 times as long as Protestantism has been around, in far greater numbers and in many areas under centuries and centuries and centuries of oppression.
And there's no reason why it should be clear. Obfuscated and subjective truth appears to be the (somewhat) intentional standard, at least within Orthodoxy. As Kolokotronis himself agreed on another thread earlier today, "Orthodoxy can't be fully explained, it has to be experienced."