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The master deciver made sure there were plent of alternative "Gospels" to go around, and ever since then has been popping up heresies and protests, reforms, what not, even among the brothers.

I would be more concerned about your brothers who run around praying to apparitions of a dead human than those who bury their nose in Scripture and discuss proper understanding.

"I would be more concerned about your brothers who run around praying to apparitions of a dead human than those who bury their nose in Scripture and discuss proper understanding."

Can't say as I have ever prayed to an "apparition" of a "dead" human. I can say this; the saints are not dead. They are more alive than we are and I have been with them, or rather they have been with me, in a manner so real that I could "feel" them next to me and "hear" them speak to me on a number of occasions and not always in those "foxholes" of life we all find ourselves now and again. In fact, it has mostly happened during the Divine Liturgy. I have also, WF, experienced demons, usually the little "logosmoi" I suspect even you have encountered and several times, some real big howling ones. They are real too, WF, in my personal experience, frankly, more "real" than you are to me since you're just words on a screen. I can't feel your presence here and I can't "hear" what you are saying. Of course, I know, intellectually, that you are real, but I'll tell you, with the saints, and those demons, its more than an intellectual understanding or acceptance. Its also very sensory, all in all, a perception of the nous, I suppose. I wouldn't be surprised if you think I'm delusional, but I assure you I am quite earnest in what I have said.