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To: P-Marlowe
Then the EOC does not know [a Protestant] God

Yup

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5,749 posted on 09/08/2007 12:10:44 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Then the EOC does not know [a Protestant] God

From www.eastern-orthodoxy.com:

If you, dear reader, participate in such discussions and propagate controversies do not expect the blessing of God in your life. As we noticed that some of these also slander monastic communities in the USA, the wrath of God will come upon them. Christ does not treat lightly those who condemn His monastics. Even if some monastic said a wrong word or did something not right, it is for his spiritual father and the Church to examine these issues and not for the internet, where exploitation can happen so easily.

If Christ allowed the Revolution in Russia to happen the very day the take-over of the Holy Mountain was being prepared, what do you think He will do to those who slander the good standing of the Holy Garden of Panagia?

There are countless of stories of the wrath of God against those who slandered Athos and the other blessed monastic communities. And, if one problem does present itself, fervent prayer will always bring the blessed fruits we seek so long as we have love and faith.

Maybe kosta does not know the EOC God.

5,751 posted on 09/08/2007 12:33:29 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: kosta50
THE ACT OF THE TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF GREECE (1949)

In 1949, the Synod of Metropolitan Matthew of Athens, Archbishop of the True Orthodox Church of Greece, assembled at Keratea in Attica and declared the following condemnation of Freemasonry. [From The Rudder, Orthodox Christian Education Society, Chicago 1983, p. 550]:

Declaration Against Freemasonry - By the True Orthodox Church of Greece

Wherefore clad in the sacred vestments of epitrachilion and omophorion, we say, If any man preach unto you any other gospel than that which we have preached unto you, even though an angel from heaven, let him be anathema (Galatians I8:9). As many as are befitting, that pursue after such a diabolical and lawless employment of Freemasonry, and all they that follow unto their infatuation and unto their error, let them be excommuicated and accursed by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. After death, they shall be unpardoned, indissoluble, and bloated. Groaning and trembling, as Cain, shall they be upon the earth (Genesis 4:14). The earth shall cleave and swallow them up, as Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 16:31-32). The wrath of God shall be upon their heads, and their portion together with Judas the betrayer. An angel of the Lord will prosecute them with a flaming sword and, unto their life;s termination, they will not know of progress. Let their works and toil be unblessed and let them become a cloud of dust, as of a summer threshing-floor. And all they indeed that shall abide still unto their wickedness will have such a recompense. But as many as shall go out from the midst of them and shall be separated, and having spat out their abominable heresy, and shall go afar off from their accursed infatuation, such kind shall receive the wagers of the zealot Phineas; rather let them be blesed and forgiven by the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Only unconfused and undivided Trinity, the One God in nature, and by us His servants."

X Archbishop Matthew of Athens and all Greece (President of the Holy Synod)
X Metropolitan Spyridon II of Trimythus
X Metropolitan Andrew of Patras
X Metropolitan Demetrius of Thessalonica
X Metropolitan Callistus of Corinth
X Archpriest Eugene Tombros (Secretary of the Holy Synod).

Maybe kosta is not familiar with the Greek Orthodox God either?

5,752 posted on 09/08/2007 12:38:47 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: kosta50
From www.eastern-orthodixy.com

Heresy and the Wrath of God

The sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, lit their censers, laid incense on them and censed the tent of meeting. But they didn't perform the ritual properly; they offered "strange fire" to the Lord, i.e. other than what the Lord expected from them. And the Lord not only rejected their offering but consumed them with fire (Levit. 10:1). Yet the sons of Aaron thought they were doing something pleasing to God. They thought...

Now if the Lord is so wrathful over a matter such as that, how much more so will He be when the contravention of His ordinances has to do with questions of vital importance, such as the faith.

Both Arius and Nestor suffered frightful deaths. In both cases, their bowels burst.

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Oh my, God killed them!

I do believe, dosta, that you are misrepresenting the orthodox position on the idea of a wrathful God.

5,753 posted on 09/08/2007 12:46:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: kosta50
Fron the Catechism of the EOC:

Q. Was it necessary that the Son of God should become a man?

A. Yes; that He might save man it was necessary that as a man He should give men the right teaching about God and all other heavenly teachings, that He might enlighten the minds of men, and that He might satisfy the divine Justice with the sacrifice of His sinless life and reconcile to their Creator the creatures who were under the wrath of God.

5,754 posted on 09/08/2007 12:53:45 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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