“I never realized how much Arainism and Gnosticism subsided in Protestant beliefs. This was an eye-opener into what heresy really means.”
Quite frankly, I never realized how much the deism of Plato and Heraclitus has influenced Eastern Orthodoxy. The belief that God does not interfere with human life (extreme freewill)and the laws of the universe (natural theology, the rejection/reinterpretation of supernatural events, prophecy, miracles, indwelling/leading of the Holy Spirit) really is “an eye-opener into what heresy really means”.
If man was given complete freewill to choose, and God only creates the good, who created evil? If man was given the capacity to choose evil, then there must have been evil to choose. If you say God in His foresight saw the evil then it must have preceded man, so who created it?
Even to say that God is not bound by time so He sees all things immediately, man still can’t create ab initio, only copy, since he is created.
You are mixing Kosta's opinions with Church teachings. I am not surprized because from a Protestant point of view anyone's opoinion is "official."
[If] God creates the good, who created evil? That's not Christianity, and never was, but then again we already know that. I am only making a point for lurkers.
That's not Christianity, and never was, but then again we already know that. I am only making a point for lurkers.