I have often been asked why I thought God created us like we are. We come into the world without any real understanding of the meaning of life and have to struggle a lifetime to come to a real understanding. … Continue reading
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The Eastern Church looks at human nature differently than does the Western Church. Eastern theology asserts that God created human beings innocent and good, but not complete. So life calls human beings to grow in God-likeness. The Eastern Church makes … Continue reading
In the canonical New Testament (NT), Philemon is the last of the 13 letters attributed to Paul. This is because it is the shortest, only 25 verses long, so brief it is not even divided into chapters. But in a … Continue reading
History tells us that in several of his sermons Chrysostom reproached his congregation for their lack of attention during the readings. People, it seems complained that there was no point in listening, the reading were always the same. He reminded … Continue reading
With Your divine protection, O Lord,as You once raised the paralytic, now lift up my soul paralyzed with all kinds of sin and evil deeds of wickedness, so that, as saved, I may cry out to You:” Glory be to … Continue reading
It is the glory of Byzantine Christianity to have established and elucidated, as much as the human mind can, the characteristic truths of Christianity. Those truths include: (1) the oneness of God in his divine Trinity; (2) the Incarnation; (3) … Continue reading
In the last issue of this article I began to present Theophan’s ideas on the characteristics of a sinner. Theophan believed that a sinner is a person who has turned away from God and has become self-centered, making himself the … Continue reading
The unity that exists within the Trinity, which we believe is composed of Three Distinct Divine Persons, is truly beyond human comprehension. The dialectic or debate about the one and the many in the Christian Godhead has been an enduring … Continue reading
In the last issue of this article, I began to share with you the structure of the churches in the time of Chrysostom. The ambon stood roughly in the middle of the church’s nave (i.e., that central part of the … Continue reading
As indicated in the last issue of this article, Paul addresses the issue of the resurrected body of Christ, indicating that it was a spiritual body. What Paul means by a spiritual body is not completely clear. It appears, however, … Continue reading