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http://www.orthodoxpress.org/parish/river_of_fire.htm'River of fire' is one of the popular and controversial books in Orthodox Church. What is/are you comment(s) on this book? Why not every Orthodox Christians agree with what 'River of Fire' says ? What's wrong with the content of this book?
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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2012, 10:17:20 AM » |
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Better yet...what is YOUR opinion?
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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2012, 04:20:47 PM » |
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I find out that there is a lot of arguments about everything in internet.
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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2012, 04:33:13 PM » |
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Good Johnny Cash song...
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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2012, 01:00:51 PM » |
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And what is your opinion? |
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« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2012, 01:03:07 PM » |
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It's not traditional at all but it's very Orthodox. And with that said, I sincerely hope, I've managed to offend both sides of the issue.
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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2012, 01:10:23 PM » |
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And what is your opinion? Personally, I like the teachings in river of Fire. However, I am considering to covert to Orthodoxy.I am still not an Orthodox Christian at this moment. And I don 't know whether the teachings in 'River of Fire' align with Orthodox faith and doctrine or not. Some Orthodox Christians really challenge that the teachings in 'River of Fire' do not align with Orthodoxy. |
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2012, 02:39:17 PM » |
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It's not traditional at all but it's very Orthodox. And with that said, I sincerely hope, I've managed to offend both sides of the issue.
You mean the teachings in River of Fire are very Orthodoxy ? |
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« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2012, 05:46:54 PM » |
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Having read both thoroughly, and coming from a Protestant background long before I found Orthodoxy, it seems it is easy to formulate many opinions about the subject and authors involved.
Here's my two cents...
1. V. Moss calls Kalomiros a heretic in his writing, yet never speaking about which part Kalomiros is being heretical. On top of this, he is totally ok with "original sin" and uses it as if it is synonymous with "ancestral sin". V.Moss needs to stop reading Western post schism theologians.
2. Kalomiros has a narrow view of justice but his point about God being a consuming fire and therefore the suffering in the afterlife helped me to stop looking at God as a giant bearded Michaelangelo in the sky that wants to squish me with his judging sandals and begin to look at God as a merciful Father.
3. Both of them should go study G. Florovsky and V. Lossky. Maybe pray a bit more (can't we all use that?) I'm sure they've both missed something.
A) Love for fellow man.
B) Love for God above all else.
Also, one should always beware of someone who thinks he is a theologian or calls himself an orthodox Christian writer.
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« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2012, 11:34:29 PM » |
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"original sin" and uses it as if it is synonymous with "ancestral sin". V.Moss needs to stop reading Western post schism theologians. I always say "original sin" myself. I'm pretty sure the distinction is contrived and, from what I've heard, seems to come out of anti-Western polemics. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2012, 12:11:48 AM » |
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Having read both thoroughly, and coming from a Protestant background long before I found Orthodoxy, it seems it is easy to formulate many opinions about the subject and authors involved.
Here's my two cents...
1. V. Moss calls Kalomiros a heretic in his writing, yet never speaking about which part Kalomiros is being heretical. On top of this, he is totally ok with "original sin" and uses it as if it is synonymous with "ancestral sin". V.Moss needs to stop reading Western post schism theologians.
2. Kalomiros has a narrow view of justice but his point about God being a consuming fire and therefore the suffering in the afterlife helped me to stop looking at God as a giant bearded Michaelangelo in the sky that wants to squish me with his judging sandals and begin to look at God as a merciful Father.
3. Both of them should go study G. Florovsky and V. Lossky. Maybe pray a bit more (can't we all use that?) I'm sure they've both missed something.
A) Love for fellow man.
B) Love for God above all else.
Also, one should always beware of someone who thinks he is a theologian or calls himself an orthodox Christian writer.
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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2012, 03:32:22 PM » |
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"original sin" and uses it as if it is synonymous with "ancestral sin". V.Moss needs to stop reading Western post schism theologians. I always say "original sin" myself. I'm pretty sure the distinction is contrived and, from what I've heard, seems to come out of anti-Western polemics. There is something to be said for addressing polemical issues, otherwise we wouldn't have had ecumenical councils. That said, study it, ask a priest, study it, pray about it...study some more. There is a huge difference between original sin and ancestral sin. Are you to be held responsible for Adam's fall, or for your own? It's that simple. |
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« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2012, 04:03:36 PM » |
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I always say "original sin" myself. I'm pretty sure the distinction is contrived and, from what I've heard, seems to come out of anti-Western polemics. There is something to be said for addressing polemical issues, otherwise we wouldn't have had ecumenical councils. That said, study it, ask a priest, study it, pray about it...study some more. There is a huge difference between original sin and ancestral sin. Are you to be held responsible for Adam's fall, or for your own? It's that simple. While some Protestants do teach this, Rome explicitly teaches against that in the CCC. The biggest difference between east and west that I've seen is primarily more in expression as a corruption of nature subject to death and corruption (east) and deprivation of sanctifying grace (west). |
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« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2012, 04:24:25 PM » |
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I always say "original sin" myself. I'm pretty sure the distinction is contrived and, from what I've heard, seems to come out of anti-Western polemics. There is something to be said for addressing polemical issues, otherwise we wouldn't have had ecumenical councils. That said, study it, ask a priest, study it, pray about it...study some more. There is a huge difference between original sin and ancestral sin. Are you to be held responsible for Adam's fall, or for your own? It's that simple. While some Protestants do teach this, Rome explicitly teaches against that in the CCC. The biggest difference between east and west that I've seen is primarily more in expression as a corruption of nature subject to death and corruption (east) and deprivation of sanctifying grace (west). +1 |
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« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2012, 07:49:08 PM » |
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"original sin" and uses it as if it is synonymous with "ancestral sin". V.Moss needs to stop reading Western post schism theologians. I always say "original sin" myself. I'm pretty sure the distinction is contrived and, from what I've heard, seems to come out of anti-Western polemics. There is something to be said for addressing polemical issues, otherwise we wouldn't have had ecumenical councils. That said, study it, ask a priest, study it, pray about it...study some more. There is a huge difference between original sin and ancestral sin. Are you to be held responsible for Adam's fall, or for your own? It's that simple. That's not what I meant. Calling it "ancestral" instead of "original" is what I meant. The name only, not the theology, is what I'm referring to. |
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« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2012, 08:08:45 PM » |
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I always say "original sin" myself. I'm pretty sure the distinction is contrived and, from what I've heard, seems to come out of anti-Western polemics. There is something to be said for addressing polemical issues, otherwise we wouldn't have had ecumenical councils. That said, study it, ask a priest, study it, pray about it...study some more. There is a huge difference between original sin and ancestral sin. Are you to be held responsible for Adam's fall, or for your own? It's that simple. While some Protestants do teach this, Rome explicitly teaches against that in the CCC. The biggest difference between east and west that I've seen is primarily more in expression as a corruption of nature subject to death and corruption (east) and deprivation of sanctifying grace (west). I think the debate over this is somewhat unfair. Important officials in the RCC may think about and write about it, because they have to, but I bet the average RCC in his or her daily work doesn't. What's so bad about being against corruption and death? Well, shouldn't we be? This idea that the Orthodox and RCC ideas of what sin is and how to avoid it, are so vastly different that you'd have to charter a plane to get to the other side, seems a little cruel to me. We used to, as I remember, just worry about not sinning. You know, a lot like you.  |
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« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2013, 12:47:36 PM » |
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"Paradise and hell are one and the same River of God, a loving fire which embraces and covers all with the same beneficial will, without any difference or discrimination. The same vivifying water is life eternal for the faithful and death eternal for the infidels; for the first it is their element of life, for the second it is the instrument of their eternal suffocation; paradise for the one is hell for the other."
"I say," writes Saint Isaac the Syrian, "that those who are suffering in hell, are suffering in being scourged by love...."
Will those in hell, be able to eternally resist that scourge of love?
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