Brother(s), thanks for this timely upload! I’m hitting the road in a couple weeks from CA to St Tikhon’s to begin their new iconography apprenticeship program. As I am hoping to visiting monasteries along the way, your upload of the atlas is a Godsend! Thank you & best wishes, +++ Paul
Palamas taught that God can have a beginning, which is heresy and blasphemy: Gregory Palamas, Third Triad, 2nd Discourse, # 8: “… we for our part know that while all the energies of God are uncreated, not all are without beginning.” He teaches that some parts of God are uncreated and that some can have a beginning, which obviously is heretical nonsense that none of the early church fathers ever believed. "Orthodoxy" is false, Catholicism is true. To be saved, one must be a traditional Catholic. Eastern "Orthodoxy" Exposed: Their Heretical Doctrine Of God ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d07mgLoOW8g.html
You obviously don't have any understanding of the above quote. God as creator happened at a specific point in time; God did not create eternally. The energy of God as creator although being uncreated did have a beginning in time because the act of creation started in time. If you had quoted or read the sentences after this, St. Gregory explained what he meant. You don't understand what he says because you believe in Absolute Divine Simplicity, borrowed from philosophers.
@@NepticFathers You don't know what you're talking about. Palamas teaches that the "divine energies" are God, and that they can have a beginning, as the quote cited shows. To deny that would be to lie. No part of God has a beginning. Got it? He also teaches that the "divine energies" (which, according to Palamas are God) are many. That's another blasphemy, as it denies the oneness of God and attempts to divide God into parts. That's shown in the video, among other things. What you attribute to "philosophers" is taught in sacred scripture. You won't save your soul in "Orthodoxy", as adhering to Palamas' heretical, inventive and contradictory nonsense denies basic teachings of Christianity. Also, if you condemn Absolute Divine Simplicity, then you'd have to condemn St. Irenaeus, one of the greatest early church theologians, who taught the same, as even the Eastern "Orthodox" admit.
If I understand your video correctly, are you arguing that scientists can't infer about the past in Earth's history because, after the fall (and the resulting corruption it had), the world has experienced a radical change in its laws and nature, making scientific inferences about it speculative? In other words, would you say that when some scientists infer millions of years (contrary to young-earth creationism), they are presupposing a uniformity and consistency in nature that doesn't actually exist due to their denial of the historical reality of the fall?
You're welcome. I hope the study guide helps. It has helped me really learn the topics of the book better because I can just glance over the guide really quick to jog my memory.
Wow. These look like amazing books! 📚 I can’t say I have any of them. Sadly, those sorts of books aren’t ever read, recommended, or even heard of from the Protestant world. I love reading from multiple streams, clans, and tribes. I’ll have to purchase some of these. 🙏🏽
"The Writings of the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart." I'm reading it right now and it is fantastic. It is a dense read, and I would recommend taking notes. I would read it after the "Art of Prayer."
@@NepticFathers Awesome! Thank you very much. I appreciate it. How long have you been orthodox? I am charismatic and looking a lot into the orthodox faith.
@@ProphetGreg94 If you haven't read any Orthodox books on prayer, I definitely recommend reading different books before the Philokalia selection one I mentioned before. I would recommend "The Spiritual Life and How to be Attuned to it," by St. Theophan the Recluse. Then I would recommend, "A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain," or "The Art of Prayer." I've been Orthodox for 9 years or so now. I assume you've seen some of my other videos addressing such things as speaking in tongues from an Orthodox perspective. I've tried to do videos for those coming from the charismatic movement to understand a little of the differences between Orthodoxy and the Charismatic movement. If you have any other questions just let me know. The Orthodox believe in the charismatic gifts but we definitely stress discernment, self control and humility. We also don't use any sort of mental imagery in prayer because using our imagination can lead to delusion and demonic influences.
@@NepticFathers no, I haven’t ready on prayer. So I’ll look into finding that “art of prayer” book. Thank you. No, I haven’t seen of your videos on that. In fact, this is the first video/short I have seen by you. I had looked up “orthodox prayer book recommendations” here in the search bar. 😊
@@NepticFathers Yeah, I don’t use mental imagery. In fact, the time I spend in prayer in tongues doesn’t involve mental imagination; in fact, I practice the contrary-a fast from the mind. I am glad to hear that orthodox affirm the charismata, because it is definitely present in my life, and one of those things I can’t be talked out of, only because how evident and undeniable my experiences have been.
What a bunch of bullshit. The intent of evolution as a theory isn't an attempt to disprove a god. Understand what seperate claims are, saying evolution is a thing isnt saying god isn't. Also just because evolution goes against what it claims happened in the bible again; isn't making the claim that a God doesn't exist. Evolution is solely what we call to explain the diversity we see in life today that is backed by mountains of evidence. Nature is doing its thing and we just slapped a label on it. There is no intent behind evolution, its a concept formed based off many observations through many fields of study. There is so many problems with this book. Theists need to understand that there is no dogma with evolution, people that know about evolution aren't looking to Darwin's works to be the final arbiter. We follow more recent research that has either verified what we knew or changed things to better fit reality. We have empirical evidence of evolution. We have artificially selected for things to evolve over many generations. Things like dogs, the mustard plant and languages. We have seen single celled organisms evolve into multicellular ones. Evolution happens whether you like it or not, that does shit all to say whether a god exists or not. The reason the writer thinks evolution being a fact makes that claim is because apologists believe in the bible; word for word, whereas im sure most theists think at least some of the stories or more figurative and meant to be a parable. If you take every word of the Bible literally, then you most definitely will have problems. It's riddled with them.
I actually was in a discussion on discord on with another Protestant who leaned OO and I’m leaning EO and he was arguing just like a barlaamite and stating the Light of Tabor was created but not realizing The Uncreated Light in Genesis 1:3 was never created. Told him about this book.
That's interesting. It's a really important distinction. If grace and the glory that we receive is created, then there is an unbridgeable gap between humanity and God. Also it doesn't make sense that the Glory of God would be a lesser created thing than God Himself.
@@NepticFathersactually if the Glory is created no glorification no salvation. ,nothing created can save. Those that say the energies of God are some created forms when they operate ,actually they deny salvation.
@@user-pj7sq7ce1f Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;". If grace is created then there is also the problem you mentioned, where we would be saved by a created intermediator. Orthodox teaching is that grace is uncreated and is God's energy operating in us.
@@NepticFathers correct brother .Also the most important is that heaven and hell in holy orthodoxy is actually God himself. Not that heretic belief that hell supposed is some created fires and flames
@@user-pj7sq7ce1f I don't think we would say that Hell is God himself but the experience of Him or lack of Him in a soul who has rejected Him. I tend to think Hell is the experience of the soul who has blinded themselves to God and that blindness and loneliness creates the Hell. I tend to think of Hell as the endless descent into chaos and nonbeing and getting worse and worse. I really haven't gotten into all the view of Orthodoxy and Hell though and haven't really looked at it in depth.
Very very useful for a beginner as myself . I also recently found chapter 10 very useful from a book I encountered on RU-vid:?”Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain-A Handbook of Spiritual Counsel” If you ever review this book I would be interested as you have a way highlighting the important areas of a book very clearly. Thank you and please keep making these videos
St. John Chrysostom and St. Athanasius are good places to start. I would also recommend the Apostolic Church Fathers as well. Recommendations also depend on a person's background as well. Pseudo Dionysius has a fairly technical vocabulary and a specific way he uses his language and the way he is read by Orthodox will be greatly different from how a Roman Catholic or Western scholar would read and understand his content. I haven't read any of the St. Isaac books that I have yet, although I'll hopefully read them soon.
This is brilliant summary of the book , I will try getting this book . You mentioned you are going to compare this complete translation with an abridged version published by the Nicholas Gendle. Will you be doing a RU-vid video to share your findings Thank you for this channel , it’s very good
If I'm in a noisy apartment or building I put on headphones and listen to some sort of music like ambient music or chant to block out noise. That is part of the reason I make ambient music because I can use it to create background sound that isn't distracting to prayer and I know that my music isn't weird new age music. I have a couple tracks on my channel of my music. Also you can go into a room where you won't be bothered or a closet even if need be or use a hat or something to block out your visual distraction. So if I'm someplace like my work I can put on my headphones if someone is being distracting and pull a hat or hood over my eyes.
Thank you for the awsome video, can you direct me to where to find the ML files for the M50 mkii? every site I ask says is not available yet for it, just for the EOS "M", thx
