Why I Chose St. Paisios As My Patron Saint 

Glory be to God! May St. Paisios intercede for us! 🙏☦️🙏

You actually believe that story lol

@@whysosrs5534 you actually believe Alan Watts?

@@lightoftabor i dont believe in anything. Nor does alan watts. He isn’t a guru. He is a spiritual entertainer. Thats all. He shares what he has learned and i listen. Daoism does not require me to believe in anything. It simply shows me how to live a happy life. It worked. There are no miracles to believe. I have nothing against christianity. But that story of Paisos exploding a rock turned me off more than anything because that is silly. I enjoy learning about other religions though, that is why i am on your video. I didn’t mean to offend. 🙏🏻

​​@@whysosrs5534 I don't believe, I know. I know God is real, I know the kind of miracles He is capable of working through His people. I know because I've experienced them first hand. As anecdotal as that may be, this is why life experience is key. There's a saying that goes "if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything." I think that sums up Alan Watts's philosophy fairly sufficiently. Fun fact: Fr. Seraphim Rose used to actually study under Alan Watts before he discovered the unfruitful nature of his teachings. He went on to describe Watts as an "Armchair Buddhist" as there seemed to be a strong disconnect between the faith he claimed to follow and his actual works. Much like the disconnect between faith and works in protestantism. This was before Seraphim Rose converted to Orthodox Christianity and became a Hieromonk. Buddhism in it's original form is still incompatible with Orthodox Christianity simply due to the fact that it has no God, no Creator at the helm. Not only that but it doesn't acknowledge Jesus Christ as the pre-incarnate Logos. As Christ Himself stated, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

​@@whysosrs5534 you come in here mocking my Patron Saint in a video where I describe why I chose to honor him and then you act as if you never meant to cause offense? This is gaslighting and it's extremely disingenuous. Here's a quote from an Orthodox Saint on Buddhism: "True, Buddha appears with traits that are characteristic of God, but along with others like him there are an infinite multitude of buddhas, and each one has reached this blessed state through his own merits; each person, in turn, is faced with a great number of degrees of incarnation into a buddha. This ladder leading from man to the heights leads to a state of Buddha; but why not also extend it downward? Thus… the entire animal world is also equated with Buddha; moreover, the ladder goes even further downward: there are various of degrees of hell invented, which are inhabited by living beings, and they are also in contact with Buddha… Thus, the image of heavenly, earthly, and nether worlds is a huge laboratory in which the countless races of existence swarm, are born, re-born, and in the final analysis become buddhas." + St. Nicholas of Japan 🙏☦️🙏.

Amen 🙏☦️🙏

Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. Appreciate you. St. Paisios intercede for us 🙏☦️🙏

Hey thanks for watching brother! Appreciate you 🙏

@@lightoftabor🍊🌸🌷🌼🍃Hey what’s your name?

Love St. Porphyrios as well. Such an awesome Saint. Thank you for watching! 🙏☦️🙏

@@lightoftabor God love you brother, you have an awesome Patron Saint.

The book is "The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios."

@@lightoftabor thank you 🙏🏾

🙏☦️🙏

Of mount Athos

Sorry its not roman or pagan. The eastern orthodox church canonises very holy miracle working people as saints.

@@perti888 PROVE IT

@@donhaddix3770 Well not only miracle working saints exist, people have written about getting healed from for example cancer by st paisios. There are also martyrs who have died and got tortured for their faith, people who have defended our faith from herecy

@@perti888 every born again person is a saint. other religions have died for their faith as well. only God knows who are saints. MANY FALSE MIRACLES HAVE BEEN CLAIMED.