This makes me so happy!
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with President Rivlin of the state of Israel.
And confirms that I was right to leave liberal Protestantism , with its growing anti-Israel bias, which is a reflection of their desire to cut themselves off from the root of Christianity. Silly branches.
Monday, March 21, 2016
The exile explained
Yes, reader(s?), I am still on my Orthodox path... just not blogging much.
Today I listened to Father Barnabas Powell's podcast and was struck by his explanation of the Fall of Adam and Eve and God's reaction. Keeping humans away from the Tree of Life after eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was not just because He didn't want the competition of more immortal beings running around (though I guess he did have His hands full with the Angelic Upstairs/Downstairs activities), but because if we had that next piece of fruit, we would be stuck with our knowledge of our sin and no way back to God. The fallen angels cannot repent, and we would not be able to if we were immortal. Our mortality is a mercy.
Today I listened to Father Barnabas Powell's podcast and was struck by his explanation of the Fall of Adam and Eve and God's reaction. Keeping humans away from the Tree of Life after eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was not just because He didn't want the competition of more immortal beings running around (though I guess he did have His hands full with the Angelic Upstairs/Downstairs activities), but because if we had that next piece of fruit, we would be stuck with our knowledge of our sin and no way back to God. The fallen angels cannot repent, and we would not be able to if we were immortal. Our mortality is a mercy.
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