Orthodox Christian Theology

"Fight to the death for the truth and the Lord God will fight for you." (Sir 4:28)

About Me

A picture of my wife and me.
A picture of my wife and me.

I am just a run-of-the-mill Bible-reading, church attending layman. My wife and I are converts to Eastern Orthodoxy and have attended parishes in Ballston Lake, Herkimer. and Syracuse, NY.

As a matter of public knowledge, I have a general blessing by Bishop Luke of Syracuse to write and to encourage people to become Orthodox and to make clear this does not mean any view of my own is blessed by him or is his, but rather they are my own.

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  1. Minor Correction: to post of 2/7/2024@6:47pm. It doesn’t change the context of the message but the parenthetical statement needs repaired. The problem is with the word apostasy which is commonly used as a thought on the term falling away as used in Heb6:6, fall away. Those who wish to find excuse for sinning, use the word apostasy in the terms of renouncing God, the church, and Christ, and place that thought as the thought that is being conveyed by the term fall away, as though it is something more serious than sin, and there is an acceptable, or easily forgivable, amount of sin that God allows up to that point. The truth is that any sin is falling away, no matter how slight , if it is done willfully after that the believer has received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It is rebellion no less if it is committed with conscious knowledge. That is why Heb. 10:26 says, if we sin willfully. It is to be coupled with Heb. 6:6, for this reason. Sin is sin. There again those who twist the scriptures try to move the goalpost, so to speak, to try to frame an argument that there is an acceptable amount of sin, or that there are some sins that are more serious than others. The scripture did not say with lightness that this people draw near to me with their lips, but with their hearts they are far from me, Matt.15:8. And also, they profess that they know God, but in works (their habits, their customs, their traditions, willful sin) they deny him. Titus 1:16. If Christ is in you , and you are in him, where is an allowable amount of willful sin suggested in the scripture that says, in him is no sin?

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