“What did the Savior do as the great High Priest? In His capacity as the great High Priest, the Savior offered Himself up as a spotless sacrifice to His God and Father, an atoning sacrifice; He was both the officiator and the sacrifice, propitiating and...

"This is what the Apostle expressed when he said: 'who was delivered up for our trespasses, and raised again for our justification' (Rom. 4:25): Delivered up to suffering and death, to pay our sinful debts." –St. Theophan the Recluse, Commentary on Romans azbyka.ru/otechnik/Feofa…

"Every man that is not absolved by the water of regeneration, is tied and bound by the guilt of the original bond—For that every living being is conceived in the guilt of our first parent the Prophet witnesses, saying, And in sin hath my mother conceived me." St Gregory the Great

"Who ever before his monstrous disciple Cœlestius denied that the whole human race is involved in the guilt of Adam's sin?" St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitory

EO hierarchs need to get the internet larpers under control that give EO a terrible name/image. Grifters like Andrew and Rachel Wilson. Nathaniel the “monk” “Deacon” ananias “Father” Moses McPherson. How many internet popes do they need lol.

"In order to understand the Gospel, the good, welcome news, we must first understand that we are in need of good news." –Hieromartyr Fr. Daniel Sysoev, A Sobering Book: Explanation of the Book of Ecclesiastes, p. 11

Many such cases. I see it with every group. They can only sustain their romantic pictures of their home countries by engaging in fantasy from a distance.

“Orthodox theologians and clergy must also be careful not to play the game of pitting ‘experience’ against ‘rationality,’ the heart against the head, as is so often done in the name of a supposed ‘mystical theology.’ In fact, such dichotomies have more to do with the Romantic…

I take authenticity seriously. If OE really cared about this, Honeycutt wouldn't be Tweeting conspiracy theories every minute and Heers wouldn't be doing his grift.

"But Father Peter! I need my phone to watch Orthodox Ethos" "In that case then keep your phone as we are the only Orthodox channel keeping True Orthodoxy alive." youtu.be/gXX2XHo_sK8?si…

Attached: Him denying original sin (from Empirical Dogmatics, p. 184) Denying the Bible being revelation and God's word (preachersinstitute.com/2010/01/18/the…) Teaching old earth & Bible errancy (bio-orthodoxy.com/2014/06/fr-joh…) Not wanting to call Augustine "blessed" (intro to Ancestral Sin)

He is in heaven, and prays for his misguided enemies.

From a priest on FB

This is a phenomenon I have also discussed with clergy. People join Orthodoxy and are taught Romanideanism in catechesis. If and when they later devote serious time to studying the Fathers, they may have a crisis-of-faith upon discovering that the faith they thought they were…

"The Saviour Christ went up to the Cross. He was crucified to pay the ransom. He was sacrificed for the life and salvation of the world. He offered Himself as a sacrifice to God the Father. Because He was God, the sacrifice was accepted." St. Kallinikos of Edessa (+1984)

"After Augustine, among the saints, died, certain clergy began…to speak evilly of Augustine…. Yet Celestine of Rome checked this roving delusion, writing on behalf of the divine man…. Prosper, truly a man of God…finished them off." –St. Photius the Great, Pillar of Orthodoxy

The funniest thing of course, is that our views do in fact represent the "majority" opinion. And for several centuries of note, it would have been the consensus opinion. In the former, they argue that the church, including on issues the EP and MP presently agree on, they say the…

Fr. George Florovsky, via Fr. Matthew Baker, found it “embarrassing” when Orthodox Christians reject rationality and doctrine in exclusive favor of feelings and experiences. Orthodoxy is not an irrational religion, and reason - when ordered and oriented properly - is a gift from…

"[L]aid upon Jesus Christ were the sins of the whole world, the legal curse prescribed to the whole human race for sins, the greatness of God's wrath, rushing upon Him after the acceptance of the sins, and the feeling of the punishments of hell. Thus, Christ endured for us...

"O Father, at the Council which the Holy Spirit assembled in Carthage, thou didst shine forth with uprightness of dogmas, wisely proclaiming the Orthodox faith, O all-blessed Augustine, thou who art worthy of wonder." –a hymn for St. Augustine, by St. Gerasimos Mikragiannitis

This is literally an Athonite saint and elder, and he praises St. Augustine for his dogmatic work, and SPECIFICALLY for his work at Carthage 419 (which condemned Pelagianism and dogmatized Original Sin).