Q St. Paul says that having received freedom to find
God if we try to, we ought not then to reduce the Divine Nature to an image
formed by the 'art and thought of man', as (powerless to help us as) idols of
gold or silver or stone.
A To do so is foreign to simplicity, to our faith.
Q The word ‘truth’ has suffered so much abuse that
many people are turned away by it – rather than by the abuses.
A We have to answer these people: Come and see for
yourself, live inside
Orthodoxy – because as we said before, truth to us is a
living thing, something we experience – and afterwards we’ll talk about it ...(laughs)
Q What can one say about a public mentality that
pursues peace by denying the existence of deception? A mentality with such fear
of truth that it re-defines it as the sum total of all deceptions? Why does
such a mentality refuse to understand that the Truth who is Christ hates no
one?
A The New Testament provides all information relative
to faith, but its truths must become truth in our own lives, for the eyes of
the soul to open.
Students study classical philosophy at university and
love it. But they don’t typically follow that up by becoming idol worshippers…
However a person cannot say 'I believe in Christ and in His teaching, but I am
not a Christian.' To love Christ means we strive to keep our life in agreement
with His will.
And when we do, we will live the promises preached by
our Christ – peace of soul, hope and joy, every good. Above all, hope, which
marks out the Christian who actually lives in Christ, because he never loses
his hope.
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