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“My Latin brothers, I urge you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled with God; return to the Orthodox, Catholic and Apostolic Church, from which you have wrongly strayed, that from now on we may be one Church, a single flock with a single shepherd.” Blessed Dositheus of Jerusalem

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"The Latin Church is of apostolic origin; but she departed from the apostolic traditions and became corrupted. Her main sin is the passion to forge new dogmas, according to her own thinking and willfulness." St Theophan the Recluse

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"As regards—the Latins and the Protestants—we accept the baptism of both one and the other. We respect the Apostolical Succession of the Latin hierarchy, and those of their clergy who join our Church we accept in the Orders which they then possess" Russian Holy Synod, 1903

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"There are some ignorant men among the clergy who would re-baptize Romans, as well as Lutherans and Calvinists, when they come over to the Eastern Church—But the Seventh Canon of the Second Ecumenical Council sufficiently refutes [this]" St. George of Mogilev

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"As for whether God could have forgiven men without this [sacrifice on the Cross], my answer is this: He could not have, for He is at once both merciful and just. Consequently, God could not allow evil to go unpunished." Fr. Daniel Sysoev, Letter 123

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"Murder is evil, for it belongs only to God to separate the soul from the body, for He united it, but if I kill by the command of God, it is good, for everything that is of the Good is good." St. John of Damascus, Against the Manicheans 14

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2 years

"Everything necessary to salvation is stated in the Holy Scriptures with such clearness, that every one, reading them with a sincere desire to be enlightened, can understand them. 'Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path'..." (1/2) St. Philaret of Moscow

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"Let no one think that the Holy Spirit is from Him [the Son], just as He is from the Father; on the contrary, both are of the Father, this one is born, that one proceeds; but these two acts are, no doubt, very difficult to distinguish" St. Augustine, Contra sermonem Arianorum, 23

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"In the writings of Blessed Augustine alone, Adam Zernikov and Theophan Procopovich have found more than fifty passages where the dogma of the procession of the Holy Spirit is professed as the Eastern Church teaches it to this day." St. Philaret of Moscow

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11 months

"I do not consider the substitutionary Atonement to be heresy, but an accurate expression of Orthodoxy" Fr. Daniel Sysoev

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1 year

"When the priest performs the Divine Liturgy and reads the required prayers, the Holy Spirit will descend and transubstantiate the bread into the Body of Christ and the wine into the Blood of Christ. Behold God’s humility as it is repeated daily!" Elder Ephraim of Arizona

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"God knows what is good for us, we must bow down our heads and repeat the sacred words 'Thy will be done.'" St. Nicholas

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"The sacraments of heretics are recognized by—the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th Ecumenical Councils—St. Stephen of Rome, St. Vincent of Lerins, Bl. Augustine, St. Basil the Great, St. John of Damascus, St. Mark of Ephesus,St. Theophan the Recluse, St. Philaret of Moscow" Fr Daniel Sysoev

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"He took on Himself the punishment that we deserved from the Father—It is said, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (Gal 3:13). See then how he received the punishment inflicted from above?" St. John Chrysostom, Homily on the Ascension

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2 years

"People say, 'One who is not a monarchist cannot be a Christian.' But why he cannot remains a mystery—what does it matter what he considers greater or lesser in earthly matters, which are guaranteed to end?" Fr. Daniel Sysoev

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"In addition we also follow in everything the holy fathers and doctors of the holy church of God, Athanasius, Hilary, Basil, Gregory the Theologian and Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose, Augustine—and we accept everything they expounded on the orthodox faith" (Fifth Ecumenical Council)

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"I deserve to be mocked, insulted, buffeted, beaten, tortured, to die for all eternity! But You, my Lord and Sovereign, have suffered in my place. The servant sinned, but my Lord suffered the punishment—the servant was indebted but my Sovereign paid the debt" St Tikhon of Zadonsk

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"Your second article contains the assertion that every man is guilty of original sin. We also affirm that this is, indeed, the truth." (Patriarch Jeremias II, First Answer to the Lutherans 1576)

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1 year

"The Lord introduced the law of capital punishment for murder, which became a fundamental part of law in all subsequent governments." Fr. Daniel Sysoev

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"Such heretics—reject the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ—For them, the notion that the truth of God demanded the punishment of sinners, which the Innocent Christ voluntarily took upon Himself, is a sign of 'paganism.'" Fr Daniel Sysoev, On the New Marcionism

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2 years

"The only payment for the infinite debt of sin is the infinitely precious blood of God, and only His Cross, and the nails, and the sufferings, which only were able to counterbalance the weight of sin." St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite, Exomologetarion

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"The traditions and holidays of our ancestors we do not have the right to forget. Each nation has its own religious and national holidays and costumes and preserving the memory of their ancestors they protect and treasure them." St. Alexis Toth

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"God does not act without justice." St. Gregory Palamas, Homily Sixteen

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2 years

"Original sin is inherited and transferred to all men—When we accept human nature from Adam, we also accept sinful corruption, which is why people are born "children of wrath by nature", because the righteous wrath of God rests on Adam's sin-infected nature" (St. Justin Popovich)

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"The only pure and all-sufficient source of the doctrines of Faith is the revealed Word of God, contained in the Holy Scriptures... there is no article of faith which is not revealed in 'the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make us wise unto salvation'" St. Philaret of Moscow

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2 years

"He made our guilty nature new in Himself by taking it upon Himself from the Virgin’s blood, as was His good pleasure, and justifying it—He then freed all those born of Him according to the Spirit from the forefathers’ curse and condemnation" St Gregory Palamas on Theophany

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2 years

"You reject original sin, yet you do not provide a single reference to the Gospel. How then does your personal opinion—which contradicts not only the Bible, but the ordinary facts of life for all men—disprove Christianity? What is your logic?" Fr. Daniel Sysoev, Letters

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2 years

"If the patriarch commits a serious sin or begins teaching wrong beliefs, he will be deposed by a council—if the council of bishops makes an error, they can be set right by a council of bishops of the Universal Church. God guides the whole Church through the bishops." Fr. Daniel

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“No wonder, then, that it is hard to be a Christian—it is not hard, it is impossible. No one can knowingly accept a way of life which, the more truly it is lived, leads the more surely to one’s own destruction. And that is why we constantly rebel" (Fr. Seraphim Rose)

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"The God-man—offered a saving sacrifice to the Father, to Himself as God, and to the Spirit, from whom man was called from nothing to being, whom he offended by transgressing the commandment, with whom he was reconciled by the sufferings of Christ." Council of Constantinople 1157

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"The wrath of God against sin is implacable. To propitiate Him, it was necessary for Christ the Son of God to die for us and to appease the righteousness of God for us, which we had provoked by our sins. No one could have done this, except Him." St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

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"Innocent and sinless, He paid all the debt for people as if He Himself were guilty, returning them to the grace of the Kingdom and giving Himself as a ransom and atonement for us." St. Maximos the Confessor, Mystagogy 8

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"Having learned these things, and been fully assured that the seeming bread is not bread, though sensible to taste, but the Body of Christ; and that the seeming wine is not wine, though the taste will have it so, but the Blood of Christ" St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Lecture 22

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2 years

"The Son of God took upon Himself instead of me and you all of the horrors of eternal justice of eternal punishment that were due to me and to you; He drank the cup of the righteous wrath and fury of the Almighty God that should have been drunk by me and you" St John of Kronstadt

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"The human race was deep in debt and incapable of paying what it owed—either the penalty of death had to be imposed on all, because ‘all had sinned,’ or else a substitute had to be provided—One who was sinless had to die for those who had sinned" St. Proclus of Constantinople

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"We should pray and work in order to speed on that day in which a large part of Western Catholicism will unite with Orthodox Catholicism , for all peoples of the earth are called to be children of the Common Kingdom of God." St. Sebastian Dabovich

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2 years

"God the Father accepted the sacrifice of the Cross, as truly and completely reconciling His eternal justice with sinful people… The apostle does not promise us forgiveness of sins for our holy life: but by the very fact that Christ died for us" St. Philaret of Chernigov

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"The Scripture is Divine in inspiration—if we find difficulty in understanding anything we should suspect first our own lack of knowledge rather than a deficiency in the inspired text." Fr. Seraphim Rose

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"We were all guilty of sin and punishment. But He, the sinless one, having been punished instead of us, loosed the sin and punishment on the cross" St. Theophylact of Bulgaria, Commentary on Colossians 2:14

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"The whole of the Word of God is single, entire, indivisible truth; and if you admit that any narrative, sentence, or word is untrue, then you sin against the truth of the whole of Holy Scripture, and the Original Truth, Who is God Himself" St John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ

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3 years

@Granksanity1 Man just thinking about this should bring tears to someone's eyes. Think of the love of Paul and Stephen united in heaven. "There is nothing better than peace, in which all warfare of things in heaven and things on earth is abolished." - St. Ignatius

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2 years

"Ancestral sin is—disobedience to due obedience to the command of the Creator, not ignorance of the nous and an inclination to the inferior things, but rather the cause and the root thereof, transmitted to all men" St. Nektarios

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1 year

"This divine and holy Augustine—was deemed worthy of divine illumination and enlightenment. Thus, the most blessed one attained an inexhaustible and abundant wealth of theology—he became a great Teacher and most renowned Theologian of Christ's Church" St. Nikodemos, Synaxaristes

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9 months

@jaredef Here is the actual letter that the quote is from. It has nothing to do with what he's inserted in brackets.

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11 months

"Christ’s love requires a ruthless intolerance of false opinions, accompanied by a ruthless – in relation to oneself – love for the lost. One must not spare himself to serve the perishing, but the lying opinions of another person cannot be spared" Fr. Daniel Sysoev

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2 years

"Infants, notwithstanding the fact that they have not sinned by reason of any exercise of their own free and independent will, have nevertheless entailed upon themselves the original sin—they are truly, and not fictitiously, being baptized for the remission of sins." St Nikodemos

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"From the time that—the Son of God, impassible by reason of His Godhead, chose to suffer voluntarily He wiped out our debt, also paying for us a most full and noble ransom. We are truly free through the sacred blood of the Son pleading for us with the Father" St. John of Damascus

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2 years

"The whole nature of man became guilty in the person of him who was first formed but now it is wholly justified again in Christ. For He became for us the second commencement of our race after that primary one and therefore all things in Him have become new" St Cyril of Alexandria

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"For when the author of sin deceived Adam in the beginning, he made him to be guilty—and so it came about that he was brought down to death. Then the punishment passed upon all men, this condition coming forth just as things grow out of a root." St. Cyril of Alexandria

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"The sins of the whole world were laid on Jesus Christ; a legal curse prescribed to the whole human race for sins; the fullness of God's wrath, rushing at Him through the acceptance of sins and feeling the punishments of hell." St. Innocent of Penza, Dogmas of the True Faith XI

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9 months

"Baptism removes ancestral sin and every other voluntary sin, it does not, however, remove the ignorance of the intellect, and lust, and the implanted inclination of the heart toward sin, and the other effects which that ancestral sin brought about in human nature" St. Nikodemos

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2 years

"The judicial theory of redemption is wholly grounded in Scripture and the Tradition of the Church… The denial of the justice of God was condemned back in the second century as the heresy of Marcion." Fr. Daniel Sysoev, Letters, #12

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2 years

"The worship of latreia is given to the One God and Christ Himself, and to the bread and wine transubstantiated (μετουσιωμένῳ) into the Body and Blood of Christ in the Divine Eucharist" (St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite, The Rudder)

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"A countless number of sinners—have been justified and sanctified through the Most-Pure Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God Who took our sins upon Himself and suffered for them all of the punishment that had been prepared for us" St. John of Kronstadt

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2 years

"This confession [of St. Peter Mogila] was approved—by all four eastern patriarchs and unanimously accepted by the whole Orthodox Church. Thus, the said confession—is as important and significant as if it had been made by an Ecumenical Council" St. Nikodim Milash

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1 year

"[Every human] shares in Adam’s nature and shares also in Adam’s fall—For since, as the Apostle says, 'We all die in Adam,' this clause ['Forgive us our debts'] that is suitable for Adam’s repentance is appropriately applied to all who died together with him" St. Gregory of Nyssa

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@Goodtweet_man For those curious, the painting is 'And They Followed Him' by Johannes Raphael Wehle.

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"The spirit of the Theotokos rejoiced in her Savior because He who would save the world from its sins saved also the Theotokos from original sin. For she was beyond any deliberate sin, whether venial or mortal, even to the extent of being attacked by wicked thoughts" St Nikodemos

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2 years

"The God-Man willingly accepted death on the cross—having a single will with His Father and the Spirit, He laid the punishment on Himself, on the only One Who was not guilty of sin—for the redemption of mankind, who were guilty of sin." St. Ignatius Brianchaninov

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"He suffered these things, not for His own sake but for ours. ‘Thou hast made Thy wrath to rest upon me,’—For He did not die as being Himself liable to death: He suffered for us, and bore in Himself the wrath that was the penalty of our transgression" St. Athanasius the Great

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5 months

"In Adam all have sinned. Consequently, even children, not having personal sins, are all the same not free from original sin… and in order to be delivered from this legacy, they must be united with Christ… in the sacrament of Holy Baptism." Fr. Victor Potapov

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"When the Jew says to thee, 'How came it, that by the well-doing of this one Person, Christ, the world was saved?'—say to him, 'How by the disobedience of this one person, Adam, came it to be condemned?'" St. John Chrysostom, Homily 10 on Romans

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"As for innocent infants, there simply is no such thing." Fr. Daniel Sysoev, Letter 14

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2 years

"Holy Scripture is one of the greatest of God’s blessings to man, and it is a blessing which can be enjoyed and used by anyone—Scripture is divine wisdom, and wisdom so wonderful that it can be understood and comprehended by the simplest and most unlearned person" St. Innocent

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"This synod excommunicated those who asserted that Adam was created mortal, and that he did not suffer death as a punishment for his sin; also those who declared that infants newly born had no need of baptism, because they were not liable to original sin from Adam" St. Photius

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St. Photius the Great against Pelagianism.

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2 years

"Conceived in iniquities and born in sins, a man before baptism bears in himself all the poison of sin, with all the weight of its consequences. He is in a condition of God's disfavor; he is by nature a child of wrath." (St. Theophan the Recluse, The Path to Salvation)

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"That saying that calls no one sinless except God, even though he has lived only one day on earth, does not refer to those who sin personally—But in this is expressed that mystery of our Faith, that human nature is sinful from its very conception" St. Symeon the New Theologian

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"The righteousness of God was revealed in this, that He forgave the sins of men in no other way than by punishing Christ Jesus for them." St. Philaret of Chernigov, Orthodox Dogmatic Theology §199

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"There is no contradiction in the Holy Scriptures: God forbid that there should be—every word of Scripture is beyond reproach. The appearance of contradiction is due to our ignorance." St. Peter of Damascus, Philokalia Volume III

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"Sacrifices were intended as a continual reminder to men of their guilt before God, the original sin overshadowing them, and the fact that God could hear and accept their prayer only in the name of that sacrifice which should subsequently be offered—Christ the Messiah" Abp Averky

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2 years

"He was born on Earth not to live, for it was not for life that His earthly birth was necessary. No, He came to die, to plunge heavenly birth into Hell itself, to give birth to life-from-death, to lead the sons of Heaven from Hell" St. Philaret of Moscow

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2 years

"In the perpetual miracle of the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the true Body and Blood of Christ united with His Divinity and soul—the bread and wine, after their transubstantiation become not only a living soul, but a quickening spirit." (St. John of Kronstadt)

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2 years

St. Philaret, Longer Catechism "Adam is by nature the head of all mankind, which is one with him by natural descent from him. Jesus Christ, in whom the Godhead is united with manhood, graciously made Himself the new almighty Head of men, whom He unites to Himself through faith...

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"God made the Most Pure One sin for us, that is, He dealt with Him as a sinner, as if He Himself had committed all those sins, of which all men are guilty altogether. Through this alone could the righteousness of God be satisfied." St Theophan the Recluse

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"Hell is not evil in itself, rather it is also good—because hell is a penalty and punishment for evil, and with it God's justice is fulfilled. Hence, although hell is not God's prior will, it is his subsequent will" St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain

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2 years

"Q. Is it, in all cases murder, and against this [6th] commandment, to kill? A. No: it is not murder, nor against this commandment, when life is taken in the execution of duty; as when a criminal is punished with death, by just judgment; or again, when an enemy is killed in war"

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"He also took up death that the sentence might be fulfilled and satisfaction might be given for the judgement, the curse placed on sinful flesh even to death. Therefore nothing was done contrary to God’s sentence when the terms of that sentence were fulfilled" St Ambrose of Milan

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"Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God (Jn. 3:5). Baptism, therefore, is necessary for every man who enters the Church. Only through Baptism can infants be cleansed of Original Sin and enter into the Kingdom of Heaven" A Monk of St. Tikhon

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"We are all guilty of the Original Sin and doomed to suffering and death. Through the Passions and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ we are washed of this sin and saved from eternal suffering and death" Metropolitan Irenaeus of Moldova, Orthodox Christian Catechism

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2 years

"For this sacred food and drink, which are the Body and Blood of Christ, all our forefathers from the first-created Adam, and all the prophets hungered and thirsted, but did not receive them; but you, so distant from them by your unworthiness, partake of this Divine meal."

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"An enlightened interpreter of Holy Scripture is doubtless very desirable—but the idea that, in order to draw from it the Articles of Faith, a certain kind of despotic interpreter is necessary, lowers the dignity of the word of God, and subjects faith to the will of man." (2/2)

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"After the death of the holy Augustine certain of the clergy began to reassert these impious doctrines. They began to speak evil of Augustine—bishop Coelestine checked the renewal of this slander, writing to the bishops of the country in defence of that godlike man" St. Photius

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"I therefore advise you, when you desire to be saved, to obey in all things the Church in which you are, the Orthodox Eastern Greek-Russian Church; and in order to know its doctrine exactly, read 'The Orthodox Confession'" St. Macarius of Optina

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"Each man's soul inherited the wickedness of the first Adam. It spread from his soul to his body, and from his body to the bodies which derived from his, and from those bodies to the souls—We have not seen even one day pure from sin" St. Nicholas Cabasilas

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"To those who madly assert that the coming of the Son of God into the world in the flesh, and His voluntary passion, death, and resurrection were not necessary for our salvation and the expiation of sin, Anathema!" Sunday of Orthodoxy

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"It was necessary that we should be chastised—But this chastisement, which was due to fall on sinners so that they might cease warring with God, descended upon Him—God delivered Him up because of our sins so that He might release us from the penalty." St. Cyril of Alexandria

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2 years

"The ancient and sacred tradition of the Church confesses and accepts the enumeration of seven Mysteries... the Church also considered many other sacred services to be mysteries according to the more general understanding...

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1 year

"I sinned, and Thou didst take my sins upon Thyself. I am guilty, and Thou didst accept my punishment. I am in debt, and Thou, my Jesus, didst pay my debt for me... How much dishonor and torment Thou didst endure for me willingly, O Lord my God!" St. Gabriel of Seven Lakes

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"It was necessary that sin should be abolished by some penalty, and that we, by paying a just penalty, should be cleared of the indictment—It is for this reason that the Master who is without sin suffers many terrible things and dies and endures the blow." St. Nicholas Cabasilas

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2 years

"The greatest challenger to this heresy was Saint Augustine, the Athanasius of the West, who wrote prolifically against the heresy and its adherents." St. Nektarios, Holy Catechism

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@alexei_karamazo

2 years

"We defend the traditions of holy apostles and most venerable fathers... we also accept the Orthodox fathers, who—left us saving teachings, such as: the teaching of the venerable memory of... Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, venerable crown of Christ" Sixth Ecumenical Council

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

4 months

"Every person who is descendant of Adam and Eve, even though later in life he becomes the greatest saint, still begins his life in sin and is born in sin, as was said by the Holy Psalm writer" St. Alexis (Toth) of Wilkes-Barre

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

2 years

"Do we see the transubstantiation?—We do not see, but, without doubt, we believe in it... And what is the bread that is on the altar transformed into?—It is transformed into the essence of the Body of Christ, with only the appearance of bread remaining." (St. Dimitri of Rostov)

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

11 months

"For the sake of sinners He condemns Him Who is without sin; that all the elect might rise up to the height of righteousness, in proportion as He Who is above all underwent the penalties of our unrighteousness." Pope St. Gregory Dialogist

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

9 months

"'Peace', it says, 'good will toward men' (Luke 2:14). For God, who was angry with the human race and subjected it to terrible curses, has come in the flesh, granting His peace and reconciling them to the heavenly Father." St. Gregory Palamas

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

1 year

@CrypticCostas "The mortal sins for a Christian are the following: heresy, schism, blasphemy, apostasy, sorcery, despair, suicide, fornication, adultery, unnatural carnal sin, incest, drunkenness, sacrilege, murder, robbery, theft, and every cruel, inhuman offense." St. Ignatius Brianchaninov

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

1 year

"And if anyone does not think and say that Augustine is a saint and blessed, let him be anathema." "καὶ εἴ τις μὴ φρονεῖ καὶ λέγει τὸν Αὐγουστῖνον ἅγιον καὶ μακάριον εἶναι, ἀνάθεμα·" St. Gennadios Scholarios, De verbis patrum Latinorum de processu spiritus sancti

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

9 months

"All men without exception are subject to sin because of adam, and all must, in baptism, bury the old man of sin in order to be born as new men in Christ. the fact that death has dominion over all is for him a sign that sin and its punishment reign over all" Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

1 year

St. Vincent of Lerins on the council of Carthage that mandated rebaptism: "What result, under God, had that same African Council or decree? None whatever. The whole affair, as though a dream, a fable, a thing of no possible account, was annulled, cancelled, and trodden underfoot"

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Alexei

@alexei_karamazo

2 years

"The Lord became incarnate so that through the incarnation He would take upon Himself the punishments deserved by mankind, and through the punishment of the all-holy, He would redeem the guilty from punishment." St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, The Field

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