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Nesse fio, juntarei conteúdo da teologia cristã ortodoxa que traduzo, salvo pela internet ou crio. 🧵
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Postulio ☦️🇧🇷 retweeted
Sainthood is not univocal in Orthodox Christianity. Attaining the status of sainthood merely means that it is evident that one is not in Hades. A lay martyr is not level with Saint Symeon the New Theologian. According to Saint Cleopa, there are nine types of prayer, and only one in ten thousand earnest strivers for true prayer reaches the sixth stage, while only one person in a generation reaches the ninth. Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite lists six categories of the saved in the Eschaton. The implications of this hierarchy of holiness are profound.
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“The Jesus Prayer will raise you to a spiritual state wherein the whole of nature will appear to you with indescribable beauty. Creation will seem to converse with you, to smile upon you. And when, through the Prayer, you are drawn into higher realms, you will behold nature in its transfigured form. All creation will seem to co-pray with you.”
- Saint Ephraim of Katonakia, The Fragrance of Christ
Papa é inimigo do cristianismo e da Europa.
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Ele está além. Bukele é claramente um aristocrata espiritual, com legitimidade para se proclamar monarca. Em sua alma, Deus concedeu o dom da governança natural; cabe agora a ele propagar essa dádiva pela consubstancialidade sanguínea, estabelecendo herdeiros educados desde o berço, para que deem continuidade ao legado.
El Salvador tem a faca e o queijo na mão para relembrar ao mundo o que é a governança natural baseada em nobreza espiritual e de sangue.
Bukele é o único que entendeu o conceito de caudilhismo realista.
Ele incorporar os princípios de Francisco Morazan e se opõe de verdade a doutrina Monroe.
Por isto há uma diferença brutal entre esta direita entreguista para uma direita nacionalista a qual Bukele faz parte genuinamente.
O cara tem conhecimento da história monárquica ibero-americana e invés de rejeita-la ele abraça tal legado cultural como parte de sua política de Estado.
Já estes outros patifes não conseguem ser nada além de lacaios de um sistema financeiro que despreza as tradições mais profundas da América Latina.
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Against the heretics who say that we are sinful by nature, by St Photios the Great:
"A book was read [to me], entitled: 'Theodoros of Antioch, Against Those Who Say That Men Sin by Nature and Not by Will' ...
He writes this book against those of the West who have fallen sick with this disease … The points of their heresy, to state them in summary, are these:"
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"They say that not even infants, though newly born, are free from sin, since from Adam’s transgression the nature has come to exist in sins, and the sinful nature (as they would call it) extends to the whole race descended from him. They bring forward “I was born in sins” and the like; and holy baptism itself, and the communion of the immaculate Body for the remission of sins, and the fact that these are given to infants also, they produce this in confirmation of their own opinion."
"Such are the positions of the heretics. Theodoros does well to reject them; in places he strikes excellently and with force at the strangeness and blasphemy of their notions, and, fitting the proper senses to the words of Scripture which they wrongly understood, he utterly convicts them of ignorance."
Note: Theodoros of Antioch believed that we do not inherit any corruption from Adam, and Photios disagreed with him on this. But regarding inherited guilt/sinning in Adam, Photios expressed his delight in agreeing with Theodoros and said that he destroyed the "Western heretics" with ease.
- Saint Photios the Great, Bibliotheca
There are concepts equivalent to the eyes of the heart, the heart, and the nous in most religions and metaphysical/transcendental doctrines. This is because, whether Christian or pagan, the Imago Dei is present in everyone, even though we have lost the divine likeness, and in man there remains a vestigial nostalgia for paradise, since universal human nature was created in paradise and longs for return by intuition. That is why the Calvinist doctrine of the total depravity of nature is heretical, although the idea that pagans worship the Holy Trinity, as post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism claims, is also wrong (worship means divinely established liturgy).
I have no problem admitting similarities with the Christian faith and even influences, because I understand all other beliefs (natural religion) in the light of revealed religion. The intuition generated by the nous is what other traditions call buddhi (Hinduism), prajñā (Buddhism), and it is also what is called neshamah (Judaism), al-aql (Islam), and intellectus (Roman Catholicism; although later it was confused with reason itself, unfortunately), and what modernity calls the pineal gland. It's also what Roman Catholic theology calls the ground of the soul or abditum mentis (St. Augustine), also called grunt or seelengrund by Meister Eckhart, and the center of the soul (Seventh Mansion) by Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross. In Holy Orthodoxy, we understand that this organ was made to contemplate the things above and to experience God, but it is under strong obstruction and needs to be purified. It must descend to the spiritual center of man, which, again, is the heart. We understand that baptism is indispensable for recovering the lost divine likeness, since from it synergy becomes possible, but the longing for God is perennial, and divine grace is also given to some extent to pagans, as St. Seraphim of Sarov teaches. As for Buddha, he probably contemplated the unfathomable light of his own soul and saw the divine image there, but it is still not the uncreated light. Hindu ascetics too, from our perspective, may be contemplating either the light of their own soul (which leads them to confuse it with Brahman, and from this non-dualist metaphysics is born) or demonic lights, but it is still not the uncreated light. St. Silouan speaks about this. That said, pagans such as Siddhartha Gautama, Lao Tzu, Ramanujacharya, and Plato were certainly among the first to recognize Christ when he descended to the mansion of the dead, and they are in paradise today. Plato himself appeared to a Christian monk saying that he was the first to recognize Christ.
And I go further: things like the Buddhist trikaya (doctrine of the three bodies) is certainly an insight into the Holy Trinity within a monist metaphysics, just as what the Hindus call Sat-Chit-Ananda is certainly an insight into the Holy Trinity within a non-dualist metaphysics.
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Postulio ☦️🇧🇷 retweeted
One of the meanings of the Greek word for salvation, sozo (σῴζω), is literally "to heal". Salvation is a lifelong process, therefore a therapy, and Christ is the physician. He calls Himself a physician in Luke 5:31 and Mark 2:17, and the disciples of the apostles have said the same since St. Ignatius of Antioch.
These people should just drop salvation (theosis!) and embrace Satan already, since they love being externally imputed with an empty belief that never produces any ontological change.
De acordo com Antônio Menezes, o Cardeal Sarah é um "direitista que compra narrativas de agendas anti-cristãs", pelo visto. 🥴
Você tem dupla-cidadania portuguesa, certo? Talvez você só aprenda quando o mal gerado pela escória invasora bater na sua porta. Minha irmã visitou Paris ano passado e disse que Istambul era mais branca, mais europeia e, pasme, MAIS CRISTÃ.
Diga-se de passagem, o Cardeal Sarah é o tipo de homem que ortodoxos devem ter conversas ecumênicas, não com o Vaticano woke dos neo-papas que são contra re-imigração e até mesmo contra prisão perpétua ().
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Respondendo aqui porque fui bloqueado sem motivo.... 🤷♂️
Discriminação injusta, o desprezo pelo próximo e atribuição de inferioridade moral a alguém por sua origem não é necessariamente racismo... É apenas anti-cristianismo pois nosso dever é amar o próximo! Mas nem toda discriminação racial é injusta, pois há contexto. A escória que está invadindo o Reino Unido e a França, por exemplo, MERECE O RACISMO E A EXPULSÃO IMEDIATA, assim como brasileiro que vai forçar malandragem no Japão MERECE O RACISMO.
Racismo é uma expressão guarda-chuva que perdeu o sentido, tipo fascista e nazista. "Racista" é qualquer coisa que narcisistas querem te rotular para destruir a sua vida, e hoje se tornou uma expressão instrumentalizada contra quem é branco que afeta até quem não é, e há também os cucks, como aquele alemão que se odeia e veio para o Brasil atacar sulistas negando a eles a ascendência europeia enquanto eleva africanismo e indigenismo.
Já falei para você, Antônio, essa mentalidade politicamente correta igualitária só existe em países onde o esquerdismo dominou a cultua. Quanto menos esquerdista cultural é o país, menos essa bobajada de igualitarismo entre povos existe. Vá para a China, Leste Europeu, nos bálcãs e em inúmeras regiões da África pregar essa visão ANTI-NATRUAL de que um chinês é europeu, ou que africano é europeu etc etc etc. Vão rir da sua cara. Essa insanidade toda é moderna, cara, acorda!🤷♂️
A única igualdade que o cristianismo requer é a unidade no Deus encarnado, nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo! Nada disso abole a biologia, e se abole, então seja coerente e adote uma teologia liberal e se diga mulher, porque "em Cristo não há homem nem mulher".
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Saint Augustine is partially right about universals. His mistake was saying that the universals exist in God's mind while simultaneously collapsing the divine mind into the divine essence. The universals are in God's mind because they are grounded in their eternal reasons (logoi), which have always existed with God. But God's mind is still not His essence, which lies beyond the mind and even beyond the very concept of divinity.
In any case, he's more right than wrong. The logical consequence of treating every abstract object as something with no relation to transcendental categories outside the human mind can lead to two extremes: on one side, nominalism and also solipsism, and on the other, panpsychism, where the whole of reality is a mind. This only works in a monist, pantheist, or acosmist metaphysics, but not in a Christian one. If universals exist only in the mind, then logic, which is universal, becomes impossible, and there is no way to epistemically justify the relation between subject and object.
Postulio ☦️🇧🇷 retweeted
Okay, time to go full autism on Bleach and religion (don’t take it too seriously)...
I listed some of the similarities between Bleach and Orthodox Christianity, and I also created a fictional scenario.
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IF BLEACH TOOK PLACE IN AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PARALLEL UNIVERSE:
• Shinigami: Saints and intercessory angels who act as co-administrators of heavenly affairs (they are Ortho-Shinigamis and Ortho-Angels)
• Seireitei: The Communion of Saints and Angels (also Ortho-Shinigamis and Ortho-Angels)
• Division Zero / Royal Guard: Archangels or Orthodox Elders (gerondas, starets)
• Central 46: The Celestial Pan-Orthodox Council, which is also correlated with the biblical concept of the Divine Council
• Rukongai and its districts: The 'many mansions in the Father’s house' (different levels and hierarchies in Heaven)
• Hollows in general: Demonic beings, the hole in their bodies symbolizes that sin has no substance
• Hollows gillian, adjuchas, vasto lordes and arrancars: principalities and powers, nephilim (bizarre hybrids) and elite demonic beings (Espadas)
• Vaizards: bizarre hybrids, but right-hand-path occultists, they’re a hermetic and christian neoplatonic syncretic order that was anathematized by the Byzantine Soul Society.
• Quincy: apostate Jews who reject the Soul King and fight against the messianic figure of Ichigo, who possesses a shinigami nature and a human nature, in addition to the quincy nature he inherited from his mother
• Dangai: The pathway related to the soul’s transition and journey, connected to the orthodox doctrine of the Aerial Toll Houses. These trials begin already on Earth through Hollow attacks and continue afterward, leading either to the Byzantine Soul Society or to condemnation in Hueco Mundo/"Hellish Hueco Mundo" (Orthodox Sheol or Hell, but not the Helish Lake of Fire yet)
• Hueco Mundo: Hades, Sheol or Hell - The underworld understood as having various degrees or levels according to the state of each soul - for example, baby-form Nel Tu and her friends don’t really suffer
• Bleach’s version of Hell: The Orthodox Lake of Fire (gehenna, eternal damnation, the worst Hollows and Nephilim are there)
• Zanpakuto and Asauchi: It’s your guardian angel who assists you; you get one when you're baptized after Chatolic Orthodox Shinigami Academy and become an Ortho-Shinigami
• Shikai: Theoria (illumination), achieved through introspection and 'nepsis' (watchfulness) in the inner world of the Ortho-Shinigami
• Bankai: Theosis (deification), when the light of your soul, united with the Uncreated Light, manifests outwardly and transmits grace. The Orthodox Shinigami doesn’t shout “Bankai!” - he shouts “THE—OSIS!”. To achieve Bankai in Bleach, you have to dive into the inner universe of your own soul. In Orthodox theology, we have something called the noetic universe of the soul, where the nous, or the 'Eyes of the Heart', must be opened through purification (katarsis), because the heart is a literal temple where the Holy Spirit dwells. Our guardian angel helps with that.
• Hollow's Resurrección: or demonosis... Many Vasto Lordes shout "DEMONOSIS!" when they transform
• Quincy Vollständig: or Kabbalism... Many Quincies shout "OY VEY" when they transform
• Reishi: The Logoi (divine principles or inner reasons within things, in Orthodox theology)
• Reiryoku: Radiant, uncreated grace. In Orthodoxy, it’s what we call a theophoric soul, or a vessel of God
• Shunpo: The miracle technique of bilocation
• Kido, Hado and Bakudo: Exorcism techniques performed through the recitation of prayers and akathist hymns by wonderworking Ortho-Shinigamis
• Jibakurei: Demonic possession or the souls of people facing the Aerial Toll Houses
• Soul King: A God-like figure, crucified before the foundation of the world (theology of Pre-Incarnate Logos, perhaps?)
• The Primordial Sea: Maybe something related to the Divine Essence? Saint Gregory of Nazianzus calls God a Sea of Essence in his Orations. Or perhaps this concept could also be connected to the Orthodox doctrine of the uncreated energies, which are always active. The Primordial Sea is the dwelling place of Adnyeus, the Soul King in Bleach, and the Bible says in Psalm 18:11 that God made darkness His secret place. Well, Kubo didn’t elaborate much on this part of Bleach’s cosmology, which seems somewhat monistic and at the same time de-teleologized, BUT NOT IN ORTHODOX BLEACH!
• Aizen: a precursor to the Quincy-Antichrist and a fallen Ortho-Shinigami
• Yhwach: The Antichrist Jew
• Wandenreich: The army of Jews and Gnostics
• Ichigo: A Christ-like figure. Just as Christ, in His kenosis (self-emptying), assumed a fallen nature and faced the Blameless Passions, Ichigo, in his perfect will, did not give in (okay, that one was pretty forced...)
• (the Orthodox Ichigo touches his Ortho-Shinigami emblem, an Orthodox Cross, to leave his body)
• Urahara: an important Desert Father and a respected Hesychast. However, due to some of his heterodox views, he was banished from the Byzantine Soul Society - a controversial expulsion that remains disputed to this day. Even so, he continues to defend the Soul Society and serves as Ichigo’s spiritual father
Additionally, just as the Shinigami possess a hierarchical order, the Orthodox Bleach parallel universe also features monastic degrees: dokimos, rasophore, stavrophore, and the Great Schema - alongside ecclesiastical ranks within each squad of the Gotei 13: deacon (5th Seat), presbyter (4th Seat), bishop (3rd Seat), archbishop (Lieutenant), patriarch (Captain), and primate (Commander of the 1st Division).
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Postulio ☦️🇧🇷 retweeted
Logos is the singular of logoi and logoi is the plural of logos. It's obvious that the uncreated Logos is the Son, but there is no division between the Divine Logos and his logoi, since each logoi are eternally contained in the Logos as his intentions, ideas and predeterminations. When we say that creation is ex nihilo, it's not from nothing as if by magic, but rather that every aspect of creation is based on its respective logoi, like a map by which the architect of the universe will raise its foundations so that later he can build upon them. What we call logos and logoi is nothing other than the subtle structure of reality; it's God himself dispersed in all things, binding universals to particulars without dissolving them. Some monks and saints are able to contemplate the logoi directly by observing the nature around them with the purified nous united to the heart, because the logoi are part of the uncreated divine energies.
Regarding St. Photius, again, he was correctly opposing Plato's transcendental and dualist realism, which believed in essences separate from concrete things, as if they existed only in a parallel intelligible world, treating the sensible world as something imperfect or inferior. On this point he is correct, but if his conceptualism goes beyond that and treats transcendental categories and every abstract object such as universals as if they existed only in the human mind/deprived of ontological status, he is factually wrong! Logic was divinely established and is not reduced to the mind, although it's also in the mind and that is why we can defend the correspondence between subject and object (Romans 1:20). This logic is even above the saints, who are not immune to errors (St. Augustine defended double predestination, for example). And the logical consequence of treating every abstract object as something that has no relation to external transcendental categories can lead you to two errors: at one extreme, to nominalism, at the other extreme, to panpsychism where the whole of reality is a mind, which only works in a monist, pantheist or acosmist metaphysics, but not a Christian one.
That said, I definitely need to read more texts of St. Photius because this platform loves cherry-picking, lol. I say the same of St. Gennadios. I am very far from being an expert on the subject.
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Sorry, but you're wrong. The word logoi is nothing more than the plural of logos, and its translation literally means "reasons." St. John of Damascus calls these logoi exactly divine ideas, and St. Dionysius calls them predeterminations. Other saints call them by other names, also treating them as divine words spoken by the Word, who in turn was spoken by the Father through the Holy Spirit, as the divine Person who makes possible the harmonious transition/connection from the transcendent to the immanent.
There are multiple valid translations to express the concept. Yes, divine intentions is also correct, but it is precisely because they are intentions that they are the ideas of the one who intended them, and that is why there is telos in the world and creation is a free act of God rather than mechanical emanations in which the divinity needs to "disintegrate" monistically in order to produce multiplicity. The logoi have true existence because they possess ontological status (they are embedded in the divine energies), just as universals and essences (which are created on the basis of their logos) possess ontological status instead of existing only in our mind. If it were not so, logic itself would be impossible, since it preexists the human mind, and St. Paul says in Romans 1:20 that divine logic is observed in nature (that is, there is logic external to the mind because there are logoi sustaining each thing).
The logoi are neither universals nor essences, but that which makes universals and essences possible: it's the uncreated God in created things. God is literally present in every atom. It's correct to treat the logoi as divine archetypes or the architectural blueprint of reality. It's only necessary to qualify.
TL;DR There is no separation between the Logos (the Word) and the logoi, just as there is no separation between you and your thoughts.
Postulio ☦️🇧🇷 retweeted
"In hell there is a democracy, but in Heaven there is a Kingdom."
- St. John of Kronstadt
Pray for us blessed saint!
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"[Antony] lead Orthodox thought away from the scholastic-rationalistic path and onto the blessed ascetic path."
- St Justin Popović, The Mystery of the Personality of Metropolitan Anthony and His Meaning for Orthodox Slavdom
'First of all, let us examine the words of the Apostle Paul to the Romans (5:12): “As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, in whom all sinned.” If “in whom” is understood as “in which”, it is unclear what this “which” refers to. To the one man? The words stand too far apart. To the world? Possibly. To death? That too is possible, for in Greek “death” (θάνατος) is masculine. We take up the Russian translation and at once see the treacherous italics, where, as has already been said, Catholic and Lutheran conjectures are mostly to be found: “because in him all sinned.” Were this interpretation correct, it would be the chief, and perhaps the only, basis for the juridical theory and for ascribing to God a blood-feud against a whole race. “As from an infected spring,” we read in the textbook, “flows corrupted water,” and so on. But permit me: a spring and its water are one thing; living, morally responsible people are quite another. It is not by our own choice that we are Adam’s descendants, so why should we bear the guilt of his disobedience? To make Christ’s redemption our own we must struggle hard; can it be, then, that the condemnation of all on account of Adam befell men apart from the guilt of each one of them? The Apostle says here that the gift was poured out more richly than the condemnation (Rom. 5:15), whereas the juridical interpretation yields the very opposite.'
- Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitsky, The Dogma of Redemption, 1917
Can numbers be counted infinitely or not? Numbers are infinite, but they aren't eternal in the same sense that God is eternal. What makes numerical logic possible is the divine logic (the divine energies), which preexists numbers yet is contained within them. Numbers are intelligible realities (metaphysical and spiritual) that exist outside time and space and sensible creation (physical and material). However, they can only be concretely abstracted from things, since things are inseparable from numbering, just as there are no universals without particulars, and vice versa. It's not that numbers are some kind of floating essences or anything of the sort. Rather, numerical logic is an objective, transcendental reality, not a mental construct.
Likewise, the angels are metaphysical infinitudes outside time and space, and although they had a beginning, they have no perception of a beginning, for they are situated in a state of "eternal now" contemplating God, varying only in choir, which metaphysically is a measure of "aeonic scale", so to speak. St. Maximus teaches that the angels below cannot comprehend the reality of the angels above, and so on successively. Besides choirs, this is also called angelic dwellings, but in reality they are states and also true worlds, which are their own individual hypostatic lights shared and interconnected as a web. It's the same principle as the Communion of Saints and the various dwellings in the Father's house, as Our Lord teaches parabolically, and which appears symbolically in our icons in the form of saints in collective clouds or individual clouds.
Angels are capable of entering time and space to intercede and are also responsible for the maintenance of parts of the universe, as St. Gregory of Nazianzus teaches. Therefore, although they are beyond the three dimensions as St. John Damascene teaches, in time and space they move from one point to another. I believe they empty themselves of their aeonic state to a certain degree in order to enter time and space, condescending to our level, so to speak...
This angelic state is similar to the state of the saints in the heavens, and it will be even more intense in the general resurrection when we receive glorified bodies similar to that of Christ. This transcendental body surpasses time and space and is also cosmic, and that is why we call the eschaton the end of times. It's also the metaphysical reason why hell is eternal: transcendence and immanence will collapse into an eternal now where metanoia is impossible. That is also why demons, who are aeonic by nature, cannot look back and repent, and those who fell fell from the eternal now, as St. Theophan the Recluse affirms, saying that Satan fell from the realm of non-thought and non-form to brute thought and form, becoming a dense being until he fell into Eden and tried to replicate the angelic fall in the primordial couple. And that is why time is a measure of distance and proximity to God, as St. Dumitru Staniloae teaches. And that is why we say in orthodox theology that man can become uncreated by grace while remaining a creature: he is capable of entering a state similar to that of the angels and beyond, sharing in the divine omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence, which are uncreated divine energies.
TL;DR: God, although infinite, is beyond infinity. When we speak of divine eternity and infinity, it is not in a quantitative sense, and that is why there is "created eternity", and it's also not heretical to speak of created preexistence in relation to the material universe, time, and space.
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I think you're missing the point.
Is the Archangel Michael one angel, two, or three?
Is the Archangel Gabriel one angel, two, or three?
Was Satan one angel, two, or three?
Were the demons called Legion multiple angels or not?
Were these beings created outside the time and space of the material universe or not?
If they were (as Orthodox theology attests), then they were numbered BEFORE the material universe. That is, numbers (the very possibility of enumerating things) were created OUTSIDE of time and space, and they are inseparable from the things that are numerically counted. Numbers are abstractions that point to something concrete. In fact, the question is not even about conceptualism versus transcendental idealism... it's more basic.
This whole discussion started because Hill, the sophist, keeps insisting on misinterpreting other Orthodox Christians, thinking that the word 'preexistence' or saying that something exists before creation cannot refer to anything other than the eternity of the uncreated God. David Patrick Harry was discussing with a materialist reductionist who was simultaneously an antirealist (lol) and who denied the existence of universals by saying that numbers and numerable things don't exist outside the human mind. There are things prior to the human mind, such as the very logic that makes numerical logic possible. That was his entire point.
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@Postulliok St. Maximos here is referring to individual beings subsisting in themselves, their place in the Liturgical Cosmos known by the degree in which they accord with God's purpose (logos) for them, which is only participatory. "Number" is not included in the ranks of these individual beings. He's very explicit.
"Every number, therefore, is indicative not of the relation itself of things (I mean division and continuity), but of the quantity of those things to which it pertaineth, introducing the logos of their quantity,
but not of their manner of existence.
For how could it also be able to introduce together with itself the relations of things, which both exist before it and are capable of being known without it, when it hath no indication of affinity with them, being kept apart from those relations by the quantity of the things, which standeth between? For when we behold a multitude of men, or horses, or oxen, and suchlike things, we know, even apart from number, as I said before, that each existeth in itself and is individually divided according to hypostasis. But when we have recourse to number for the manifestation of their quantity, we by no means posit it as the cause of their relation, since we have had no need of it whatsoever in order to know that relation …"
-- St. Maximos, On the Right Doctrines on the Church of God, and Against Severus
Number discloses discrete quantity but it does not disclose a being's tropos as it is not a necessary entailment of a being ontologically or epistemically.
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Numbers, geometric forms, and the essences of things, as well as each logoi, universals, angels, and angelic choirs, preexist in the mind of God. Numbers, specifically, were created in the angelic aeon, for God, as a Primary Splendor, infinitely pours forth numerous angels as secondary splendors (as St. Gregory Nazianzen teaches).
These realities exist beyond the time and space of the material universe (since they precede it). There is no contradiction here: uncreated divine eternity is different from created eternity! This is precisely why man can become uncreated by grace while remaining a creature. It's also for this same reason that there is no angelic metanoia: angelic nature is aeonic, and angels exist in a state of "eternal now", although they vary in scale, level, and choir according to their proximity to or distance from God.
Immaterial and abstract things should be understood in a similar way to how we understand angels.
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Another example that Hill the sophist shouldn't be taken seriously and is dominated by the prelest of contrarianism.
The concept of created metaphysical infinities or eternities just doesn't enter his head. He thinks numbers only began to exist with human time and space. He must also think that angels are bound within the domains of human time and space and the material universe. He doesn't know the various uses of the word αἰών in the Fathers and is unfamiliar with the concept of aeviternity (aevum)/aeonic realities. This is because he is a nominalist, even though he denies it.
There's no point arguing with someone who argues just for the sake of arguing...
May God heal Hill the sophist from the prelest of contrarianism against other Orthodox Christians.
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Eu sei que Deus existe pela razão, mas sei, acima de tudo, através do coração, nos raros momentos em que consegui me purificar o suficiente para SABER, por experiência, que Deus existe.
Sou um ser imundo que já fez coisas terríveis com quem eu amo, sem falar que xingo toda hora, fico irritado com frequência, já comi mulher de amigo, já agredi fisicamente os outros quando eu não estava com a razão, faço piadas dos piores tipos possíveis, já passei a perna nos outros, já me entupi de álcool várias vezes e sai comendo putas... Apesar disso, em alguns momentos, consigo sentir a presença de Deus após as orações, especialmente depois de consumir Deus.
Na teologia cristã ortodoxa, enfatizamos a distinção entre uma mente racional e outra espiritual que está, ou deveria estar, conectada ao coração. O conhecimento verdadeiro de Deus verdadeiro não se dá pela razão, e digo mesmo sendo capaz de defender a existência de Deus usando ela.
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