Hagia Sophia will shine again ! | Western French Orthodox waiting Emperor St. John III Doukas Vatatzes
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Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
‘Adam’s descendants inherit the mortal and corruptible nature of Adam and Eve, and not their guilt, as Augustine believed. In other words, ancestral sin is not inherited, but the consequences of ancestral sin are.
According to the teaching of St. Maximus, sin is a personal act, and inherited guilt is impossible. This further means that, following biblical and patristic teaching, sin is always bound to the person, not to nature.’
- “The Consequences of the Ancestral Fall.” Dogmatics 2. Orthodox Theological Faculty “St. Basil of Ostrog,” University of East Sarajevo
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C'est énorme ça : Le compte @teddyriner2027 est inscrit depuis 2024 et a changé son nom en novembre, j'ai demandé à Grok sous quel nom il était connu avant et voici la réponse : @lecornu2027.
Le compte actuel @teddyriner2027 a changé plusieurs fois de nom d’utilisateur depuis 1/2
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La résignation n'est pas une option. Face aux difficultés de notre pays, l'heure est venue de prendre ses responsabilités.
Je suis candidat à l'élection présidentielle de 2027.
#TeddyRiner2027 #Présidentielle2027 #LaFrancequonveut
Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
But since he (Adam) produced children after falling into this state, we, his descendants, are corruptible, coming from a corruptible source. Thus it is that we are heirs of Adam’s curse. That cannot mean at all that we are punished for having disobeyed along with him the divine injunction which he received; it means that he became mortal, as I said, and transmitted the curse (mortality) to his seed after him (for we are born mortal from a mortal source).
- St Cyril of Alexandria, Doctrinal Questions and Answers
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Stéphane Hablot député PS👇
« Teddy Riner ? C'est Macron qui l'a trouvé pour emmerder LFI. C'est pas sérieux. »
Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
‘According to the Holy Fathers, these children had no way to sin, to suffer for personal reasons, but they only inherit, by virtue of solidarity with human nature, of our forefathers Adam and Eve, the ancestral sin. Every human being is born with these consequences of ancestral sin. This is erased through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, but this does not mean that the affects do not remain, its consequences remain in the human being as predispositions to sin. According to the Holy Fathers, these children do not suffer the torments of hell. I remember a formula that we learned in dogmatics class: "They do not share in the light, but all are honored with silence." This is how the righteous of the Old Testament lived, who did not share in the divine light, until our Lord Jesus Christ descended into hell. The righteous of the Old Testament did not suffer the torments of hell (understood as a state of sadness, of loneliness), but they did not share in the light, instead, they shared in a peace, a peace of mind. It was only at the moment when Christ the Savior descended into hell that he introduced the state of light, the Light of Resurrection, and thus the beginning of Heaven was made. The first citizen of Heaven is the thief on the cross; at the same time he also brought out of hell the forefathers Adam and Eve, and all the righteous of the Old Testament. I believe that in the same way it will happen to these unborn babies, or those who died before baptism, in the sense that it would not be right for them to suffer the torments of hell, as it happens to those who did not repent, and who had time to repent. It remains a mystery that God knows.’
- Archbishops Ciprian of Buzău and Vrancea
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🚨 MIG S'EXPRIME SUR LA CANDIDATURE DE TEDDY RINER
🗣️ « Ne soutenez pas un noir juste parce qu'il est noir.
Le mec est un infiltré il va nous la mettre profond. »
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Nou kenbe pwomès nou…
Nou detwi kay Lanmò San Jou ak katye jeneral gang 400 Mawozo a.
Pifò ladan yo kouri ale san yo pa menm eseye goumen.
Ala lach yo lach! 🥲
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All night Vigil at St Nectarios Monastery in Aegina, Greece. teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/2VNEKRymQ…
Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
Митрополит Теодосије примио је данас у Манастиру Грачаница представнике Студентске листе, који бораве на Косову и Метохији како би се упознали са животом Срба.
Током посете обишли су и Високе Дечане, где су присуствовали Богослужењу, као и Призрен и српске православне светиње.
ALT 🌿 Митрополит Теодосије примио представнике Студентске листе у манастиру Грачаница🌿 Његово Високопреосвештенство Митрополит рашко-призренски г. Теодосије примио је у манастиру Грачаница представнике Студентске листе, који су посетили Косово и Метохију како би се непосредно упознали са животом нашег народа и изазовима са којима се суочавају Епархија рашко-призренска, свештенство и монаштво. Током разговора, Митрополит Теодосије упознао је госте са свакодневним бригама верног народа, посебно указујући на потребу очувања породичних домова, образовања деце, доступности здравствене заштите, безбедности и услова за достојанствен живот. Истакнуто је да су очување светиња и црквеног живота неодвојиви од опстанка нашег народа на овим просторима.
ALT Представници Студентске листе изразили су спремност да се, кроз будући рад и деловање у институцијама, посвете питањима заштите српског народа, његових права и православних светиња, уз сталну комуникацију са људима који живе на Косову и Метохији. У наставку посете, на празник Светог великомученика Димитрија, гости су посетили манастир Високи Дечани, где су присуствовали Светој Литургији и поклонили се моштима Светог краља Стефана Дечанског. Са игуманом манастира, архимандритом Савом, и дечанским братством разговарали су о заштити светиња, црквене имовине, монашких заједница и условима за живот српског народа. Посету су завршили обиласком Призрена, где су посетили храм Богородице Љевишке и друге православне светиње.
Im not a latinizer, but St. Augustine dont teach the Florentine Filioque at all, there is a good number of times where the precondition for the filioque are rejected by Augustine. However, i agree with the two others.
People often ask, "Where is a clear Orthodox condemnation of Augustine's theology before the 20th century?". Well we can look to the dogmatic Orthodox theologian Vikentios Damados (c. 1700-1754) who explicitly wrote that Augustine's teachings on predestination, original sin and the Filioque are heretical. First of all we must credit Fr Metallinos (may his memory be eternal) who, going over manuscripts from Damados in Mt Athos, introduced this knowledge to the public.
“I dare to say that Augustine’s opinion on predestination is not only false but heretical, may this great teacher forgive me. By that opinion he says God, by His good pleasure, chose some for salvation out of the condemned mass of humanity and left the rest in the condemnation into which they were born through the forefather’s transgression. For if what we have shown are dogmas of the Orthodox faith, founded in Divine Scripture, then Augustine’s opinion, which overturns them, is not orthodox but heretical. Yet Augustine was not a heretic on this account. He did not say those things in opposition to the Catholic Church; he thought this was the Church’s dogma, on which there had been no earlier question or open examination… I therefore call Augustine’s opinion on predestination heretical, not because the Church condemned it at a synod held to examine it, but because it is contrary to the Fathers, to the words of Divine Scripture and to the practice of the Catholic Church…”
Damados outlines what "some teachers" say regarding ancestral sin being a cause of reprobation, then after that he gives the correct view of the Church, which is that reprobation only follows from bad works, and that original sin cannot be a bad work since it is a consequence of nature (per St Athanasios Parios):
"Reprobation is ‘the contrary of predestination’, defined as the preparation of eternal punishment on account of man’s foreknown sins. According to some of the teachers, this takes place on the basis of foreknowledge of evil works, or at least of the ancestral sin. [However] the [correct] teaching of the Saints of the Eastern Church, and especially of the Orthodox theologians, is that predestination and reprobation take place after the foreknowledge of good or evil works."
Calvin's god is a god who authors evil:
"For if God moves and compels towards evil, He is always the cause of the evil, and man is outside the sin, since he cannot not sin, being forced by God."
Elsewhere, Damados considers Augustine to be responsible for the Filioque and has no issue with mentioning that "the theories of Augustine displease me" (Οὐκ ἀρέσκει μοι ἡ θεωρία αὐτὴ τοῦ Αὐγουστίνου).
- Vikentios Damados, Dogmatic Tomos
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Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
TEODOSIJE: IDU BOLJA VREMENA KADA ĆEMO BITI BOLJI, ALI I SLOBODNIJI
Danas Kosovska Mitrovica proslavlja hramovnu i gradsku slavu Svetog velikomučenika Dimitrija. Svetu liturgiju služio je mitropolit raško-prizrenski Teodosije.
"Daće Bog, idu bolja vremena kada ćemo biti i mi bolji, ali i slobodniji pa ćemo da ukrašavamo i naš hram i naš grad i da ubuduće vratimo litiju ulicama grada", rekao je danas ispred hrama mitropolit Teodosije. #Kosovo #Mitrovica
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“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”. Clearly, prayer in the church must be a prayer for the salvation of all mankind; such prayer is pleasing to God, for He desires the salvation of all. The dogmatic significance of these words is the following: they refute the false and joyless teaching of Calvinism, which preaches unconditional predestination for all mankind, regardless of free will. For why should the church pray for those who have been condemned eternally already? “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all”. This is said as proof that all mankind, without exception, is called to salvation, for the sake of the redemptive sacrifice of “the one Mediator Jesus Christ.”’
- Archbishop Averky, Commentary on 1 Timothy 2: 3-6
Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
Still trying to figure out what this means. Are you saying that unconditional predestination is allowed to be believed as private theologoumenon? It is quite clearly a heresy. @satisfyjustice
Council of Jerusalem:
"God foresaw some «καλῶς τῷ αὐτεξουσίῳ χρησομένους» (“who would use their free will well”), and others who would use it badly.
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But to say ... that God, in predestinating, or condemning, had in no wise regard to the works of those predestinated, or condemned, we know to be profane and impious."
Archbishop Eugenios Voulgaris:
"But we with God will refute the impious and abrupt doctrine in concerning divine grace, and establish free will both from sacred Scriptures and divinely inspired Fathers. Second, those around Aquinas Thomas supposing certain decrees from God predetermining free causes, supposed God securely knows in them from eternity how each in time will determine his will. But I think this opinion of Thomists approaches Calvinist necessity; for if He predetermined from eternity to determine will in time, no longer free and self-determining preserved; which is free will."
St Gregory Palamas:
"It is not that He foreordains and thus foreknows, but that He foreknows and thus foreordains, and not by His will but by His knowledge of what we shall freely will or choose."
St Athanasios Parios:
"The most wise and most orthodox Meletios, surnamed Syrigos, ... dissolved like a spider's web the heretical sophisms of the most godless Calvin.
... From his writings we too shall here take what is needful; for in no other shall we find more, or better, on the doctrine of predestination. ... To put it simply and briefly: in the things that are in our power, we confess divine foreknowledge, but predestination, with the divine Damascene, we deny. ... That the elect become elect not from elsewhere, but from within themselves. ... It must be shown against the evil-minded that they are elected not simply, nor without reason, but on account of their own virtue."
Varangivn ☦︎ retweeted
"People who have Herod's heart kill children who have done nothing wrong...
The Herods who kill children aren't just the Turks and the totalitarian states that impose their tyrannies by killing women and children and spreading ruin...Here in our own country, in our homeland, this horrible crime takes place. Unscrupulous doctors have opened gynecological clinics. Day and night they do nothing else but abortions, they cut apart children and throw their bodies into city sewers, bloodying the rivers, lakes, and seas. As a reward for their many killings, they make a lot of money—money that is like the thirty pieces of silver Judas received. These doctor's are today's Herods.
The responsibility for the crime that takes place, however, does not lie solely with the doctors. It's shared by the parents, and above all, by the women who seek out the clinics to murder their unborn children. Women who seek out the clinics to have abortions are worse than wild beasts, because wild beasts don't kill their young.
...The responsibility is enormous, for all of us. Only because of this sin we have become a sinful nation, and if don't all repent, men and women alike, the wrath of God will come upon us. And it is coming..."
—Metropolitan Augustinos Kantiotes
"Contemporary Herods"