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@archisoteric maximise their glorification? your first photo shows that those who aren't baptised through "involuntary circumstances" will be "neither glorified nor punished"

The footnote also states that “sins due to external tyranny [not by free will] do not involve guilt.” This does not mean we treat baptism lightly. In fact, even if they are infants & not conscious of the event, they still need the sacrament to maximize their glorification.

Noted modernist St. Gregory Nazianzen, like St. Gregory of Nyssa, does not teach that unbaptized infants are punished. In fact, there is a huge difference between them & those who refuse, are ignorant or are too lazy to do it. Oration XL on Baptism Par. XIII & XXVIII

It’s amusing how often the loudest critics of “feminised Christianity” & champions of masculinity collapse into sentimentalism the moment Divine Justice issues immutable decrees & dares to punish sin.

“And the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”

@HagiosGregorio truth nuke

(1/6) St. Augustine, in The Good of Marriage, states: "When conjugal intercourse takes place for the purpose of procreation, it is without fault; but when it takes place to satisfy concupiscence, though with one’s spouse and within conjugal fidelity, it involves a venial fault".

@TheHillofSlane Debate has moved on from the "no priests or bishops teach this" and "its just neophyte children" ur side is now saying its just Russian Latinisers and those on the fringe ur a bit behind bud

This PSA trash is not Orthodox. Not taught by Priests or Bishops. It is the product of a discord channel of Protestant minded children larping as Orthodox. They have no blessing to teach. They have been corrected and care not. You know... Protestants.

Whoever set the date of my economics exam to Bright Monday is truly evil

What??? 😭 I thought he was chill. No infallible bible???

@IHaveAyytism Def isn't. Had someone telling me I'm taking this out of context (no context provided)

Still won’t be good enough for them unfortunately

@ruckusofantioch @Alex_Ortodoxie There's no way this is just an honest mistake 😭

@Alex_Ortodoxie plz show the whole section next time plz and ty 📸🫩

Reminder that the Orthodox position of our Fathers is that the Latin Fathers did not teach the Bekkinite position.

St Augustine's Enchiridion is literally perfect. Need to get a copy to carry around with me everywhere as a handbook.

@blessedmikko @HosannaHosannaa Did these guys really think this was a good argument 😭

A new “refutation” of the Orthodox Catholic teaching of original sin, which finds its origin in Idol Worshipper has, for some reason or another, crept its way into pop-Orthodoxy through the person of Alex Sorin as of late. The argument is essentially that, if original sin teaches that Man is made depraved, corrupt, guilty & “morally unable” through Adam’s sin, and that if Scripture as well as the 4th EC teach that Christ was made like us in every respect, if Christ shares our human nature, then He either has to be depraved which causes a sinful Christ, or is sinless by virtue of His being a pre-Fall man & did not truly become as we were. This is then further bolstered, as is known, with a perversion of St. Gregory Nazianzus’ infamous affirmation in his anti-Apollonarian letters: ‘For that which He has not assumed He has not healed.’ –St. Gregory (Nazianzus), Letter 101 Without even addressing the context of Nazianzus’ statement—this being merely that Christ needed to assume full human nature (body, soul & mind) in the face of those who denied Christ the latter two—it can be demonstrated that he evidently believed Christ assumed pre-lapsarian human nature: ‘He is one God out of both, since the human is mixed with the Godhead, and, because of the Godhead, exists as Lord and Christ. This was the second mixture, since the first one had been contemned. First I received a share in the divine breath, then later Christ took on both my soul and all my members, that earlier, free Adam, who was naked of sin, before he had seen the serpent, and had tasted of the fruit and of death, who nourished his spirit upon simple heavenly ideas, as a radiant mystic of God and divine things.’ –St. Gregory (Nazianzus), In Praise of Virginity, Lines 155-61 Pope St. Leo’s Tome, accepted by the very council the argument builds its foundation off of furthermore, acknowledges that Christ, while truly consubstantial with Man, assumes all of human nature without the guilt through original sin: ‘From the Mother of the Lord He assumed our nature, not our guilt (Assumpta est de Matre Domini, natura, non culpa); for although His birth is wondrous, His nature is not unlike ours.’ –The Tome, §4 This is sufficient to demonstrate the authoritative understanding of scriptural verses (such as Heb. 2:15-16) in the face of those who attempting to hide their novel pet theories behind the banner of “historic Christianity”.

What you’ll notice from the “Anti-PSA” “Anti-Original Sin” crowd there’s never citations from the holy fathers or even citations of the supposed confession they’re attacking. It’s only ad homs, shifting goal post, or appeal to majority of online influencers lol

@RedBlue1681 "I'm looking for a girl"

I yearn for a wife

Sending in a St Prosper nuke…

Insane coal

@EphraimICXC he's so real for this

What did St. Gregory of Nyssa mean by this

Fr. George Maksimov on the Orthodox position on the fate of unbaptised infants in response to a non-Christian: Q: Are unbaptised infants not saved? If so, I think that’s an entailment that destroys Christianity. A: ‘There was a council of Carthage (418) which said exactly that without baptism, even infant(s) cannot be in the Kingdom of Heaven. So, this is (the) decision. And, in this decision it was made....1,600 years ago. So this was (the) belief of (the) Church for more than 1,600 years already. And for all this time, this did not destroy Christianity—opposite—during this time in fact, Christianity won the world. So, history (is) against your idea.’ –‘Is there salvation outside the Church?’

@blessedmikko Love Fr George and what he's doing for the Exarchate here in Africa. Wondering if the certainty of some to say that infants are in the kingdom is just an anglosphere thing?