by EPHREM HUGH BENSUSAN [Thanks Ephrem ! underlines are mine.– RAS] [source] In the current debate over the Orthodox view of Original Sin, one popular entry is Ancestral Versus Original Sin: An Overview with Implications for Psychotherapy by the Very Rev. Fr. Antony Hughes, rector of St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The […]
Hell
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Rev 20:14-15) The sentimental secularism of modern Western culture, with its exalted optimism about human nature, […]
On Works
by J.I. Packer GOOD WORKS ARE AN EXPRESSION OF FAITH You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone (James 2:24) In the New Testament, faith (believing trust, or trustful belief, based on testimony received as from God) is crucially important, for it is the means or instrumental […]
Chrysostom on Homosexuality
John Chrysostom (Homily 4 on Romans) Romans 1:26-27 NET For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, (27) and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with […]