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Fr. Seraphim Rose explains it well in Genesis, Creation and Early Man.

Only when some round-earther calls me a conspiracy-theorist. Just kidding! I'm not a flat-earther. Actually, I follow mostly this forum (TAW), but I do sometimes watch other forums, and sometimes I do see nutty things there. But I like an intellectual challenge, sometimes.

Correction. The last link should be Mark 9:43-48.

Here is an excellent article countering Protestant misconceptions of the Church's history of icons. Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5.

To our dear departed friend, JM; in case he's watching from above. (I assume he lives at a higher elevation, as befits his "lofty" theology.) I have these pieces of advice: 1- Dump the traditions of men (Col 2:8)-- specifically, John Calvin. He, like all the reformers, was reacting to the...

True enough. But as I mentioned in my reply, the passage can have multiple meanings. If I may rephrase Christ's complete response, to make the meanings clearer, it would go something like this: "Give ALL profane things unto Caesar, and ALL sacred things unto God; but let me place special...

6/6 When the Protestants appeared, they did the following: (1) They accepted the RC permanent "Heaven". (2) They accepted the RC permanent "Hell". This is why the KJV translates every afterlife term by "Hell". (3) They rejected "Purgatory". They also rejected prayers for the dead, which they...

5/6 At present, those who die baptised and at least in repentance go to Paradise. Everyone else goes to Sheol/Hades. But the church fathers made a distinction between (a) those who died unrepentent and with serious sins, and (b) those who repented at the last moment but had no time to do good...

4/6 With Christ's death and resurrection, several things changed. Upon His death, His soul, like everyone else's, was taken by the Devil to Sheol/Hades. But both His body and His soul are united to His divinity. So in Sheol, He revealed His divinity, took the Devil captive, and preached to...

3/6 In the NT, which was written in Greek, "Sheol" was replaced by its Greek equivalent, "Hades". "Hades" is translated in the KJV as: "grave" 1 time. (link ). "hell" 10 times. (link ). Concerning Christ's parables; a parable is simply a story, real or fictional, that compares one thing...

2/6 Some of Sheol's characteristics: Its is not the same as destruction or annihilation. There is a perfectly good Hebrew word for these ideas-- Abbadon. It appears 6 times in the OT and 1 time in the NT. (ot link ) (nt link ). "Sheol" appears in lists together with "Abbadon" 3 times in the...

1/6 This is in response to the OP in the previous forum, about the place of hell, and some issues brought up by Almost There in this forum. In the OT, the place of the dead was called "Sheol". Some pagan cultures had similar beliefs about the "land of the dead". In Graeco-Roman culture it was...

I'm sure glad my mom put stainless steel name-tags on all my underwear.

4/4 As for praying in front of, crossing ourselves in front of, venerating and kissing icons. Since the distinction between icons and idols stands, we follow the OT use of icons. In Exodus 25, we read about the Ark of the Covenant, which had icons of cherubim (Exod 25:18), and the mercy seat in...

3/4 Now, you'll probably say that this was in Christ's time, that later the Temple was destroyed and there were no more sacred images. But much of the NT was written after the destruction of the Temple, and nowhere in it do the Apostles write that, now there are no sacred images, all images are...

2/4 First of all, nowhere in the NT is it explicitly stated that, now there is no distinction and all images are evil. What else is said about images in the NT? Here we come once again to the passage about Christ's response to taxes (Mt 22:15 -22 ; Mk 12: 13 - 17; and Lu 20: 20 - 26.), which I...

1/4 Your accusation of eisegesis, whether it refers to St. John or to me, is wrong. St. John's explanation, and by extension mine, is not eisegesis (greek for " to add in meaning"). It is exegesis, (greek for "to extract the meaning"). The meaning is clear from the grammar, and from comparison...

Thanks. I finally won something.

I was busy;)

jckstraw72, I know my post comes too late for your paper, but I see several terms in these posts, and I just wanted to make a clarification. We must distinguish between four different but related words; Logos, Logoi, Logiki, and Logismoi. Logos, refers to the divine hypostasis of God the...