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I'm not, but you want to look superior.

Then lay it on my like I'm real dumb cuz this seems to me to be your point.

Then your practice isn't very advanced if you still depend more...

I'm saying, you keep talking about three and rejecting the one... Don't try to turn it around, I am insisting on one. You are saying a hesychast should insist on three... but the only three are the transcendent non-experienced reality, the omnipresent love, and the physical form...

The Jesus prayer isn't actually necessary, but it helps overcoming mental distractions... Catharsis happens naturally, as you overcome your prior mindsets various things start to happen... Theoria is the experience itself, but doesn't necessarily rid you of ego. Theosis is the death of ego and...

It is actually humorous because you admitted early on you haven't actually practiced it... So you're just going by what you've read, and I am talking about the reality. It means you don't actually know what is critical... Yet, I have lived with this for 8+ years.

I have touched on catharsis, theoria, and theosis itself... I have talked about undoing the ego, I have talked about union with God. I have talked about the Jesus prayer, I have talked about the Spirit filling the heart... Seriously, what do you think I'm missing?

I have actually capitalized "critical" so people can laugh at you for saying something stupid, but you have decided not to... good call.

Show me one that says theosis revealed three gods.

I mean, from experience, theosis does not reveal any three... I can tell you what the three point at, but reality is one.

What CRITICAL thing have I missed?

I would say they show it is what is in the heart that matters to God, not which books you've learned that claim to be from him. Again, I say it is one of the best aspects of Orthodoxy that every writer is considered fallible, otherwise it would be blasphemy to say this. I do, however, think...

I mean the Orthodox saints not anything I've said... Also, it is James and John who are rebuked for how they respond about the Samaritans in that verse... yet you use it against me... odd choice. They want to do something quite evil, but he corrects them... and these are the apostles. I think...

I consider myself one, but through all these perspectives about the faith not blindly... I think the message conveyed in the NT is true, but I am open to interpretations about how it came about historically because they do not affect my faith. I am replying authentically... if they clearly do...

What is funny is I love his signature quote... yes, this is a faithful life... beautiful. Yet, he has decided to judge rather than practice it. Certainly, walking around obsessing over all this is wrong... it will not help at all... but what it can accomplish is a steadfastness because the...

I wasn't trying to be rude, what I said was quite matter of fact... I did edit after you hit reply to make this more clear, but the fact remains he is not contributing anything at all... he just posted to insult me and left.

Tell me, what do you suppose a demon is? I guess it seems to you like a great way to win an argument, but all you basically did is project your fear onto me. You might as well say you don't want to consider what I am suggesting because reasoning is hard for you... which would at least be...

You're really gonna keep making me repeat myself instead of actually reading what I say? I suppose you're looking for "grace" as an answer. We are receptive to grace, however, by silencing the mind... which renders all mental divisions moot, they are necessarily projections used to explain...

I mean, it sorta is what the Bible says about God though... I mean, we add the activities of Jesus and Spirit into the mix and pretend there are three now, but the point is God does everything and is all that exists...

This perspective is actually erroneous... Isaiah 44:28 refers to Cyrus as the Messiah and seems to be the catalyst for accepting Zoroastrian notions... Isaiah 45:1 is even more explicit because he is called the anointed one... which is the translation of Messiah or Christ. Certainly, we are...