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I do not believe that such a thing exists in the works of St. Anthony, not until I personally read the book myself. And I doubt that he speaks about "aerial toll houses". Saying that St. Anthony or St. John Chrysostom or anyone similar to them, saying that they spoke about so called literal "aerial toll houses" is just a misunderstood twisted representation of what they were originally trying say.
I said they're misunderstood not discouraging from understanding them. I said if such a thing exists as "aerial toll houses" then there's no hope of salvation and only a small group of people can be saved. If it does "exist", than the majority of people should let go of all hope being saved, because not all people can become saints, not all can eliminate their passions and becomes passionless in order to be saved. Because it'd be better to live a, how should say this, "unholy" life here on earth (like people nowadays live) knowing that you won't be saved, because it's not wroth to live a life falsely hoping that you'll be saved and then know you'll be dragged into hell by some demons just because you couldn't pass one aerial toll house. Those that believe that the "aerial toll houses" to be real should leave all hope of salvation (unless they have the potential to become a saint), because hope is the first step on the road to disappointment for them.
Idk who's Fr. Thomas Hopko, but as a person who studies philosophy, the majority people whom I know, never agree on this subject, sure there are exclusions, but people just do not believe in it, never will I too, because there was never such a thing called "aerial toll houses" spoken by the people on the grounds. It's become so popular in this recent decade or maybe even more idk how much, it's poisoning the church and the people.
for one, for the umpteenth time, the toll houses are not to be taken literally. only those who deny the toll houses insist on a literalist view. and the toll houses are there even though those Fathers don't use that actual phrase.
for your second point, you really don't understand the toll houses and you really did not read this thread before commenting.
for your third point, Fr Hopko was an academic who studied philosophy and theology. that was me pointing out that when you said that we needed someone who studied both. well, Fr Tom is one of many (and I could speak to more).
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