Thursday, April 30, 2015

WE CAN NOT BE SAVED,JUST BY SAYING-I BELIEVE IN JESUS

The devils believe also, Are they Saved? NO! - Did they receive Eternal Life from Jesus? NO! There is no such thing as once saved always saved, Heb 12:14 Without Holiness no man {one} shall see God, Rom 6:1 Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound, NO!. After one receives Eternal life If he chooses to go back to his old life style of sin Luke 9:62  no man {one} putting his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God, Luke 4:4 Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God - NOT SOME!!! 2 Tim 4:3 For the time will come when they not endure sound doctrine ORTHODOX WAY?

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Our choise is our own destiny

Anyone can first consider and weigh things easily get the decision and argued on the side of good. Changing the will and preferences aligned in all its operations increasingly with Class I, which is the ever more evident that ever be completed. But in the other world, the soul of man has no other than the same of himself and is the creator of its own world, so as it happens in dreams.
And in such a world can not be no other way, other than that the soul itself built on imagination, the desires and will.

το κακό το οπουδήποτε κακό, είναι κέντρισμα για ανοδο και δημιουργία.προκαλει με τιν πτώση του και σε kalει για το χεπερασμα τοu

Είτε θλίψη ή χαρά, όλα όσα συμβαίνουν εξυπηρετούν τον άνθρωπο να αυξήσει κάθε φορά την ψυχή του στο Θεό. Όλα είναι μια υπενθύμιση της ύπαρξής της, μια έλξη και μια καθοδήγηση στο σωστό μονοπάτι και είναι πάντα μια αξέχαστη ευχαριστία

Orthodox Christianity


Scope: There were various disagreements that led to the establishment of
Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The Eastern Orthodox churches are led
by patriarchs, and they emphasize the "Johannine school" of Scriptural
writings and theology. This school emphasizes the role of Jesus as
ruler of the cosmos, incarnational thought, and the centrality of the
Holy Spirit. The Eastern Church, which was founded in Constantinople
in the fourth century, broke formally with Rome in 1040. The breach
was a result of disagreements over icon veneration, the papal primacy,
and whether or not the Holy Spirit emanates from both the Father and
the Son. The discussion then turns to monasticism and its importance
to Eastern Orthodoxy.
Outline
I. Characteristics of Orthodox Christianity today:
A. It predominates in the East.
B. It is led by patriarchs—there are four ancient and five modem
patriarchates.
C. Orthodox Christians number 45 million worldwide and 3 million in the
United States. Overall, the Orthodox constitute some five percent of
the world's Christians.
II. New Testament sources of orthodoxy—the "Johannine school."
A. The "Johannine school" consists of the New Testament documents
attributed to St. John—the Fourth Gospel, the three Johannine epistles,
and the Apocalypse.
B. The main themes of the Johannine documents:
1. They emphasize Jesus' status as the preexistent ruler of the
cosmos. The beginning of Fourth Gospel states that Jesus is the
divine logos (the cosmic creative principle or blueprint).
2. They emphasize incarnational thought.
a. John 1: 14—"and the word was made flesh."
b. The significance of the Incarnation underlies the worship of
icons in Eastern Orthodoxy.
c. During the "Iconoclastic controversy" of the eighth and ninth
centuries, the Western church condemned veneration of icons as
idol-worship, while the Orthodox responded that such veneration
was a worshipful response to the Incarnation.
3. They stress the significance of the Holy Spirit:
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a. After the logos reascends to the Father, the helper or counselor
(Paraclete) will descend to keep alive the significance of the
logos until the Parousia.
b. The Holy Spirit plays far bigger role in Eastern than in .1!
Western Christianity.
III. History of the Eastern Church.
A. The Eastern Church has its origin in the founding of Constantinople in 330
as the new imperial capital—Rome was seen as too connected with
paganism.
1. Constantinople hosted a series of ecumenical councils between
the third and the eighth centuries.
a. The Fifth Council condemned the view that Jesus
existed as an individual separate from the incarnate
logos.
b. The Sixth Council condemned monothelitism (the view
that Jesus had just one will) and declared that Jesus had
both a divine and a human will
c. The Seventh Council formally approved the continued
veneration of icons.
B. The formal breach between Orthodoxy and Rome in 1040 resulted from
disagreements over:
1. Icon veneration.
2. The papal primacy—the Orthodox regard the pope as merely .famong
equals."
3. The Filioque (filius + que, or "and from the Son").
a. Western church added this phrase to the Creed between the
sixth and tenth centuries to support the doctrine of the
"Double Procession of the Holy Spirit"—i.e., the Holy Spirit
emanates from both the Father and the Son.
b. The Eastern church rejected the Filioque as inconsistent with
monotheism; it insisted that each divine Person emerges from
the unified being of the deity—i.e., from the Homoousion.

The leaders of the Protestant Reformation

The leaders of the Protestant Reformation, most notably Martin Luther
and John Calvin, emphasized the importance of individual faith over
good works in salvation. Puritanism, as developed in England and
carried to America, never became an established church and looked to
America as the opportunity for a rebirth. In America there have been
cyclical waves of revivalism, among them the First Great Awakening in
the early 1700s and the Second Awakening at the turn of the eighteenth
century. The reform tradition emphasizes the salvation or damnation of
individual Christians.Luther was an Augustinian monk who worried about the absence
of Biblical justification for certain church institutions and
practices.
2. He is the archetypical founder of a sect—he worried that the
Catholic Church had become too routine and normalized; he
sought to restore the necessary personal encounter between the
individual and God.
3. Key tenets of Lutheranism:
a. Justification by faith alone rather than by the "works" of the
Catholic Church. Salvation results not from a lifelong process
but from an immediate, personal experience of God.
b. One cannot overstate either God's majesty or man's depravity;
selfishness motivates all human actions; all humans are
worthless in themselves and deserve hell.
c. Man's obligation in the divine covenant is to discover and
pursue his calling. One should behave uprightly not to win
salvation but to demonstrate election. Lutheranism contains
conflicting impulses for and against political action.
d. The priesthood of all believers—every individual faces God
alone and can interpret the Bible for himself. This view
encourages anti-intellectualism.

B. John Calvin (1509-64)
1. Calvin emphasizes the importance of the Old Testament as
testimony about God's salvation of the elect. This view
contributes to the perception of reformed Christians are the new
Israel and of America is the new Pr1o{m7ised Land.
2. "Double predestination" of both the saved and the damned.
Evidence of election includes membership in a reformed church,
an upright life, and especially a demonstrable personal experience
of divine regeneration—i.e., being "born again."
3. Calvinist Geneva was run on theocratic grounds.
II. Puritanism
A. Puritanism represents the extension of the Lutheran and Calvinist
`reform tradition to England and Scotland." It was an effort to purify the
church of non-Biblical accretions.
B. As developed in England and carried to America, Puritanism never
became an established church, remained a persecuted minority, and
emphasized anti-Catholicism.
C. Puritans in America believed that: .1.
1. God had literally abandoned England for America.
2. The completion of God's work in New England reflects a
providential design, contained in the Old Testament. a
a. They saw the Atlantic Ocean as an allegory of the Red Sea;
Queen Elizabeth as the new pharaoh; England as the new
Egypt.
b. They believed that the discovery of America in late fifteenth
century (on the eve of Protestant Reformation) and its
colonization by northern European Protestants reflected a
divine plan.
III. Cyclical waves of revivalism in America
A. The (First) Great Awakening (1730s-40s):
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1. Responded to a growing sense that American religious life had
become corrupt and complacent. It represented an effort to recover
emotionalism as an authentic response to God.
2. Methodist reformers John Wesley and George Whitfield were
more popular in America than in England
3. The revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards is especially known for
his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."