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Post by: Stephanos II on January 12, 2009, 01:13:23 AM

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the Churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises -- but you have the apostolic faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the faith? The true faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in this struggle -- the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the faith? "True, the premises are good when the apostolic faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ... "You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the faith which has come down to you from apostolic tradition, and if an execrable jealously has tried to shake it in a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. "No one, ever, will prevail against your faith, beloved brothers, and we believe that God will give us our Churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church but in reality they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. "Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ. (Coll. Selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum. Caillu and Guillou, Vol. 32, pp 411-412)."

A true upholder of tradition

St Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, suffered many persecutions and injustices because he refused to tolerate Arianism, the reigning heresy of the 4th Century which denied the divinity of Christ. He died in 373 A.D., and his feast day is kept on the 2nd of May, the anniversary of his death.

St Athanasius was one of the very few bishops in the world who, during the Arian heresy, openly defended the Catholic teaching. He suffered slander, exile and even unjustified excommunication for his almost lone stand in defence of the Faith.

It was a time when the Faith was more upheld by the laity who remained true to their baptism than by the vast majority of the episcopate who failed to remain faithful to their divine commission. Only when we realise this stupendous fact can the full extent of the heroism of St. Athanasius be appreciated (together with a few other heroic bishops such as St. Hilary, who supported him faithfully).

Cardinal Newman cites numerous Patristic testimonies to the abysmal state of the Church at that time. In Appendix V to the third edition of his "Arians of the Fourth Century", we read:

A. D. 360. St. Gregory nαzιanzen says, about this date: "Surely the pastors have done foolishly; for, excepting a very few, who either on account of their insignificance were passed over, or who by reason of their virtue resisted, and who were to be left as a seed and root for the springing up again and revival of Israel by the influence of the Spirit, all temporised, only differing from each other in this, that some succuмbed earlier, and others later; some were foremost champions and leaders in the impiety, and others joined the second rank of the battle, being overcome by fear, or by interest, or by flattery, or, what was the most excusable, by their own ignorance." (Orat. xxi. 24).

St. Basil says, about the year 372: "Religious people keep silence, but every blaspheming tongue is let loose. Sacred things are profaned; those of the laity who are sound in faith avoid the places of worship as schools of impiety, and raise their hands in solitude, with groans and tears to the Lord in heaven." Ep. 92. Four years after he writes: "Matters have come to this pass: the people have left their houses of prayer, and assemble in deserts, - a pitiable sight; women and children, old men, and men otherwise infirm, wretchedly faring in the open air, amid most profuse rains and snow-storms and winds and frosts of winter; and again in summer under a scorching sun. To this they submit, because they will have no part in the wicked Arian leaven." Ep. 242. Again: "Only one offence is now vigorously punished, - an accurate observance of our fathers' traditions. For this cause the pious are driven from their countries, and transported into deserts." Ep. 243.

WE CAN SEE A PARALLEL IN WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CHURCH OF TODAY:

What happened over 1600 years ago is repeating itself today, but with two or three differences: Alexandria is the whole Universal Church, the stability of which is being shaken, and what was undertaken at that time by means of physical force and cruelty is now being transferred to a different level. Exile is replaced by banishment into the silence of being ignored; killing, by assassination of character.

(Mgr. Rudolf Graber, Bishop of Regensburg,
Athanasius and the Church of Our Times, p. 23)

Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 12, 2009, 01:40:40 AM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 12, 2009, 01:41:01 PM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 13, 2009, 12:09:54 AM
Too many people anymore, on purpose, confuse whether or not a church or a teaching or a profession of faith is Catholic or Orthodox, with whether or not it is a pedigreed OFFICIAL church. Jesus Christ doesn't care how many OFFICIAL degrees you claim, if you lie against Him, you are none of His. It does not matter how many Popes, Patriarchs etc. ad nauseam you have with you (or you are with them) on your broad way to hell. Since the mania of Vatican II Ecuмenism the biggest single coverup of apostasy is the claim to OFFICIAL church approval.

St. Athanasius contra-mundum was beset by practically the whole OFFICIAL church. They were Arian heretics. St. Athanasius was right and the OFFICIAL church was wrong. As C.S. Lewis said "The glory of St. Athanasius is that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that he now remains when those times, like all others, have passed away."

We are warned of the "operation of error", literally the "energian planes" or energy of delusion. Diabolic delusion is meant. That is made abundantly clear in the Church Fathers. In the ancient pagan world that was always part of idolatry and polytheism.

2Thes:2:
9  Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders:
10 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11  Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:
12  That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.

 
During the time of Photius and the dating of all subsequent Orthodox Church theology, at about the same time as Photius, from the 'victory' of the "theology of the icon", the actual theology of that so-called church has disintegrated into complete paganism. Photius' teaching on Christ is simply an old heresy trying to divide Christ into two persons. The teaching on the hypostasis of the icon is nothing other than sophist idolatry. The teaching on created energy divinising men is nothing other than polytheism. The idea, present in the Orthodox and the Oriental Churches, that the gods and goddesses of Egypt and Greece are types of the true God and His revelation of Himself is a lie from Satan and complete apostasy from the true God. It was the Orthodox Church that originally proposed Ecuмenism in the last few centuries, despite a few in their ranks claiming it was the Protestants. The Orthodox Church has been the leader of Ecuмenism including Demetrios I and his nonsense, on the island of Patmos of all places, provoking the Antipope and Chief Roman Rabbinic Sophist John Paul II to the kind of nonsense that later with Bartholomew I, John Paul II perpetrated at Assisi. It is the Ecuмenical Orthodox Church that claims the ecological Patriarch Bartholomew I (Gaia mother goddess of earth is the patroness of the ecologists). It was the Antipope John Paul II and the Heresiarch Bartholomew I that assembled in Assisi with about forty other Patriarchs and Metropolitans etc. of the Eastern 'Church' on January 24, 2002 for the totally apostate synchretist prayer meeting with leaders of every imaginable form of paganism including voodoo witchdoctors. It was Bartholomew I, Ecuмenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who dared to call the apostasy of the Assisi offence against God, "blessed are the peacemakers". It is the Ecuмenical Orthodox 'Church' that is is the self willed source of the energy of diabolic delusion that is marking men with the image of the beast.

Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 13, 2009, 12:40:42 AM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Classiccom on January 13, 2009, 08:23:44 AM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 13, 2009, 10:19:47 AM
Classicom,

'shot down by "friendly" fire'

In that list, be sure to include Pope St. Pius X. Even though the Devil raised up Antipope John Paul the Apostate against the memory of Pope St. Pius X, St. Pius died in sanctity, while John Paul Diabolus died in Satanic agony.

Coughlin got wrapped up in supporting something he shouldn't have and Sheen was an ecuмenist. Feeney is the man of that hour for the faithful.

The Truth from a priest from his own writings

http://thetruthfromapriestfromhi.blogspot.com/

On JP the double horn Rabbi the Apostate see:

SEVEN BOWL JUDGEMENTS

http://marknamenumber.blogspot.com/2008/07/seven-bowl-judgements-1-and-i-heard.html
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 13, 2009, 09:30:23 PM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 14, 2009, 01:31:31 AM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Classiccom on January 14, 2009, 09:00:21 AM
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I had been handing out fliers for some time now. Also, sending TONS of traditional Catholic information across the internet through my own form of mass mailing...about 60 emails and hour. These are often sent to variuos new order churches and the like. I plant the seeds of faith and hope that some will take root...
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   Good job Uriel & Stephanos II.  :rahrah:


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BY WATER AND BLOOD ARE WE DELIVERED
1Jn:5:6¶ This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth that Christ is the truth.

  If we ever put together a Cathinfo tract, consider this:

  They have put up Evacuation signs in the city to mark the major exit routes. Perhaps we should post the evacuation route that leaves the kingdom of darkness?



  I baptize thee in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Act of Contrition



  ... ok, you guys , take it from here.
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 14, 2009, 03:45:18 PM
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Post by: Stephanos II on January 14, 2009, 10:12:24 PM
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Post by: Stephanos II on January 14, 2009, 10:28:20 PM
This is the Eastern version of the False Virgin. Vatican II brought the Western version shown above and the Eastern version together, so that they have pure distilled evil false apparitions and pure distilled evil false theology to delude the world, and Christians in particular, with.


Sophian Heresy

http://ecuмenizm.tripod.com/EcuмENIZM/id17.html


EcuмENISM -- A PATH TO PERDITION

 
THE SOPHIAN HERESY AND ATTEMPTS TO FEMINIZE GOD

 
"Sophia" translated from the Greek means "Divine Wisdom". As used in the Bible this term designates a general attribute of Divinity, His all-wise authority, as well as His superior reason.



The terms personifying Wisdom, commonly used in the Old Testament, particularly in the passages which are akin to the New Testament, and the revelation of Christ, were unanimously perceived by the Fathers as the Hypostasis of the Son of God. For instance, such is the general Church understanding of words about the Wisdom contained in the Book of Proverbs (9,1-9).



The Acts of the First, the Third, the Sixth and the Seventh Ecuмenical Councils testify to the fact that the entire Orthodox Church applied the term Divine Wisdom to the Second Divine Hypostasis. Thus, the First Ecuмenical Council spoke of the inscrutable Wisdom, "Which created everything that was created", -- of the uncreated, unoriginate Wisdom, Wisdom without beginning i.e. of Christ, because Christ is God's Power and God's Wisdom (1 Cor. 1,24) [140].



In the Acts of the Seventh Ecuмenical Council we read: "Our Lord Jesus Christ, our true God, the self-existent Wisdom of God the Father, Who manifested Himself in the flesh, and by His great and divine dispensation (lit., economy) freed us from the snares of idolatry, clothing Himself in our nature, restored it through the cooperation of the Spirit, Who shares His mind..." [141]



"From the most ancient times and onwards many Orthodox countries have been consecrating churches to the Lord Jesus Christ as the Wisdom of God". This fact also confirms that the words "Wisdom of God" refers to the Second Divine Hypostasis [142].



Archpriest Michael Pomazansky notes the fact that generally ancient Christian temples were not infrequently given the names of Christian concepts. Thus, in Chalcedon there was a church of St. Irene -- "not of the martyr Irene, but of Irene, the peace of Christ", as is explained in Chet'yi Mineyi (The Lives of Saints in the order of their commemoration days) for January 27. "In Constantinople St. Gregory the Theologian has uttered the famous words concerning the Holy Trinity in the temple of Anastasia -- not the martyr Anastasia, but Anastasia, the Resurrection of Christ. Such also is the temple of Paraskeva -- not the martyr Paraskeva, but Paraskeva-Friday, the day of our Savior's suffering and of His descent into hell (very frequently depicted in ancient icons)".



"Therefore", says Archpriest M. Pomazansky, "the sophiologists reference to the Church tradition in the East in the preservation of the idea of Sophia which expressed itself in the building of temples of St. Sophia and in the icon-painting suffers from being extremely strained" (Archpriest Michael Pomazansky "O zhizni, o vere, o Tserkvi" /On Life, Faith and Church/, a collection of articles, Second issue, Jordanville, 1976, p. 136).



The teaching of the Fathers of the Church about Jesus Christ as the Wisdom of God and this name of the Second Divine Hypostasis was perceived "as a clear and indisputable truth by the entire universal Church" [143].



However, the pseudo-wisdom of this world chose to see a special, spiritual personal being in the Old Testament term of "Sophia".



Vladimir Soloviev's (1853 - 1900) writings have in many ways contributed to dissemination of the Sophian mythology in Russia. This brilliant thinker exercised an enormous influence upon Russian religious philosophy and theological thinking. His impact is great even today.



The concept of Sophia occupies an exceptional place in Soloviev's writings [144] where it underwent all kinds of metamorphoses. He would associate it with Christ, with the "soul of the world" (World Soul), with "ideal and eternal universal humanity", with the Mother of God, with the "guardian Angel of the world" [145]. (Soloviev's) Sophia acquired also a completely different spiritually questionable aspect -- that of Eternal Femininity (Die ewige Weiblichkeit) which arose on the basis of Romanticism, rabbinic cabbala and stormy gnostic fantasy.



This feminine aspect of Sophia had a special personal meaning for Soloviev. It was a kind of mystical experience of love which accompanied him all his life. "Sophia" inspired not only his poetry but his entire philosophic creativity. For Soloviev the philosopher she was not so much a speculative, as a mystically-real phenomenon (no matter how paradoxical it may sound). Soloviev (as also later Fr. S. Bulgakov) had a visual perception of Sophia and he described his mystical encounters with her image in his innermost lyrical poems which subsequently inspired the whole generation of Russian symbolists (A. Blok and A. Bely, in particular).



We would not speak of this obvious spiritual delusion and somewhat sinister metaphysical "romance" of Soloviev with "Sophia" had they not persisted in the teaching of two famous theological thinkers of the 20th c. -- priests Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov who today have many followers in Russia and in many other countries.



These direct disciples and followers of Vladimir Soloviev have absorbed not only the gnostic-pantheistic ambiguity of their teacher, but all his "turbidity of erotic delusion" (archpriest Georgii Florovsky) as well. In their intellectual reflection on the Eternal Feminine, on Sophia, Florensky and Bulgakov have left Soloviev far behind by creating even more blasphemous images of her. If, according to G. Florovsky, their teacher attempted to create an "ecclesiastic synthesis out of an unecclesiastic experience" (35), these two preachers of Sophianism were invested with clerical rank.



Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev speaks of the Sophian doctrine of Florensky and Bulgakov as a "truly heretical teaching with a gnostic and pagan world view", leading to "dogmatic chaos" [146].



With regard to Fr. S. Bulgakov's theology, this Archbishop writes that "it is not only an abnormal development of theological thought, but also the most serious sin. According to the Fathers, the gravest sin is the sin against the Orthodox faith because it is not rooted in excusable weaknesses of human nature, but is a sin of our spiritual nature depriving us of the grace of the Holy Spirit" [147]. Being a heresy, the Sophian teaching, says Archbishop Seraphim, "may endanger the very existence of the Orthodox Church on earth, if it is not decisively refuted and condemned by the Highest Church Authorities [148].



Lately in Russia the Sophianist ideas of priest Pavel Florensky and of Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov have been increasingly disseminated. For many the question of Sophia remains still not quite clear.



For this reason it is extremely important to know that Sophianism was twice condemned by conciliar decision, as evidenced by two docuмents:


1) A decree of Moscow Patriarchate dated 24 August, 1935, No.93.



In this docuмent the following is said: "By our decision of 24 August, 1935, No.93 it was determined:



i) The teaching of Professor and Archpriest S.N. Bulgakov -- which, by its peculiar and arbitrary (Sophian) interpretation, often distorts the dogmas of the Orthodox faith, which in some of its points directly repeats false teachings already condemned by conciliar decisions of the Church, and the possible deductions resulting from which could even prove dangerous to spiritual life -- this teaching is to be recognized as alien to the Holy Orthodox Church of Christ, and all its faithful servants and children are to be cautioned against an acceptance of this teaching.



ii) Those Orthodox Reverend Archpastors, clergy and laity who have indiscreetly embraced Bulgakov's teaching and who have promoted it in their preaching and works, either written or printed, are to be called upon to correct the errors committed and to be steadfastly faithful to "sound teaching".



2) A Decision of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad of the 17/30 October 1935 concerning the new teaching of Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov on Sophia, the Wisdom of God.



The first three points of this Decision state:



"i) To recognize the teaching of Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov on Sophia the Wisdom of God as heretical.



ii) To inform Metropolitan Yevlogy of this Decision of the Council and to request that he admonish Archpriest Bulgakov with the intention of prompting him to publicly renounce his heretical teaching concerning Sophia and to make a report about the consequences of such admonition to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.



iii) In the event that Archpriest Bulgakov does not repent, the present Decision of the Council which condemns the heresy of Sophianism is to be made known to all Autocephalous Churches."

 

Among the works refuting the heresy of Sophianism one must first of all mention the works of St. John (Maximovitch) [149] and Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev's) book "A New Teaching concerning Sophia the Wisdom of God", Sofia, 1935. This is "the most significant critical work of Archbishop Seraphim on Sophiology in the 20-th century, -- with regard to both its volume (525 pages) and its content (Theological Works, 27, M., p. 61).



Apart from this book the ever-memorable Archbishop Seraphim devoted yet another work dedicated to this problem -- "The Defense by Archpriest S. Bulgakov of the Heresy of Sophianism in the Face of Its Condemnation by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad", Sofia, 1937.

 

The above mentioned works, written in a patristic spirit completely demolish the Sophianist heresy of Bulgakov and Florensky.



The decision of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad which condemned the false teaching of Archpriest S. Bulgakov was founded on a most serious theological analysis made by Archbishops John (Maximovitch) and Seraphim (Sobolev). For this reason the claim made by Sophianists that those Bishops who have declared Bulgakov to be a heretic allegedly did not read his works, is a flimsy lie.



Another deliberate lie is the assertion made by a cleric of Moscow Patriarchate, Hegumen Andronik (Trubachev), a relative of Florensky and a popularizer of his ideas, that "in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad the honoring of Florensky as a martyr began in 1981. His name and his image are to be found on the icon of the New Martyrs. Fr. Pavel is especially revered as a martyr by the Brotherhood of St. Herman of Alaska (California)..." (JMP, No.12, p.31) [150].



The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad through its First Hierarch Metropolitan Vitaly made the following statement concerning the supposed glorification of priest Pavel Florensky: "In the name of the Bishops' Council and Synod the editorial office of this Messenger makes a categorical announcement that the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad did not even consider and could not bring itself to make such a glorification. An annoying error of purely iconographic character has taken place. On the icon of the New Martyrs of Russia the name of Pavel Florensky was inscribed but not his image.



If one makes an analysis of Fr. Pavel Florensky's book with a pretentious title "The Pillar and an Affirmation of Truth" and of his other works then an Orthodox reader is confronted with an image of this outstanding priest with a turbulent soul who threw himself into the sea of theology without a compass and who is sailing towards a goal which is not known to anyone including himself". (Metropolitan Vitaly, The Orthodox Messenger, a monthly publication of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, USA and Canada, No. 30/31, pp.5-6.)




The Moscow Patriarchate has been popularizing the false teaching of priest Pavel Florensky and Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov for a long time. Many hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchate have been speaking and writing about them; among them are: the now Patriarch Alexy II (Address delivered at the 8th General Assembly of the KEC, JMP No. 1, 1980), The Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk Vladimir, a former rector of Moscow Theological Academy /MTA/ (Master's dissertation, see Theological Works, collection 21; the speech made at the MTA on the 22 February, 1982, JMP No.4, 1982); Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Grodno, Patriarch's Exarch of all Belorussia, former rector of the MTA; Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokalamsk, the chairman of the Publications Committee of the MP (Theological Works, collection 5; JMP, No.4, 1969; JMP, No.l, 1975, address delivered in Uppsala; JMP, No.4, 1982); Metropolitan of Smolensk Kirill, a former rector of Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) Theological Academy -LTA, JMP, No.7, 1982).



The list of those who belong to the Moscow Patriarchate and write apologetically about Florensky and Bulgakov can be extended by many names of clerics, professors and teachers of MTA and LTA. Let us name only some of them: Archimandrite Platon (Igumenov), professor of MTA (Candidate's dissertation, St. Sergius and the Holy Trinity Lavra, 1979, JMP No. 10, 1989); M.A. Starokadomsky (JMP, Nos. 4, 8, 1969); Archpriest Ioann Kozlov, A.I. Georgievsky (The Voice of Orthodoxy, No.2, 1971); Archimandrite Innokenty (Prosvirnin), Hegumen Andronik (Trubachev); Archimandrite Iannuary (Ivliev), Archpriest Vladimir (Fedorov), both of them are teachers at St.Petersburg Theological Academy, and many other clerics of the Moscow Patriarchate.



The above list is significant evidence of the role of the MP in the cause of dissemination of Sophianist ideas in Russia.



Moreover, the Journal of Moscow Patriarchate (JMP) was until recently essentially the only spiritual reading permitted by the Soviet authorities to the millions of Orthodox people in Russia; these people were, as a rule, not only theologically uneducated but were even deprived of basic catechization. And to make matters even worse, the pages of this journal have for several decades presented a picture of "abomination of desolation". JMP preaches, apart from ecuмenism, all kinds of false teachings and simply heresies to the clerics of MP and to many innocent souls.

 

And, probably, the heresy of Sophianism is accorded the greatest honor. This heresy, under the guise of subtle "theological creativity" is being forced on the students of Theological Academies and of Seminaries, i.e. on the future priests and theologians; it is a subject of many Master's and Candidate's dissertations; at present, thanks to the example by MP, the lay journals and newspapers mention Florensky and Bulgakov frequently, they are discussed on radio and television for hours.

 

The heresy of Sophianism has so deeply penetrated the minds of the many clerics of MP and of their flock, has poisoned their consciousness to such an extent that not everyone is capable of freeing oneself from it!



Serious works which subject this spiritually dangerous false teaching to rigorous criticism have been written about Sophianism. It must be emphasized that Sophianists usually either distort or persistently hush up criticisms of priest Pavel Florensky and Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov [151].



Explanation of the essence of the Sophianist heresy lies beyond the scope of this essay. We refer the reader to the capital work of Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) "A New Teaching on Sophia, the Wisdom of God" (Sofia, 1935) which exposes the heresy of Sophianism and on the basis of which this false teaching was condemned by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.

 

In this essay we are interested in this heresy because its creators priests Pavel Florensky and Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov, have introduced a fourth, feminine hypostasis into the Divine Trinity by means of a cunningly conceived teaching on Sophia (rooted in Plato's pagan philosophy, in cabbalistic teaching, as well as in gnosticism condemned by the Church, particularly in Valentinian gnosticism and a series of other later gnostics-theosophers). A few more steps and we are close to a "theology of women" and an ecuмenical feminist dream of "feminizing" God. We already hear voices speaking of the "goddess-mother" beside "God the Father" within Christianity. Thus, at the 6th Assembly of the WCC in Vancouver (1983) where the "priesthood" of women was legalized, many participants "urged women to replace the idea of God the Father by that of goddess-mother [152]. And in 1993 women-ecuмenists pronounced Sophia as their goddess and worshipped her (see Chapter 6).



New "translations" of the Holy Scriptures containing feminized grammatical forms have already been published. In recent decades the Holy Bible has often been subjected to distortion by "new translations" into English and other languages.



But not one of these "translations" has introduced as many blasphemies as the one published by the WCC in 1983 and entitled "Inclusive Language Lectionary".

 

To please feminists the WCC decided to "rid" the Word of God of "sexism" by removing from the Holy Bible all the passages where "preference" is given to men and the male sex.



In the new "translation", blasphemous changes have entered even into such inviolable phrases as "God the Father", which now reads "God Father/Mother"; the "Son of Man" is replaced by the "Human Child"; the "Kingdom of God" is replaced by the words "the Sphere of God"; "Lord" being of masculine gender is taken out of the Holy Scriptures and replaced by the word "Sovereign One" which is of neuter gender. Instead of "the Lord God" the new "translation" offers "God the Sovereign".



In the Book of Genesis where we are told about the creation of man, the word "man" is replaced by the word "humanity". To the mention of patriarchs are added women's names: "Abraham our father/and Sarah and Agar our mothers."



In the New Testament, where the Evangelists speak of our Savior's miracles, ecuмenical translators say that Christ healed a "person". The highpriestly prayer of the Savior at the Last Supper according to St. John, sounds particularly blasphemous in this translation.


For the compilation of their own Bible, the WCC established a Committee headed by Lutheran, Victor Roland Gold. It consisted of three men and six women, one of whom was a Catholic nun. In the process of work, one of the Committee members left because he thought that "this task went beyond the limits permitted by his conscience".



Of greatest difficulty for the Committee were the words "God the Father". Feminists demanded the use of "God/dess", but this turned out to be unacceptable; a suggested replacement by the word "parents" also seemed too impersonal for these innovators; therefore they came up with a disgraceful term "God our Father/Mother".



The critics of this outrageous work, published under the title "Excerpts from the Bible", are absolutely right when commenting that it undermines the very foundations of Christianity by completely destroying the dogma of the Holy Trinity.



This deliberate falsification of the Holy Scriptures caused stormy protests even from journals and newspapers which are far removed from religion, such as New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Human Events, etc.

 

Despite all the protests and mass criticism, the WCC announced that it fully supported the new text of the "translation" of some parts of the Holy Bible [153].



Therefore, it was hardly surprising that the representatives of the "theology of women" at the last Seventh Assembly in Canberra permitted themselves to speak of the Mother of God in familiar terms [154], or to pose a question similar to that of Dr. Margo Kessman from Germany, "is Eve, who strove to knowledge, so sinful after all?" [155].



It is noteworthy that the "theologians" of the above-mentioned Theological Institute in Paris reason in the same manner. Thus, one of its teachers, Nikolai Osorgin, when reflecting on the Mother of God, maintains: "If we arrive at the concept of unity of all women in the image of the Mother of God, in the order of the eternal present which embraces everything that was and was not, then all women (!) have a chance (!) of becoming the Mother of God" [156].


FALSIFICATIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE



[140] "Deianiia Vselenskikh Soborov" (The Acts of Ecuмenical Councils), Kazan, 1887, vol. I, pp.19-28.
 

[141] Ibid., 1892, vol.VII.


[142] Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) "Novoe uchenie o Sofii Premudrosti Bozhiei" (The New Teaching concerning Sophia the Wisdom of God), Sofia, 1935,p.121.


[143] Ibid. p.121.


[144] Ludmila Perepiolkina, "Literaturno-kriticheskaia deiatelnost' Vladimira Solov'eva v sisteme ego filosofskikh idei" (Literary-critical Activity of Vladimir Soloviev in the System of His Philosophical Ideas). Tampere (Finland), 1995, pp.35-37, 196-199.


[145] See, for example, such works of Vladimir Soloviev as "Chteniia of Bogochelovechestve" (Readings about Nature of God-Man) /particularly from the seventh reading onwards/, Brussels, 1969, pp. 295-304; "Smysl liubvi" (The Meaning of Love) and a series of his other philosophical and poetical works.


[146] Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) "Novoe uchenie o Sofii" (The New Teaching on Sophia), p. 513.


[147] Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) "Zashchita sofianskoi eresi protoiereem S. Bulgakovym pred litsom Arkhiereiskago Sobora Russkoi Zarubezhnoi Tserkvi" (The Defense of the Heresy of Sophianism by Protopriest S. Bulgakov in the Face of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Church Abroad), Sofia, 1937, p.9.


[148] Ibid.

[149] Hieromonk John (Maximovitch). "Pochitanie Bogoroditsy i Ioanna Krestitelia i novoe napravlenie russkoi religiozno-filosofskoi mysli; Uchenie o Sofii, Premudrosti Bozhiei. (Veneration of the Mother of God and John the Baptist and a new direction of Russian religious philosophical thought; Teaching on Sophia, the Wisdom of God). Collection Letopis' pochitaniia Arkhiepiskopa Ioanna (Maksimovicha). Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina, California, 1980, pp. 15-142.


[150] With regard to the Brotherhood of St. Herman of Alaska where according to Hegumen Andronik "Fr. Pavel is especially revered", it must be said that this Brotherhood no longer exists and its former head, Herman (Podmoshensky) has been deprived of priestly rank "for breaking a series of canonical rules and for exhibiting pride and conceit and for being disobedient to the ecclesiastical authority to which he was canonically subordinate" (Minutes No. 74 of the meeting concerning the deprivation of priestly rank of Hegumen Herman (Podmoshensky) of the Presbyters' Section of the Diocesan Council of the West American Diocese which had the authority of a Spiritual Court, 16 June 1988, under the chairmanship of V. Rev. Laurus, the Archbishop of Syracuse and Holy Trinity. "The Church Life", New York, 1988, No. 3-4, p. 80.) Apart from that in the Minutes of the Spiritual Court it is said that "Hegumen Herman has willfully left the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, having joined an uncanonical jurisdiction of one Metropolitan Pancratius and, while he was under an ecclesiastical interdict, began to celebrate divine services (ibid. p.80).


This does not prevent the Moscow Patriarchate from showing signs of attention to defrocked hieromonk Gleb Podmoshensky and to popularize his journal Russkii palomnik (The Russian Pilgrim) and other works, in which he takes vengeance on the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
 

It is not surprising that Podmoshensky (the former Hegumen Herman) especially reveres Pavel Florensky and, in his turn, disseminates Sophianist ideas in Russia.


[151] Among the critics of Florensky and Bulgakov, apart from Archbishop Seraphim, it is necessary to mention V.N. Lossky ("Spor o Sofii" /Debate about Sophia/, Paris, 1936), and Protopriest Professor George Florovsky ("Puti Russkago bogosloviia" /The Ways of Russian Theology/, Paris, 1937).

From the recent critical works the article "Iz istorii Novgorodskoi ikonografii" /From the History of Novgorod Iconography/ is worthy of being mentioned (Bogoslovskie trudy /Theological Works/, coll. 27, M., 1986, pp. 61-80). This remarkable article was signed by the late Metropolitan Anthony (Mel'nikov). However, before it was published in Theological Works -- when it was still a Samizdat manuscript -- the name of its author was designated by the initials N.K.G. As far as is known this text belongs to professor of MTA Nikolai Gavrilovich Gavriushin. Metropolitan Anthony, who was then the chairman of the editorial collegium of Theological Works was able to publish this article against Florensky only as a result of having placed his name under it. Of great interest is the article of B. Yakovenko "Bogoslovsko-filosofskii modernizm sviashchennika Pavla Florenskogo v svete Pravoslaviia" (Theological-philosophical Modernism of Priest Pavel Florensky in the Light of Orthodoxy), Magazine Zemlia (The Earth), No. 11, 1989; also published in the journal of the Bishops' Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Tserkovnaia zhizn' (The Church Life), Nos. 1-2, 1990, pp. 36-64). In this work the author while analyzing the works of priest Pavel Florensky speaks in particular about the paganism of Sophianist heresy, the "veneration of God's name", the heresy of the "veneration of icons", magic, occultism, religious modernism and other aspects of the teaching of this heresiarch who is so much revered by the church liberals.


[152] Professor K. Galitis, "The Protestant Majority Must Not Be Allowed to Decide on Behalf of the Orthodox!", Orthodoxos Typos, No. 576, Athens, 14.10.1986, p.4, col.5; compare Journal 6 of the Assembly of WCC Canvas, No. 14, Vancouver, 10.8.1983, p.2, col.4.


[153] See New York Times, 15.10.83; Newsweek, 24.10.83; in Russian the theme of "new translations" of the Bible was several times dealt with in Pravoslavnaia Rus' (Orthodox Russia) No. 21, 1/14 November 1983, No.2, 15/28 January 1984, published by the Press of St. Job of Pochaev, Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, USA.


[154] See the article "Women want more than "timid" change" in the 7-th Bulletin of the WCC Assembly Assembly Line No. 1, Canberra, 7-8.2.1991, p.3.


[155] Ibid., p.3, co1.3.


[156] See the interview given by Nikolai Osorgin to the magazine Beseda (Discussion) No. 7, Leningrad-Paris, 1988, p. 199.


Title: May God console you!
Post by: Stephanos II on January 14, 2009, 11:18:55 PM
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Classiccom on January 17, 2009, 09:03:08 AM
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Going therefore, teach ye all nations




     "May God Console you"  seems like a cop out to me. I just wish we as Catholics had a little more of the common sense God instilled in the Jєωιѕн people for six thousand years.

    First of all, we have the majority of popes and bishops who trashed the idea of teaching the Gospel, and instead fed us Vatican Council and other worldly opinion. Here in America for the last 100 years, you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than for the Catholic Clergy going out and preaching the gospel. In any company or organization, such officers would be fired for non performance of duty. I made the point of evacuation signs, because even in the pagan world provides emergency precautions. Should not the people in charge of the spiritual realm instruct expedient spiritual directions. Maybe the real reason is that the "shepards" don't even believe in the spirit, but are wolves.
    Lets get down to brass tacks. For the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr to exist, the Devil would have to invent cry, but do nothing Catholicism as it exists today. Here is what I propose as a method to combat the enemy of the Faith.

1 - The ten commandments, - printed with the four major versions - Catholic Protestant, Jєωιѕн and Moslem and also the straight Catholic bible translation. This is especially needed to  combat the spread of lawlessness that has saturated the entire world.

  If Catholics reflected on how on the Jєωιѕн 1st commandment is writen,  they would understand how they have been betrayed by popes and clergy. (Assisi - interfaith).They might understand that we have gone full circle and have returned to slavery in Egypt , except on a global scale. As far as ecuмanism goes, if we can't even agree on the 10 commandments, what is the point to ecuмanism? It is a farce!  

 The Devil does his homework - Do you? Try and find a poster size copy of the ten commanments. Lots of luck!  I hear a lot of whining about the 10 commanments being removed from public places, but most Christians never display them. I think this has to be a strong diabolic delusion. Many Protestants don't want to see them because they think they are already saved.

  ....   to be continued

 
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Classiccom on January 17, 2009, 10:16:54 AM
  Here is a good laugh (or groan) . I found a poster size copy ot the ten commandments in about 5 minutes after I made the last post. Different 10 Commandments . (posted in a bookstore window)



http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/

http://blog.beliefnet.com/ourladyofweightloss/2008/03/the-ten-commandments-of-perman.html

http://www.ourladyofweightloss.com/e-cards/detail.php?id=6

The Ten Commandments of Permanent Fat Removal
Friday March 7, 2008

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1. Thou shalt honor and believe in thyself.
2. Thou shalt move thy booty. Move it and move it some more.
3. Thou shalt never go hungry again. Eat small meals and healthy snacks throughout the day.
4. Thou shalt stock the fridge with the right stuff - the fruits and vegetables of the earth, the melba toast of men who walked before us.
5. Thou shalt honestly write it down. If you bite it, you must write it.
6. Thou shalt weigh and measure thyself and thy food.
7. Thou shalt drink enough Holy Water to frighten Noah and map out all the restrooms in thy village.
8. Thou shalt not deny thyself a treat or two now and then.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's plate.
10. Thou shalt not eat out of misery, boredom, anxiety ... but should they over-indulge, forgive thyself immediately. All Is Forgiven, Move On!

Title: May God console you!
Post by: Dawn on January 17, 2009, 04:30:21 PM
Disgusting. What fools.
Title: May God console you!
Post by: Classiccom on January 17, 2009, 05:13:43 PM
   Forget the supernatural trend continues.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50E7FB20090115

Outrage in Chile at busty Virgin Mary models

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary -- in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.

The Roman Catholic Church condemned Ricardo Oyarzun's plans for a show featuring the models, and a conservative group tried unsuccessfully to block it in court.

Oyarzun said he had received telephone threats and had excrement smeared on his doorstep.

"There is no pornography here, there's no sex, there are no virgins menstruating or feeling each other up," Oyarzun said ahead of the catwalk show set to be held at a Santiago nightclub later on Thursday. "This is artistic expression."

He said his designs -- which include halos, look as though they come from a nativity scene and include religious icons -- were inspired by the Virgin Mary but not intended to represent her.

"We look on with special pain and deplore those acts which seek to tarnish manifestations of sincere love toward the Virgin Mary, which end up striking at the dignity of womankind by presenting her as an object of consumption," Chile's Episcopal Conference, which includes Catholic bishops, said in a statement.

The show is more evidence that Chile, heavily influenced by the church for decades, is shaking off its reputation as one of the most socially conservative countries in Latin America.

(Reporting by Monica Vargas; Writing by Simon Gardner; Editing by Xavier Briand)



Title: May God console you!
Post by: Classiccom on January 21, 2009, 06:21:52 PM
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Going therefore, teach ye all nations




    "May God Console you"  seems like a cop out to me. I just wish we as Catholics had a little more of the common sense God instilled in the Jєωιѕн people for six thousand years.

    First of all, we have the majority of popes and bishops who trashed the idea of teaching the Gospel, and instead fed us Vatican Council and other worldly opinion. Here in America for the last 100 years, you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than for the Catholic Clergy going out and preaching the gospel.

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   I just wanted to amplify this sentiment with the following.

http://www.sspx.co.uk/page5.htm


SSPX Press Release

Concerning Swedish TV docuмentary 21/01/09

http://www.sspx.co.uk/page5.htm

20th JANUARY 2009

The press secretary of the Catholic Diocese of Stockholm, Sweden, has issued a statement in anticipation of a Swedish television report concerning the Society of Saint Pius X (to be broadcast on 21/01/09).

The diocesan release pretends to deal with different issues surrounding the Society and concludes with the paragraph: 'We would like to make clear the differences between them (SSPX) and the Catholic Church. We completely distance ourselves from all forms of racism and anti-Semitism. The Catholic Church in Sweden has nothing to do with the "Crusade" for making Sweden Catholic again, as reported by the programme, and does not support it in any way.

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     It's time to smoke out  these antichrist bishops. They refuse the direct commands of Jesus Christ to teach all nations. Tell the public that there still are Christians who would like to preach the Gospel but during this great apostasy, very few hold positions of  power in the Catholic Church.

Refer to Luke 18:8 .
 

   
Title: Re: May God console you!
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 27, 2018, 07:55:00 AM
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