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To: count-your-change

The Orthodox fathers contend that knowing God requires the believer to empty himself/herself and attain a state of stillness.

Human reason has its place, but it must always be subject to God. That is why the Eastern Christian tradition has always been one of negative theology unlike the Western tradition, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, trying to put God in a box and define him.


7 posted on 12/28/2011 12:18:06 PM PST by rzman21
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“The Orthodox fathers contend that knowing God requires the believer to empty himself/herself and attain a state of stillness.”

Whatever is meant here is no more understandable than that line of nonsense I wrote in the previous comment. Therein lies the danger of straying away from the simple message of the Good News, the attempts at high sounding philosophy become what Jesus called ‘wicked reasonings’ of the philosophers.

10 posted on 12/28/2011 1:33:09 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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