http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2008/03/why-eastern-orthodoxy-part-1-introduction/ Making Theology Accessible Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2008/03/why-eastern-orthodoxy-part-1-introduction/comment-page-1/#comment-27465 Salah Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:13:33 +0000 http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/?p=755#comment-27465 This was a wonderful summary of the relationship between Orthodoxy and Protestant church (es). There is also another critical and major differences between Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Church; its spirit. In Orthodoxy Christ is the Word of God. He is the scriptures of the Church. In another words, Christ resides in the church (if two or three gathered in my name, I will be in their midst). These words are taken “liturgically” not figuratively. Christ is in the midst of His Church. The Church was born in the day of the Pentecost in which the Spirit of God (the Holly Spirit) dissented and filled the Church with God. This is the Kingdom of God, where God dwells in the heart of Man; the Kingdom of God is within you. God in the Eastern Church does not reveal Himself to us in a book, but in the depth of our heart. The only work left for man is to prepare his / er heart for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are the new tabernacles of Christ. We dwell in His Kingdom. "This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3). Western Christianity invested many efforts in “learning” about God through the scriptures instead of knowing God through the liturgical life of communion with God. Christ came to “reveal” God to our hearts. In Christ Salah This was a wonderful summary of the relationship between Orthodoxy and Protestant church (es). There is also another critical and major differences between Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Church; its spirit.
In Orthodoxy Christ is the Word of God. He is the scriptures of the Church. In another words, Christ resides in the church (if two or three gathered in my name, I will be in their midst). These words are taken “liturgically” not figuratively. Christ is in the midst of His Church. The Church was born in the day of the Pentecost in which the Spirit of God (the Holly Spirit) dissented and filled the Church with God. This is the Kingdom of God, where God dwells in the heart of Man; the Kingdom of God is within you.
God in the Eastern Church does not reveal Himself to us in a book, but in the depth of our heart. The only work left for man is to prepare his / er heart for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are the new tabernacles of Christ. We dwell in His Kingdom.
“This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3).
Western Christianity invested many efforts in “learning” about God through the scriptures instead of knowing God through the liturgical life of communion with God.
Christ came to “reveal” God to our hearts.
In Christ
Salah

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