nihilism

The Tide

Truly never before has the cross of each person who wants to be a true Christian been as heavy as in this time of the triumph of falsehood which we are experiencing.

Never before on this earth has there been such a huge number of people who freely and easily, without any shame, without any pangs of conscience “call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20). — Archbishop Averky of Syracuse (of Blessed Memory)

Comment: People often say that this has all been said before – that things are worse than ever. What they seldom is consider is that perhaps, each time it was said, it was true. Each Great and Holy Monday. Each Great and Holy Tuesday. each Great and Holy Wednesday, has it not been true. Have things not been worse than ever?

Ultimate Questions

Fundamental religious questions. Where I’ve been, and where I am going.

Ultimate Questions Protestant
Anglican
Orthodox
Who am I? A Christian * A Sinner
* Dust
The Sinner
Who are others? Needing salvation Brothers * Superior
* “By their prayers save me.”
* “All shall be saved, I alone condemned.”
Why am I here? For Salvation For Life For Repentance
How should I live? Scripturally * Morally
* Ethically
Theosis (Union w. God)
Where are we in history or time? The End Times The Age of the Church * The Last Days of Christ’s Economy.
* Christ’s Millenial Reign
* The Eighth Day of Creation
Why do we suffer? Sin (one’s own) * Sin (the world’s)
* Grace
Death

I don’t wish to be unfair to the fullness of Protestant or Anglican psychology, so I’ll say that my own view is coloured by looking at it in retrospect, and by perhaps inadequate understanding at the time. This represents then, not so much a commentary on each individual confession, but a personal progression. One may contrast each of the columns, however, with a column for Nihilism in which there are no answers to ultimate questions. The Orthodox column, also, is properly seen not as an either/or exclusion of the others, but a both/and. In other words, the other columns are assumed in the fullness of Orthodoxy. If I wanted to go farther, perhaps a comparison of theology and piety: …

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