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BEGOME ORDODOX!!!
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Lol just read the Gospels. Become a God lover not a religious thug/pusher. 
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Become a God lover not a religious thug/pusher.


We in the Orthodox Church actually agree with you on this.

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Sounds good. I have my doubts though obviously. 
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Truly, it is really more Orthodox to preach through example than proselytizing.

Jesus Christ son of God have mercy on me a sinner.
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Truly, it is really more Orthodox to preach through example than proselytizing.

Well in this instance no need for any "orthodox church", because we agree. I don't need to become anything to do that. If you claim I need to become something you have already missed the boat. Have already divided yourself from another God lover. 

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God knows. What I must do is show no partiality.
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How do you know what your god knows?
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I know that God knows everything. It is not necessary to know what God knows.
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And yet you constantly claim to know what your god knows, ergo you claim to know everything. Hubris much?
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You claim that I make these claims. I make no such claims, as is plain for all to see. Quite the contrary, I openly confess that God's essence is unknowable. That being the case, I freely admit that I do not know God's thoughts, for truly they are higher than my thoughts.
However, God is present with us in the things that are made, and His Way can be discerned and walked in.

That is True Religion. To walk in The Way of God.

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However, God is present with us in the things that are made, and His Way can be discerned and walked in.
Is you claiming to know what your god knows.
As is this:
God knows. What I must do is show no partiality.
Is that what god knows or not?

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We know God by His Uncreated Divine energy which fills all things. This isn't knowing God's thoughts. It is discernment.

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Trying to think honestly is beyond anyone indoctrinated by god belief, any god that is.

We know God by His Uncreated Divine energy
Show me.
You claim to know a god.
All gods are created by man they exist only in your imagination.
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The God I worship is The Truth. The Truth is not created by man.

I know The Truth exists, and it is not sane to say other wise. Knowing The Truth exists is not the same as knowing The Truth. 




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You make unsupportable claims based on the words of the PISS. You have no evidence that supports your opinion. I do and it's the book that created your god.
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A book didn't create The Truth.

The Uncreated Pre-Eternal Truth is God.


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Your god is the creation of humans. Make up any stories you like about it, after all, that's what it's for.
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You think you know, but you don't.

Because you think you know, you will never know.



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What I know is that men create gods. You know that too but you are to afraid to include your god in that class.
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If you knew my God, you would know that it is very different from these gods.

Necessarily, when The Word is spoken, it must take flesh. And so when The Eternal and unpronounceable Name that is the very essence of God becomes flesh in order that we may witness God through it, that flesh takes the form of a written or spoken name. This name is creation, and it is this condescension of God to become creation that allows us to witness Him that is Uncreated. That incarnate word takes the name "The Supreme and Ultimate Reality".

And if you do not have the Spirit Of Truth to see that God is who God says He is, that is all you will see. All you will see is that created name, not recognizing The Spirit of that name and the Uncreated name it is a witness to. 

But if you have The Spirit, in recognizing The Divine through The Flesh that it takes, you can rightly profess belief in The Triune God. And so, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit constitute 1 God, The True God, as revealed in 3 hypostases.



And this is what distinguishes Orthodoxy from the pagans and even other monotheists. In not acknowledging The Trinity, they can only really profess worship of a conception of God. In The Trinity, we acknowledge the symbol while at the same time acknowledging the deeper reality it witnesses.

So no, you are very mistaken. The Supreme and Ultimate Reality is God, and there is no other like this God. The gods all came into being, and will one day cease to exist. They are gods in name only, but The One True God is The Supreme and Ultimate Reality.

To the glory of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.