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Andonios ( antonmetrios):
Actually, I think the answers given by various priests are going to be different--but I really doubt any priest is going to say "all sins are equally harmful to the soul and to one's relationship with God." Especially not a contemporary priest ( Read more... )
Actually, I think the answers given by various priests are going to be different--but I really doubt any priest is going to say "all sins are equally harmful to the soul and to one's relationship with God." Especially not a contemporary priest ( Read more... )
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I'm actually very surprised to hear that. Did they really mean to say petty theft is tantamount to murder? Those were the lines along which I was thinking. I've never known an Orthodox priest to be so extreme.
(On the other hand: It may not make sense in the Judicial Model of Salvation where a sin is compared to a crime, some worse than others, but it may in the Participationist Model. Here sin is a cosmic power enslaving humanity, much like an illness. This latter view also happens to be more predominant in Eastern Orthodox Churches. According to this view, Sin is Sin--I just don't know if a sin is a sin.)
Anyway, I'm inclined no longer to participate in the discussions of questions like these. My stand is that sense can't be made of it, while many believers inform me sense doesn't have to be made and shouldn't be made because trying to understand is God's mysteries (which include love) leads inevitably to heresy. To be a believer, I feel, a person needs to rely on various assumptions. It's easy enough if he never ( ... )
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