Orthodox Apologetics Part 12: The Incarnation, The Trinity, And Our Theosis

Metropolitan continues his Orthodox Apologetics series by discussing the Orthodox positions on the incarnation, the Holy Trinity, and theosis. Saint Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church. 19 May 2021.

[@vickykentrota9031]

Thank you so much for these very important classes .🙏🙏 Always love from Greece 🎀🇬🇷💙

[@jterrellielli7058]

Amazing class!!! Deep and approachable.

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

It's interesting that modern science works so well with this. Matter as energy and a body as a convalescence of energies. Not sure exactly how that fits in with body, spirit, and soul, but it seems to add a nuance that supports the Christian understanding of being.

[@stevelenores5637]

I actually have a very large protestant book on typology by James M. Hamilton from when I was protestant. It's over 400 pages long.

[@johnathanrhoades7751]

An interesting experience thing with (probably) the nous. My wife and I had a picture of the phases of the moon. Just a decoration. But it felt wrong to me. I just ignored it for a time thinking I was just being weird, but eventually I brought it up to my wife and she had, unbeknownst to me, had an even stronger experience of it being wrong. We promptly threw it out. It wasn't a "rational" experience, but it was a shared experience of what we perceived as a spiritual reality linked to material...we were part of a Calvinist church at the time too. Maybe we were off, but the fact that it was an independently verified experience makes me think we probably weren't...

[@lazywarriortv3096]

So basically by His incarnation Christ diefied the spiritual part of man, and by His resurrection He glorified the physical aspect of our being

[@stottthescottjohndunn9632]

It seems inaccurate to absolutize the saints in heaven as being without their bodies. The Body of Christ is our body. For when He appears, we shall see Him as He is and be like Him. The Saints are not bodiless as in ethereal whisps of disseminated spirit. They are members of Christ, members of His body and they have the Life of Christ in them, but the corporeal nature is not manifest as they await the Resurrection. The hope of our Resurrection is that we having already put on Christ. At His appearance our corporeal nature shall be resurrected or changed even as His own. (?) Rdr. John

[@genemyersmyers6710]

OCA shot themselves in the foot.

[@sealevelbear]

Sadly yes

[@larryjake7783]

Wait is this OCA ? And what do you mean, please explain

[@Burgermeister1836]

@@larryjake7783 Met. Jonah used to be the Primate of the OCA. He was "asked to resign" in 2012 for reasons that are very debatable. He is now a Bishop in ROCOR.