Do you know the TRUE Gospel? w/ Fr.Andrew Stephen Damick
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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick is Chief Content Officer of Ancient Faith Ministries. He is the co-host of The Lord of Spirits and many more podcast.
The Gospel is not about what Jesus can do for your life. It is not even an answer to the question "How I can be saved?" On this episode of the Transfigured Life we join with Fr. Andrew Damick to discuss what the Gospel Truly is from the time of the Apostles till today.
Fr.Andrew Stephen Damick is author of Arise O' God one of the most important treatments of the Gospel in the english language. This episode pulls many themes out from his book which is linked below.
0:00 - Intro to Fr.Andrew Damick Bio & Projects
13:00 - Why you should read his book Arise O' God
16:50 - What the Gospel is NOT?
18:15 - What Is a Gospel?
26:57 - The Original vs the Western understanding of the Gospel
38:00 - The Gospel Contextualized
46:33 - The Harrowing of Hades and why it's lost in the West
60:00 - Closing Remarks
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I'm a Lutheran and have read Arise, O God twice.
I've been a Protestant all of my 60 years, and never saw the Gospel presented like this.
Masterful. Brilliant.
I'm seriously thinking about Orthodoxy now.
Please pray for me.
Amen. Thanks for sharing. May the Holy Trinity lead you my friend! ☦️
Ever since I started listening to the "Lord of Spirits", "The Whole Counsel of God", and "The Light Through the Past" podcasts, last year, I've purchased 6 audiobooks, 3 by Fr Stephen De Young, 2 by you, Fr Andrew, and 1 by Fr Josiah Trenham. "Arise O God" is one of my favorites. I'm always looking for new releases and new episodes. Besides prayer, there is no better way to spend my "retirement time" at home. It's much better than vegetating in front of a T.V. I've been an Orthodox Christian for 35 years and retired for 23 years. After years in "the doldrums", watching my health decline, and enduring the loss of the "love of my life" last year, I am getting a renewed enthusiasm for the faith. Thank you!
Thanks for tuning in with us! And I agree the Kingdom agenda is a great use of time. May God grant you good health and many more years! ☦️
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Best wishes to you!
I have the book Arise, O God and my husband and I read it together. Now I'm going to re-read it. Great podcast!
Thanks Jacqueline! I'm with you there I'll be re-reading it again too! 😊
I agree with you Fr Jonathan! Thank God for the converts and what they bring to our faith!
Fr. Jonathan and Luther...awesome interview! This is how it is to be done. Ask a question and let the guest speak to it. Chime in occasionally with a connected thought... perfect.
You two are knocking it out of the park!
Thanks, Fr. Andrew. Your articulate explanations of these matters are extremely helpful.
I have been tremendously blessed and helped by the labor of you brothers.
Thank you. Sincerely.
Thanks so much! We appreciate your continued support! 😊
I'm shocked. As a former protestant, I have much to relearn.
Great conversation!
Fantastic episode. I’m looking forward to buying “Arise, O’ God”.
Great podcast! Glad you guys could do that
Thanks Kevin! ☦️
I always wondered. What the gospel was. What I grew up hearing. The comming of the kingdom of heaven to earth made the most sense to me. That is what john the baptist preached.
Fr Genius De Young
Haha so true a real genius indeed!
@@IC_XC_NIKA on his Podcast THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD, hr JUST started GEN1 (and just finished Revelation.
Great time to jump in with him on Genesis!
Half the first episode covers the first sentence in the Bible.
Buckle seatbelts time !
What happens to earthly bodies that have been cremated when they are raised?
Oh this is so cool, I'm glad you guys talked about Arise O God, that's my favorite of Fr. Damick's books. It was actually the first book club I did! th-cam.com/play/PLHW8GDChB2WZVNF4bY9ss0RDdltvtLJO6.html
Why does God require blood sacrifice in the Old Testament from an Orthodox perspective? Sorry if you addressed this, but I didn't hear it in the video.
Many sacrifices in the Torah weren’t animals. They could be grain, oil and wine. Whatever the sacrifice is, it’s always food because a sacrifice is a meal (usually a shared meal). The blood isn’t part of the sacrifice, it’s poured on the ground.
I know what you mean is “why the killing of animals”, but it’s worth clarifying. As for the killing, you have to kill an animal to eat it. The killing itself is not part of the ritual and doesn’t have to be done in any particular way.
But the reason God asks for sacrifice is so that we can give it. Sacrificing helps us accept that we’re forgiven and affirms our love for God and our relationship with him. The same way letting your friend do something nice to make up for offending you will make him feel better, so you should accept it even if you don’t need it. The offering “covers” the sin so you can stop worrying about it and resume your friendship.
@@huntz0r I can see the offerings and sacrifices in that light as well. But what about the passover lamb whose blood saved the Israelites from the angel of death? Isn't Christ our passover lamb? Isn't His blood what saves us from death?
@@rh10033 absolutely. And it connects to Eucharistic theology. If the Eucharist is Christ's body and blood, and our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, you can see how receiving that into one's own body is prefigured in the image of the blood over the door on Passover and the sprinkling of blood inside the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement.
@@huntz0r That is a good connection
Thanks for sharing! I guess I just am still a little confused since God requires the blood sacrifice for passover. Doesn't that mean that the blood was significant, not just the eating of a meal?
I am a non-denominational Christian who has been studying church history and theology. I am trying to understand how the Eastern Orthodox view Christ's sacrifice. I understand Christus Victor and can see it plainly in the scriptures. But I'm having trouble understanding why the Orthodox Church doesn't also accept substitutionary atonement. Didn't Jesus take our place on the cross? Thanks for any information and patience!
@@rh10033 We can say a lot about how the blood is significant, but we should be clear on how it isn't. The blood is not something God needs in order to perform the miracle. This should be obvious; he is God. He already knew which houses had faithful Israelites in them and could've simply not let the angel touch any of those houses.
The problem with PSA is similar. It arises from a premise roughly like, "God has to punish sin." Well, isn't he God? Can't he do whatever he wants? A master who wants to forgive his servant's debt just says "Your debt is forgiven" and that's the end of it. If he is required to find the money somewhere else then he isn't the master, he is only the steward who will be in trouble if the ledgers don't add up. So you can't impose necessity on God, that makes him not God anymore.
Of course God forgiving everyone freely doesn't mean everyone is saved. Atonement is the restoration of a relationship, not a change in legal status. It's all contained in the story of the Prodigal. The father always forgave his son, because he loved him. There was no price for the son to come home besides having to swallow his pride. If he'd decided he would rather die starving in a pig pen than crawl back home and be seen as a loser, that's exactly what would have happened. He would have never got back home to the father who was waiting there to embrace him.
55:09. In scripture the Jews had to sacrifice animals for remission of sins. So what does the Andrew man mean? No offense, not trying to be difficult, just want to see what he is trying to say exactly.
He's basically saying the death was not a sort of appeasement of God's wrath but rather it was the gateway for Christ to enter into death and to destroy it from within.
Christ is risen from the dead trampling death by death and upon those in the tombs bestowing life! ☦️
This is one issue I have as I consider Orthodoxy... as the Father here says he could'nt find any books etc on what the gospel is according to the EO. Doesn't that speak to where the priority is in the EO? After looking into it for quite a while, I still have no idea how to convey the gospel from an EO perspective. That's a HUGE problem. They believe at least historically that there are no Christians other than Orthodox Christians, and yet seems to be little concern to reach out to those heading to hell. If I'm honest it seems odd and dark.
Those are assumptions about Orthodoxy that aren't true. The gospel is in our liturgy. It's a part of our liturgical life and we desire that all will come to the knowledge of Christ. ☦️
@@TheTransfiguredLife it’s not an assumption it’s my experience. The apostles and others of the early Church went out proclaiming the gospel… because where else would the world hear it? How would the unbelieving world hear the gospel in the liturgy when they are not in your church?
@@culpepper7665 with respect to your experience it's not explaining the whole picture. We have missionaries all over the world and Orthodox faithful who proclaim the gospel to the world everyday.
@@TheTransfiguredLife okay, genuine question: what is the gospel in a nutshell so I can finally understand the EO perspective?
@@culpepper7665 No worries, Fr.Andrew Stephen Damick explains it in this video. But in a nutshell the gospel is the announcement of Jesus Christ’s victory over demons, sin, and and ultimately death.
After 4 minutes of listening with no indication the topic in the video title was about to be covered anytime soon I realized I fell for a clickbait title with no real content. I hate when channels do this. And no, I didn’t want to waste any more time watching this video after realizing I was tricked out of 4 minutes already.
Bro. It’s an hour long video, you gotta get introductions outta the way first. The book is called Arise O God, it’s about the gospel, the video is about the book and the gospel as presented by it.
There’s time stamps, labelled.
We do address The Gospel in this episode quite thoroughly. As was mentioned above feel free to utilize the timestamps for your convenience.
A whole 4 minutes? Glad you got patience and perseverance 🤣
They do have the chapters marked so you can fast forward to the section you're interested in. I find that extremely helpful when I'm short on time.