Hi! You are very blessed you Americans, that you have between you fr. Seraphim Rose! I'm from one country who brought many saints, Greece! But fr. Seraphim Rose stills surprise me with his individual life and theology. For me he was the trigger to write a magazine about end of times. God bless you all!
I enjoyed listening to this recording. Sounds like Fr. Seraphim Rose would have found the truth no matter where he was living in the world while he was learning more about the word.
He was obviously dedicated to the truth seeking from early days, but he maitand until he really found it. He was not fooled by the false spiritual teachings , which provided comfort and often pleasures. Seems to me that after he found the truth, the truth assured him in so many ways. Than he could not stay silent and started sharing his path to the truth and what he became was living proof... thousands around him will be saved. God have mercy on us. Thank you.
My enlgish is not good but my heart saw Father Seraphim Rose .My holy father told me for father Seraphim and i read all the books.Father Seraphim is and will be in eternity a precusor of Holly Spirit.Father Seraphim is alive.When you need him just call him.Say Father Seraphim .....thakn you brothers and sisters for listening me.In a big problem father Seraphim was beside me.God blessed you all.All together for the big journey to heaven.
5:52 Fr Seraphim knew students, to come to the fullness of Truth, had to have something deep happen within them. 7:32 Awaken people to Jesus Christ ☦️ 8:34 8:56 Without a knowledge of Golgotha and The Cross ☦️ one could never come to a real knowledge of Christ, The Incarnate God ☦️ 9:11 Spiritual Battleground where the soul becomes purified through suffering. ☦️ 11:06 Reading 📖 12:06 13:05 13:24 Orthodox Literature 📖☦️ 14:40 Zeal for Reclusion, against the abbot’s wishes. Falling into deception. 15:37 The Soul Destroying Snake 🐍 and a Demon in the form of an angel 👼 😈 16:57 “Worldly people, and even monks without spiritual discernment, are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites, and those who are in demonic delusion.” 17:34 The Fathers of The Kiev Caves drove the devil from Nicetas of Novograd. 18:10 Restoration of Nicetas of Novograd 18:32 How can a religious seeker avoid traps and deceptions? + *be in the religious search, not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake of Truth.* 22:31 Miracles help one’s faith, but are not the right reason to believe in Christianity 25:17 It’s something in the heart ❤️ ❤️🔥 25:51 The Heart is Changed ❤️❤️🔥 30:06 God’s Revelation is given to a Loving Heart ❤️🔥 31:28 God sometimes has to breakdown and humble the heart, to make it perceptive 💔❤️🩹❤️🔥 31:51 Cold Calculation🥶 - taking advantage of other people through charlitanism. 33:08 “Suffering Orthodoxy.” ☦️ 34:18 Something goes along that helps to receive God’s Revelation☦️❤️ 36:25 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 📖☦️ 40:46 How a human being becomes evil and how a human being becomes good. 😈❤😇 42:02 Suffering is the reality of the human condition. ☦️❤️ 42:21 Yuri Mashkov’s Life 44:20 My life is a drop in the ocean 🌊 45:17 Education in The Soviet Union. 55:36 The Holy Spirit 59:59 Humbling Yourself (as well as being humbled by others) 1:03:55 Christ ☦️❤️🔥 Eternal Life In The Kingdom of Heaven.
Who wrote the original Introduction though? Was there one? Saint Herman's Monastery has falsified written material before. How do we know that Fr. Seraphim would have endorsed Fr. Damascene writing an Introduction?
In my experience with suffering and despair, if you endure long enough, the mind will invent a way to find meaning. I came to this idea before hearing convincing arguments for Christian faith, so afterwards, I cannot be convinced that whatever faith I might feel is not some insanity invented by my mind in order to avoid despair. I do have what I consider to be reasonable and meaningful ideas of God, which are not dependent on any religious tradition (although they are informed by religious traditions), but I cannot prove that any of them are right. I just like to imagine them and live according to them, because that seems like the most reasonable thing to do. When it comes to matters of preference (such as "I like vanilla"), believing a thing makes it true. So, it seems to me to be within my power to invent whatever meaning I like, and so long as it is not demonstrably in contradiction with sensory evidence or with logic, no one has the power to tell me that I'm wrong. I could assert, for instance, "That is a beautiful sky. Seeing this alone has made the day worth it," and if I believe it, it becomes true, and I do not need unverifiable supernatural claims as a foundation. Having a supernatural base for a system of values is helpful for unifying one's thoughts into a system, and I speculate on this, as I said, but I can prove only very little. I do not believe anything with certainty that I can't verify myself, because most people who have ever lived (including Christians) have been liars. So, I will not believe the gospel the same way as I believe that I am sitting here typing on my keyboard, until I see some kind of comprehensible miracle or another pointing in the direction of a particular religious doctrine.
Knowledge about god doesn't exist. God is the unknown. All so called saints have no knowledge about god too. They only repeat what they have read and heard from others. They have only neurotic second-hand shit book knowledge. First of must all religious preachers learn to have a mind of its own.
Who are you? Everything you know and have came from somewhere else. Why not be thankful? Faith is a question of will. Give it up and rest on God, or keep it and rest on yourself. Again, what are you really worth?
Why are you doing here then ??? Despite the hardness of your heart and the rigidity of your self will, the hungery and despite soul of yours led you here. Wake up before it’s too late.
Matthew 22:36 “Sir, which is the most important command in the laws of Moses?” 37 Jesus replied, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Is any Orthodox Christian reading this question 100% convinced that the Eastern Orthodox church is the true church, or are you just operating off of an educated guess? If you are 100% convinced, how does someone become that way? I'm too dumb for all the really deep, back-and-forth arguments. Is there a prayer I can say or a simple book from the Holy Fathers that will 100% convince me BEFORE joining a church? I want to know the truth but am too dumb to figure it out with my intellect. When I say 100% convinced, I mean that you know it as well as you know that you're conscious.
@@Unseen.Warfare That's cool. I would like to visit a monastery. Did you join the Greek Orthodox church? I have a few more questions. Would you say you are 100% convinced that Christianity is true and that Eastern Orthodoxy is true, or are you just 95% convinced or something? Do you have any doubt? If you aren't 100% convinced, do you think it is possible to be 100% convinced, or is that a silly standard? Regarding the prophets and apostles, I have a few questions. Do you completely trust that the prophecies from the prophets regarding Jesus are valid? Do you completely trust that the apostles were capable of understanding the meaning of the prophecies and capable of determining that Jesus fulfilled them? I think that Jesus fulfilling the prophecies is the most important thing when it comes to proving that He's God. The miracles He did are important, but, in my opinion, they, on their own, don't definitively prove He's God. They are just strong suggestions that He's God. I could be wrong about this though. Is there some point in the Old Testament where definitive proof is offered that certain miracles are from God? Did the prophets lay out a criteria? That all may not be necessary though because you have the ultimate prophet Jesus telling you that His miracles are from God, and it appears that Jesus proved He was a prophet after the things he foretold came to pass (Him rising from the grave, the temple being destroyed, what other prophecies did He make?). What do you think of the prophecy He made where He said that all of those things regarding the end of world would come to pass in "this generation." Was He wrong about that? I think that CS Lewis said He was wrong, but how could Jesus be wrong? Anyway, if Jesus proved He was a prophet, maybe you don't even need the Old Testament prophecies to prove that Jesus was God. You can just listen to Jesus. I don't know if I'm right about any of this. Thanks again for the information. Have a good one.
@@Unseen.Warfare Thank you for sharing that information. It's compelling. I've thought about this stuff for a while, and it seems like there's always some argument that can be made to undermine whatever argument the Christian is making, and you're left with something that's not definitive. It may most likely be true, but you don't know for sure. That's great that you're 100% convinced. Maybe one day I'll be too. I ask God for this constantly, to tell me what I ought to do, which church I ought to join. Thanks again. Have a good one.
The Catholic and Orthodox churches have historically both claimed exclusivity. In other words, if you're not in the church, you're not saved. But making sense of which church is the right one would require one to be an expert on church history, which does not seem fair. Also, so far as I can tell, the logic used by both sides already by the first church schism was not sound. In other words, I believe that neither the Eastern nor Oriental orthodox were guided by the holy spirit when they split. But even if I'm wrong on that point, that is an issue of misunderstanding arcane Christology and church history from a long time ago, and it does not seem fair to make my salvation dependent on this. I used to be Eastern Orthodox, but now I disbelieve that any church actually speaks for God. The churches that have a sound church tradition have contradictions in their claims, and the churches with looser dogma do not even know what they believe. Suppose a king wants to send an important message to all his subjects. At first, there is only one message and one interpretation of the message, but the process of copying and relaying the message made a number of contradictory versions by the time it reaches peasants in the most distant parts of the kingdom. Suppose there is one peasant who receives several different versions of the king's order, and he says, "I don't believe that any of you speak for the king. You are trying to deceive me somehow. Go away." If the king passes by this peasant on a journey and learns of this situation, should he punish the peasant?
But suppose the king guaranteed that at least one copy would be the true one and that he would help whoever asked him to find it? Isn't this what we find in the Gospels? As for those outside of the Church, several of our saints have said that those who have faith in the Trinity and believe in the incarnation of Christ and are not willing heretics are not totally cut off from God.
Do Not underestimate the power of the Holy Spirit. He guides the Church which is the Bride of Christ. We must pray fast suffer and TRUST. (Total Reliance Upon Saving Truth.) Jesus Christ I TRUST in YOU.
This is incorrect- The EO church states they do not claim to know who is going to heaven, and do not claim that you have to be EO to get there. Of course they believe theirs is the true teaching (would be ridiculous and illogical if they taught a teaching they didn’t know was true or not) but that shouldn’t be confused with the status of souls outside of Orthodoxy. There are other ways to have knowledge of Truth besides researching history- I know many converts who were not compelled by research but by experience. But if history matters to you, the information is there. May God bless and guide you I pray!
@@arkenjoan2220 I haven't done the research thoroughly myself, but I have heard that there was no deviation from the claim to exclusivity within the Orthodox Church until the 19th century. That's what, "extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" originally meant. They were very clear that anathema was equal to damnation. I have heard that in the Synod of Jerusalem in 1672, they said that you aren't even a Christian if you aren't under an Orthodox Bishop.
The revelation of God comes through the revelation of his prophecies ( the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy) not by giving revelations to somebody's heart Prophecy is not off private interpretation Anything that comes from America is questionable Once a Protestant it is very difficult to come out of it in spirit, but the Bible does say "Come out of her"
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Proverbs 4:4-9 Living Bible 4 He told me never to forget his words. “If you follow them,” he said, “you will have a long and happy life. 5 Learn to be wise,” he said, “and develop good judgment and common sense! I cannot overemphasize this point.”[a] 6 Cling to wisdom-she will protect you. Love her-she will guard you. 7 Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do! And with your wisdom, develop common sense and good judgment. 8-9 If you exalt wisdom, she will exalt you. Hold her fast, and she will lead you to great honor; she will place a beautiful crown upon your head. Read full chapter Footnotes Proverbs 4:5 I cannot overemphasize this point, literally, “Forget not nor turn from the words of my mouth.” [36:2] And the Quran that is full of wisdom.
The Qur'an is not full of wisdom but instead full of Satanic verses that Allah had to cancel out since Satan was able to trick Muhammed into adding them. We don't even have any guarantee that Allah actually canceled out those verses since it could just as easily have been Satan adding that verse to make us lower our guards and trust the foolish Qur'an. Allah is a weak god, Muhammed is a false prophet who fabricated verses, and Satan is the master of both of them. Do some research on the Qur'an and your "prophet" he is not a servant of God, that much we can be sure of.
FSR was at the least a type of genius and like us all a flawed human being.. Sadly his acolytes have fetishized his persona and thus uncritically addopted all his teachings . His book ' The Soul After Death' showed a willful manipulation of facts and his sad promotion of ancient occult beliefs positing them as traditionally Orthodox is deluded and dishonest
Picture in your mind then the scandal of Saint Paul who zealously had Christians murdered, who became one of them...and even a leader of them, and a saint, whose letters were set into the canon of the Bible. Or have you read about Saint Mary of Egypt?
If you are willfully ignorant of the Word of God, do not speak on it. God can use and change anyone according to his will. As a fellow Christian, it reminds us about the life of Saint Paul and his sin of murdering many Christians yet, and still God took him as a servant and made him a minister to the people. Fr. Seraphim repented of his sin of homosexuality and if you simply did a quick Google search or look on Wikipedia, you would know that he was ashamed of his past sins and did those things as an unbeliever and a lost man. Let us not be quick judge our brothers and sisters of past sins which God hath forgiven while our own sins remain countless. Rather, judge, rebuke, and reprove each other while we are in the body of Christ and error in our ways. Finally, let us lift each other up in love and hold our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to high standards while continually searching our own hearts for any evil desire, asking our Lord to remove those things, and impute righteousness and faith that we may endure till the end and be saved. Amen☦️.
Evil and sin are a privation of good and no man is made with any sin. No matter how much people today identify with their sins, it's not a part of anyone's nature. People are more than their temptations, from which God can and does save us
9 💔 31 They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords,* instead of GOD. Others deified the Messiah, son of Mary. They were all commanded to worship only one god. There is no god except He. Be He glorified, high above having any partners. I'm leaving at minute marker [28:25] Soon, one of the two women approached him, shyly, and said, "My father invites you to pay you for watering for us." When he met him, and told him his story, he said, "Have no fear. You have been saved from the oppressive people." ⚜ *Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.* ⚜ Matthew 5:3 6 And how they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the reserved pews in the #synagogue (#temples #mosque #church)! MATTHEW 23 7 How they enjoy the deference paid them on the streets and to be called '#Rabbi' and 'Master'! 8 Don't ever let anyone call you that. 🔥 For *only God is your Rabbi* and all of *you* are on the 🏗🧱 *same level, as brothers* 🧱🏗 💣💒💣 9 And don't address anyone here on *#earth* as *'**#Father**,'* for only God in heaven should be addressed like that. 💣💒💣 MATTHEW 23:10 And don't be called *'**#Master**,'* for only one is your master, 🤜🔥💩 *even the Messiah* 💩🔥 🤛
You just heard a saint..
He was my uncles spiritual father. Amazing man
@@MrMatt531 Lucky him
Truly he has risen!
😍😍😍😍
@@MrMatt531seraphim Rose will be canonized and also my spiritual fathers grand elder, elder amilianos god willing ☦️
What an extraordinary blessing it is to be able to hear Fr. Seraphims voice. Thank you. 🙏☦️
No problem. God bless.
Hi! You are very blessed you Americans, that you have between you fr. Seraphim Rose! I'm from one country who brought many saints, Greece! But fr. Seraphim Rose stills surprise me with his individual life and theology. For me he was the trigger to write a magazine about end of times. God bless you all!
Αγιος΄΄😇Τις πρεσβειες του να εχουμε και την ευλογια του..!!!
I returned to Orthodoxy after reading this book.
where were you before, if I may ask?
My spiritual great grand father
That is wonderful!
What is your lineage, if I may ask?
That's so amazing
Glory to God for illuminating Fr. Seraphim 🙏🏻☦️♥️
Blessed Seraphim pray for us!
Thank you for providing this. God bless!
God bless you too!
Thank you for this video and the chance to hear the voice of Father Serafim, God bless you all!
Its not a problem. Thank you.
Absolute gold. Thanks for sharing! 😊🙏
No problem at all.
Thank you Brother in Christ ☦️☦️☦️
Lord have mercy. That’s a good noise suppression algorithm
Liked and subscribed. Starting at about 8:20 an echo starts but it goes away by 8:45. I’m so glad to have found your channel! thanks so much 🙏🏻☦️
No problem. Yes, unfortunately that echo is in the original recording and the noise suppression algorithm cannot fix it.
Thank you Fr. Seraphim.
I enjoyed listening to this recording. Sounds like Fr. Seraphim Rose would have found the truth no matter where he was living in the world while he was learning more about the word.
Thank you for the comment. God bless.
He was obviously dedicated to the truth seeking from early days, but he maitand until he really found it. He was not fooled by the false spiritual teachings , which provided comfort and often pleasures. Seems to me that after he found the truth, the truth assured him in so many ways. Than he could not stay silent and started sharing his path to the truth and what he became was living proof... thousands around him will be saved. God have mercy on us. Thank you.
God blessed you.Thank for a holy gift.Father Seraphim thank you.
Thankyou for the kind comments.
My enlgish is not good but my heart saw Father Seraphim Rose .My holy father told me for father Seraphim and i read all the books.Father Seraphim is and will be in eternity a precusor of Holly Spirit.Father Seraphim is alive.When you need him just call him.Say Father Seraphim .....thakn you brothers and sisters for listening me.In a big problem father Seraphim was beside me.God blessed you all.All together for the big journey to heaven.
Thank you! I made sure to archive these.
Спасибо Отец! Господи Помилуй
Thank you!
5:52 Fr Seraphim knew students, to come to the fullness of Truth, had to have something deep happen within them.
7:32 Awaken people to Jesus Christ ☦️
8:34
8:56 Without a knowledge of Golgotha and The Cross ☦️ one could never come to a real knowledge of Christ, The Incarnate God ☦️
9:11 Spiritual Battleground where the soul becomes purified through suffering. ☦️
11:06 Reading 📖
12:06
13:05
13:24 Orthodox Literature 📖☦️
14:40 Zeal for Reclusion, against the abbot’s wishes. Falling into deception.
15:37 The Soul Destroying Snake 🐍 and a Demon in the form of an angel 👼 😈
16:57 “Worldly people, and even monks without spiritual discernment, are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites, and those who are in demonic delusion.”
17:34 The Fathers of The Kiev Caves drove the devil from Nicetas of Novograd.
18:10 Restoration of Nicetas of Novograd
18:32 How can a religious seeker avoid traps and deceptions?
+ *be in the religious search, not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake of Truth.*
22:31 Miracles help one’s faith, but are not the right reason to believe in Christianity
25:17 It’s something in the heart ❤️ ❤️🔥
25:51 The Heart is Changed ❤️❤️🔥
30:06 God’s Revelation is given to a Loving Heart ❤️🔥
31:28 God sometimes has to breakdown and humble the heart, to make it perceptive 💔❤️🩹❤️🔥
31:51 Cold Calculation🥶
- taking advantage of other people through charlitanism.
33:08 “Suffering Orthodoxy.” ☦️
34:18 Something goes along that helps to receive God’s Revelation☦️❤️
36:25 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 📖☦️
40:46 How a human being becomes evil and how a human being becomes good. 😈❤😇
42:02 Suffering is the reality of the human condition. ☦️❤️
42:21 Yuri Mashkov’s Life
44:20 My life is a drop in the ocean 🌊
45:17 Education in The Soviet Union.
55:36 The Holy Spirit
59:59 Humbling Yourself (as well as being humbled by others)
1:03:55 Christ ☦️❤️🔥 Eternal Life In The Kingdom of Heaven.
Thank you for doing this. I was hoping someone would eventually. Subscribed
No problem at all. God bless you.
Comment to self: 26 minutes
God bless :)
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you
No problem 👍
Beginning of lecture: 11:05
Thank you! And I’d add that the intro is still powerful. Listening rn and it’s still a moving story and description
@@MinnesotanMysticism Yes, I agree. The intro is good. Thanks be to God =)
I wish that the people I actually met in Eastern Orthodoxy were like Seraphim Rose when I was EO.
Sad to admit but we're all very spiritually weak these days, even in the monasteries.
You apostatized from Christ?
@@diegobarragan4904 I’m a Christian.
Good advice
Marvelous
There are quite a few spots where the recording echoes and glitches then returns to normal.
Don't you think that for such a bad sound, subtitles are a must?
Where can we find the original recordings? I want to find that recording at the end where Fr. Seraphim is chanting Christ is Risen!
Who wrote the original Introduction though? Was there one? Saint Herman's Monastery has falsified written material before. How do we know that Fr. Seraphim would have endorsed Fr. Damascene writing an Introduction?
HEY OH ❤
In my experience with suffering and despair, if you endure long enough, the mind will invent a way to find meaning. I came to this idea before hearing convincing arguments for Christian faith, so afterwards, I cannot be convinced that whatever faith I might feel is not some insanity invented by my mind in order to avoid despair. I do have what I consider to be reasonable and meaningful ideas of God, which are not dependent on any religious tradition (although they are informed by religious traditions), but I cannot prove that any of them are right. I just like to imagine them and live according to them, because that seems like the most reasonable thing to do.
When it comes to matters of preference (such as "I like vanilla"), believing a thing makes it true. So, it seems to me to be within my power to invent whatever meaning I like, and so long as it is not demonstrably in contradiction with sensory evidence or with logic, no one has the power to tell me that I'm wrong. I could assert, for instance, "That is a beautiful sky. Seeing this alone has made the day worth it," and if I believe it, it becomes true, and I do not need unverifiable supernatural claims as a foundation. Having a supernatural base for a system of values is helpful for unifying one's thoughts into a system, and I speculate on this, as I said, but I can prove only very little.
I do not believe anything with certainty that I can't verify myself, because most people who have ever lived (including Christians) have been liars. So, I will not believe the gospel the same way as I believe that I am sitting here typing on my keyboard, until I see some kind of comprehensible miracle or another pointing in the direction of a particular religious doctrine.
Knowledge about god doesn't exist. God is the unknown. All so called saints have no knowledge about god too. They only repeat what they have read and heard from others. They have only neurotic second-hand shit book knowledge. First of must all religious preachers learn to have a mind of its own.
Who are you? Everything you know and have came from somewhere else. Why not be thankful?
Faith is a question of will. Give it up and rest on God, or keep it and rest on yourself. Again, what are you really worth?
Professing themselves wise, they became fools.
You cannot find God by mind, only by heart... But since you are not willing to deliver your life to His hands, my words have no meaning to you.
Why are you doing here then ??? Despite the hardness of your heart and the rigidity of your self will, the hungery and despite soul of yours led you here. Wake up before it’s too late.
GOD REVELATION IN IN IN THE HUMAN HEART!
This is not a story (to the human heart) But Act of God IN the human heart!
I suggest slowing down the speed a notch, his words need to settle in the heart and be pondered ..... (was he a fast speaker??)
You can play it on 0.75 playback speed in the settings (cog icon in the top right of the video)
Hard to understand the second voice ! 😢
Matthew 22:36 “Sir, which is the most important command in the laws of Moses?”
37 Jesus replied, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Is any Orthodox Christian reading this question 100% convinced that the Eastern Orthodox church is the true church, or are you just operating off of an educated guess? If you are 100% convinced, how does someone become that way? I'm too dumb for all the really deep, back-and-forth arguments. Is there a prayer I can say or a simple book from the Holy Fathers that will 100% convince me BEFORE joining a church? I want to know the truth but am too dumb to figure it out with my intellect. When I say 100% convinced, I mean that you know it as well as you know that you're conscious.
Pray about it...the Jesus Prayer specifically is great.
@@Mewz123 Thanks.
@@Unseen.Warfare Thank you. That seems like good information. I appreciate it.
@@Unseen.Warfare That's cool. I would like to visit a monastery. Did you join the Greek Orthodox church?
I have a few more questions.
Would you say you are 100% convinced that Christianity is true and that Eastern Orthodoxy is true, or are you just 95% convinced or something? Do you have any doubt?
If you aren't 100% convinced, do you think it is possible to be 100% convinced, or is that a silly standard?
Regarding the prophets and apostles, I have a few questions. Do you completely trust that the prophecies from the prophets regarding Jesus are valid? Do you completely trust that the apostles were capable of understanding the meaning of the prophecies and capable of determining that Jesus fulfilled them? I think that Jesus fulfilling the prophecies is the most important thing when it comes to proving that He's God. The miracles He did are important, but, in my opinion, they, on their own, don't definitively prove He's God. They are just strong suggestions that He's God.
I could be wrong about this though. Is there some point in the Old Testament where definitive proof is offered that certain miracles are from God? Did the prophets lay out a criteria? That all may not be necessary though because you have the ultimate prophet Jesus telling you that His miracles are from God, and it appears that Jesus proved He was a prophet after the things he foretold came to pass (Him rising from the grave, the temple being destroyed, what other prophecies did He make?). What do you think of the prophecy He made where He said that all of those things regarding the end of world would come to pass in "this generation." Was He wrong about that? I think that CS Lewis said He was wrong, but how could Jesus be wrong? Anyway, if Jesus proved He was a prophet, maybe you don't even need the Old Testament prophecies to prove that Jesus was God. You can just listen to Jesus. I don't know if I'm right about any of this.
Thanks again for the information. Have a good one.
@@Unseen.Warfare Thank you for sharing that information. It's compelling. I've thought about this stuff for a while, and it seems like there's always some argument that can be made to undermine whatever argument the Christian is making, and you're left with something that's not definitive. It may most likely be true, but you don't know for sure. That's great that you're 100% convinced. Maybe one day I'll be too. I ask God for this constantly, to tell me what I ought to do, which church I ought to join. Thanks again. Have a good one.
❤🔥
What’s the weird echoing at 8 minutes?
Unfortunately its part of the original recording that cannot be removed through noise filtering.
Christian heritage.
37:00
Rising to the top of a brew of spiritual promiscuity .
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The Catholic and Orthodox churches have historically both claimed exclusivity. In other words, if you're not in the church, you're not saved. But making sense of which church is the right one would require one to be an expert on church history, which does not seem fair. Also, so far as I can tell, the logic used by both sides already by the first church schism was not sound. In other words, I believe that neither the Eastern nor Oriental orthodox were guided by the holy spirit when they split. But even if I'm wrong on that point, that is an issue of misunderstanding arcane Christology and church history from a long time ago, and it does not seem fair to make my salvation dependent on this. I used to be Eastern Orthodox, but now I disbelieve that any church actually speaks for God. The churches that have a sound church tradition have contradictions in their claims, and the churches with looser dogma do not even know what they believe.
Suppose a king wants to send an important message to all his subjects. At first, there is only one message and one interpretation of the message, but the process of copying and relaying the message made a number of contradictory versions by the time it reaches peasants in the most distant parts of the kingdom. Suppose there is one peasant who receives several different versions of the king's order, and he says, "I don't believe that any of you speak for the king. You are trying to deceive me somehow. Go away." If the king passes by this peasant on a journey and learns of this situation, should he punish the peasant?
How could 4 (patriarchates) separate from 1? It surely is 1 separated from 4. I pray those who are in anathema return home to the true faith ☦️
But suppose the king guaranteed that at least one copy would be the true one and that he would help whoever asked him to find it? Isn't this what we find in the Gospels? As for those outside of the Church, several of our saints have said that those who have faith in the Trinity and believe in the incarnation of Christ and are not willing heretics are not totally cut off from God.
Do Not underestimate the power of the Holy Spirit. He guides the Church which is the Bride of Christ. We must pray fast suffer and TRUST. (Total Reliance Upon Saving Truth.) Jesus Christ I TRUST in YOU.
This is incorrect- The EO church states they do not claim to know who is going to heaven, and do not claim that you have to be EO to get there. Of course they believe theirs is the true teaching (would be ridiculous and illogical if they taught a teaching they didn’t know was true or not) but that shouldn’t be confused with the status of souls outside of Orthodoxy. There are other ways to have knowledge of Truth besides researching history- I know many converts who were not compelled by research but by experience. But if history matters to you, the information is there. May God bless and guide you I pray!
@@arkenjoan2220 I haven't done the research thoroughly myself, but I have heard that there was no deviation from the claim to exclusivity within the Orthodox Church until the 19th century. That's what, "extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" originally meant. They were very clear that anathema was equal to damnation.
I have heard that in the Synod of Jerusalem in 1672, they said that you aren't even a Christian if you aren't under an Orthodox Bishop.
If Orthodox church domes look like ice cream cones, his beard, with all due respect looks like holy icicles 😂
Is this supposed to be his voice? Is it recreated using AI?
Neither one. You're hearing the voice of the human narrator reading from Fr. Seraphim's book
Correction: I made my comment just moments before the audio turned into FSR's actual voice!
The revelation of God comes through the revelation of his prophecies ( the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy) not by giving revelations to somebody's heart Prophecy is not off private interpretation Anything that comes from America is questionable
Once a Protestant it is very difficult to come out of it in spirit, but the Bible does say "Come out of her"
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
A crass commercial fro some kind of widget while this great man was speaking was jarring and an insult to His Word.
You are selling God’s message for shekels. And that is disgraceful
Proverbs 4:4-9 Living Bible
4 He told me never to forget his words. “If you follow them,” he said, “you will have a long and happy life. 5 Learn to be wise,” he said, “and develop good judgment and common sense! I cannot overemphasize this point.”[a] 6 Cling to wisdom-she will protect you. Love her-she will guard you.
7 Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do! And with your wisdom, develop common sense and good judgment. 8-9 If you exalt wisdom, she will exalt you. Hold her fast, and she will lead you to great honor; she will place a beautiful crown upon your head.
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Proverbs 4:5 I cannot overemphasize this point, literally, “Forget not nor turn from the words of my mouth.”
[36:2] And the Quran that is full of wisdom.
The Qur'an is not full of wisdom but instead full of Satanic verses that Allah had to cancel out since Satan was able to trick Muhammed into adding them. We don't even have any guarantee that Allah actually canceled out those verses since it could just as easily have been Satan adding that verse to make us lower our guards and trust the foolish Qur'an. Allah is a weak god, Muhammed is a false prophet who fabricated verses, and Satan is the master of both of them. Do some research on the Qur'an and your "prophet" he is not a servant of God, that much we can be sure of.
FSR was at the least a type of genius and like us all a flawed human being.. Sadly his acolytes have fetishized his persona and thus uncritically addopted all his teachings . His book ' The Soul After Death' showed a willful manipulation of facts and his sad promotion of ancient occult beliefs positing them as traditionally Orthodox is deluded and dishonest
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This guy was gay and can u be a priest and be gay it a sin
Picture in your mind then the scandal of Saint Paul who zealously had Christians murdered, who became one of them...and even a leader of them, and a saint, whose letters were set into the canon of the Bible. Or have you read about Saint Mary of Egypt?
By repentance and conversion
If you are willfully ignorant of the Word of God, do not speak on it. God can use and change anyone according to his will. As a fellow Christian, it reminds us about the life of Saint Paul and his sin of murdering many Christians yet, and still God took him as a servant and made him a minister to the people. Fr. Seraphim repented of his sin of homosexuality and if you simply did a quick Google search or look on Wikipedia, you would know that he was ashamed of his past sins and did those things as an unbeliever and a lost man.
Let us not be quick judge our brothers and sisters of past sins which God hath forgiven while our own sins remain countless. Rather, judge, rebuke, and reprove each other while we are in the body of Christ and error in our ways. Finally, let us lift each other up in love and hold our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to high standards while continually searching our own hearts for any evil desire, asking our Lord to remove those things, and impute righteousness and faith that we may endure till the end and be saved. Amen☦️.
Being gay is not a sin, but the act. He was a monk and avoided sin propably 100x better than we normies.
Evil and sin are a privation of good and no man is made with any sin. No matter how much people today identify with their sins, it's not a part of anyone's nature. People are more than their temptations, from which God can and does save us
9 💔 31 They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords,* instead of GOD. Others deified the Messiah, son of Mary. They were all commanded to worship only one god. There is no god except He. Be He glorified, high above having any partners.
I'm leaving at minute marker [28:25] Soon, one of the two women approached him, shyly, and said, "My father invites you to pay you for watering for us." When he met him, and told him his story, he said, "Have no fear. You have been saved from the oppressive people."
⚜ *Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.* ⚜ Matthew 5:3
6 And how they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the reserved pews in the #synagogue (#temples #mosque #church)!
MATTHEW 23
7 How they enjoy the deference paid them on the streets and to be called '#Rabbi' and 'Master'!
8 Don't ever let anyone call you that. 🔥 For *only God is your Rabbi* and all of *you* are on the
🏗🧱 *same level, as brothers* 🧱🏗
💣💒💣 9 And don't address anyone here on *#earth* as *'**#Father**,'* for only God in heaven should be addressed like that. 💣💒💣
MATTHEW 23:10 And don't be called *'**#Master**,'* for only one is your master,
🤜🔥💩 *even the Messiah* 💩🔥 🤛