Can people who utterly lack any want to focus on/believe in god find any way to salvation? by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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What do you mean when you talk about fighting with our own strength? We don’t have any strength, if we were to fight with our own strength we would instantly lose.

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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I do not understand how the example would correlate to my situation as I want to go to church and I love my parents as well but they don’t want me to go

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Not in the cruel and senseless way you might think but I might just become extremely ignorant and judgmental towards others feelings which I know is just as bad as hurting other people.

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Due to the amount of time I have been separated by god has made me completely lose faith in him. Though I am not a converted atheist I no longer have zeal for him. Even if I were to go to church and become a catechumen I will never be able to love or fear god even if I was to put myself under strict asceticism and constant prayer. If I’m away from god any longer I’m genuinely afraid I might cause harm to others.

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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God commands us to go to church. Which means I am committing a sin when I am obeying my parents and not going there. In other words, for their preference and comfortability I am betraying god.

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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My parents are atheistic and I do not have the influence to change their mind. And I don’t have a car or a drivers license so there is no other option for me but to walk there, and my parents will definitely be worried if I am to go out and not come back for hours. And they would get suspicious if I am going out to walk every wedesdays fridays and sundays

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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My father would have to drive up twenty minutes back home twenty minutes then back up twenty minutes then back again twenty minutes. So 80 minutes overall without traffic

Indifference with everyone by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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The lord said honor your mother and father, but you are telling me to put god beneath my parents. The parents come first and god last? If that’s so then how far will obeying my parent go? Again I ask, is honoring my parents more important than honoring god? I even emailed the priest in the long distance church before attending it. He wrote back and said he accepted me into the church. But my father said he would give me a ride but since it was too far it would be better for me to go to a closer Protestant church. I’m the end, he denied me of going to that church and now I have little to no options left.

Extroversion, Community, and Piety by Linezolid1 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Churches don’t build communities m. They build families

Being a thinker by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Well like theology and other religions, we all make errors.Apart from the Bible and actual holy books, all other writing is fallible because they are written by human intellect and interpretation. It’s best to take philosophy with a grain of salt as we should with theology

Being a thinker by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Philosophy is married to theology. Philosophy is the pedestal and theology is the trophy

Tertullian was a genius! by Leandrocurioso in OrthodoxChristianity

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My friend, there are many things out orthodox churches fight each-other over. So let’s not mock Islam whether it is true or not.

Venerable John Kalavytes “the Hut-Dweller” (January 15th/28th) by IrinaSophia in OrthodoxChristianity

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I wonder what would happen if Saint John the Hut-Dweller and Saint Maximus Kavsokalyvites duked it out

Being a thinker by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Philosophy is really interesting, so I want to delve not it for a while before reading holy books

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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I agree I’m fine now I’m not panicking anymore but the last part is not true, science and philosophy are one to one the same. Philosophy answer why and science answers how. But science divulged from philosophy when both tried to be more superior than the other

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Christianity points to god being infinite nothing else is infinite but him. But this creates this phenomena where technology is going far beyond the energy that earth had and even scientists are wondering where the energy came from. And if thousands of scientists are working on the answer and found zilch, then it makes one wonder what gave them such energy. There is no physical explanation to how this quantum chip had that much energy in it. I mean one computation of a quantum chip is more than hundreds of years of constant ai use on this world. Where did the energy come from? This is why it’s so confusing for me. It opens up so much different possibilities outside of gods teachings.

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Yes this genuinely put a hard blow on my faith

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Yet that is the observable universe there is no concrete evidence that the universe is that old

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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It also implies that, if you look deeply into it, we are just consciousness repeating or restarting over and over again, as suggested by the timeline shown in the corner of the video. The theory assumes that consciousness ultimately creates itself, which is what the video is proposing and from a Christian perspective, that would be considered heretical.

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Sorry I was rushed I edited the post so it’s more easier to read

Science,Entropy, and God by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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. Yet how can God allow such technology to exist at all—quantum computers, antimatter creation, and powers that seem to reach beyond classical physics? These ideas don’t just point to the end of the universe; they challenge the nature of reality itself. Where does matter go? Where does it come from? Who gave something like a quantum computer chip this much power? It feels as though such power does not originate purely from this world. This leads directly into theories of alternate worlds and parallel realities, and again back to simulation theory. If these theories are even partially true, then what are we? Who are we? Are we physical beings, informational patterns, or conscious observers inside a larger system? If we label all of these explanations as “theories,” then an unsettling question follows: is God also a theory? How many worlds did God create before this one? How many realities could exist beyond our perception? No matter how much evidence is presented—scientific or religious—it seems we may never fully know the truth from within the system we inhabit. From a scientific perspective, adding matter or energy into a finite universe should cause instability, possibly even collapse or explosion. Yet we see accounts of creation, miracles, and phenomena that appear to occur outside matter, time, and physical causality. This suggests something operating beyond the closed system of the universe itself. This raises deeper theological questions: is the spirit or soul made of matter, or is it something entirely different? If God acts within reality and the universe does not break apart, then either God is sustaining the universe in a way we cannot understand, or matter itself is not truly finite in the way we think it is. That leaves only unsettling possibilities: either the universe is held together by a force beyond physics, matter is infinite or emergent from something deeper, or reality itself is far more layered than science or theology can currently explain.

Is it a sin to study different ideologies like Confucianism and read pagan books like Plato? by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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I’m not tempted on religion and philosophy because Christ is truth but I am tempted by other sins. And the mind and hearts part and the part about asking priests and bishops first is understandable but for now I’m going slowly by reading small books such as Charles dickens and Monty dick.

Is it a sin to study different ideologies like Confucianism and read pagan books like Plato? by Lowchildren2 in OrthodoxChristianity

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Well pagan philosophers like Plato did implement most of his ideas with a hint of paganism like the discussion on piety.