God is Love, and only Love!!!
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God is Love, and only Love!!! This is the only axiom-fact of Orthodox Dogmatics (everything else ‘derives’ from it – see above)! But, unfortunately, almost no one wants (better to say: cannot – because does not have knowledge, only fantasies, and: it seems to me…) to build on this axiom a theoretical model of reality (dogmatic theology). Only those who have lived Reality, knew (even for a moment) God, cannot not put at the head (cornerstone) of the foundation – Love. Therefore, any teaching and theory (of Dogmatics), which try to tell ‘how it is’ (directly indicate reality) and at the same time are not ‘built’ (not based) on the fact-axiom (hypostatic principle) ‘God is Love, and only Love’ – are not a revelation of the Church experience of Reality, no matter how it may call itself: and Orthodox, and most canonical, and most gracious…, how many quotes from the Bible and Holy Fathers there may be…, how many blessings (hierarchs) and approving reviews – it is a creation of fantasy of the carnal mind, paganism, religiosity, but by no means the knowledge of God, life in the Holy Spirit. Because all who have entered into the New Covenant with God, affirmed
– God is Love, and only Love! (About false teachings, false dogmatics we talked in Part I. There we talked about hypostasis, personality. And since we agreed that Personality=Love, then we said the same, just differently).
This paragraph can be not read – it is my heartfelt pain, which I wrote for myself:
(A similar situation with organizations, because calling them churches does not turn the language, which call themselves Orthodox, most gracious, most canonical, their center – the Hundredth Rome, and do not have fruits of love and do not repent that they do not have truthfulness, truthfulness, because they walk in the darkness of pride – these are satanic organizations – such that crucify Jesus Christ in the name of canons invented by them or interpreted in their own way, with which they mask their malice and satanic hatred. Not all in that organization are such: there are saints and wise, who formally belong to it (and really to the Church, but for the sake of mission become all things to all people – become members of this organization, though it is not their way, to save at least some), to make it easier to bring the Gospel to people (who carry the mission of prophets on this earth; but no one hears them, – those prophets, given to this organization by God, – as soon as they call for repentance, they immediately start to be persecuted, hunted, slandered…), but the majority, unfortunately, are lost and do evil, perform the works of their father – the devil. Those who are attentive understand what I am talking about, and what example can be given: the center in Russia, and a large branch in Ukraine – guess the name yourself…).
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Religion is the process of reunification (restoration of the connection, lost as a result of the fall, by which man ‘tore’ himself away from God, destroying unity) with God. And the Church is unity with God, the state of deification. Therefore, it is said that the Lord abolished religion in the New Covenant and founded the Church. Therefore, one who enters into the New Covenant with God – enters into the Church, not into religion, becomes a church person, not a religious person. God has entered into the New Covenant with everyone, but so far not everyone (better to say – a few) have entered into the New Covenant with God. We, having lost the understanding ‘God is Love’, have made from the Church (worship of God in Spirit and Truth) temple piety, one of the religions, – so, ‘the best’, ‘the newest’… but religion!? There can be no place for religion in the New Covenant – because the Goal (Purpose) is achieved! Religions exist and will exist until the end of this age, until everyone enters into the New Covenant. The completion of each religion – Christ (hypostatic union of man with God).
The experience ‘God is Love’ – is the result of the completeness of deification, bringing everything to fullness (and seeing the irreversible process of revealing this fullness in everything), therefore no religion in principle can have this teaching (which would be its knowledge), and man cannot invent this teaching. (Indeed, in no religion, including the Old Testament, there is this teaching; at most, God is a just judge: punishes for sins, rewards for good, and to be saved, it is necessary to fulfill all the prescriptions of this or that religion; take for example: Sabbath in the Old
Testament in the interpretation of the Pharisees. In the Church everything is the opposite and this ‘opposite’ is contained in the words ‘God is Love’). Religions tell how to reunite with God, and Christianity tells how to be in union with God, how to live in Christ (hypostatic union of God and Man). Therefore, in the New Testament there is one single ‘commandment’ – to abide in Jesus Christ! Where there are commandments (in the plural) – there is the realm of religiosity, Old Testament.