“The Lord said to the Pharisees and scribes: well did Isaiah prophesy about you, hypocrites, as it is written: these people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me (‘this people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men’ – Isa. 29:13). In vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. For you, laying aside the commandment of God, hold the tradition of men… And He said to them: All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death. But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban (that is, a gift to God) – then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that” (see Mark 7:6-13, Matthew 15:3-9). Do heretics reject the commandment of God to keep their tradition? For example, the commandment of God says, “You shall not kill,” but heretics nullify, reject this commandment of God and claim that Christians (!) can and should kill in war (holy, defensive, etc.), bless Christian soldiers to kill, singing: “There is no greater love than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (we exposed this blasphemy of heretics (modern with tomos) in part III when we proved the theorem: “
Christians do not kill anyone and do not bless killing!”). The commandment of God says: “Teach all nations, and those who believe from all their hearts in Jesus Christ – baptize in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all the commands and precepts of the Lord Jesus Christ,” but heretics rejected this commandment of God and replaced it with their teaching about Sacraments: catechism is not needed, no one catechizes anyone, no one prepares anyone for the Sacraments, personal faith in Jesus Christ is not needed – therefore, heretics baptize children (by the faith of others – so-called godparents), but the Sacrament is performed only under the condition of personal conscious responsible faith-trust! The Eucharist is nullified – no one communes at the liturgy (once or twice a year they approach the chalice), and this by the tradition of the elders in heretics is considered normal, not the commandment of God (we wrote in detail about this catastrophe in the previous Parts).
And so, almost everything (Orthodox faith and practice) among heretics is distorted, perverted, turned into paganism: God’s commandments are violated, nullified, heretically interpreted for the sake of the traditions of the elders, for the sake of their heresies, ideologies, antichrist plans!
“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” Icons (painted, carved) are honored, gilded, decorated with towels, but the living icons – the image of God, the person – are hated, condemned, despised, loathed, killed!? The wooden, metal, stone cross is worshiped, but the person – the living Cross, the neighbor – is crucified, rejected (“Bear one another’s burdens,” “Accept one another, just as Christ also accepted you” – these are the true Crosses that need to be kissed, honored, and worshiped for God’s sake: “He who has seen his neighbor has seen his God”). The Lord Jesus Christ did not command to honor icons (painted, embroidered, carved), relics, temples (buildings, “holy places,” “sanctuaries”) – these are human commandments (religious paganism), but the Lord commanded to love your neighbor – to honor the living image (icon) of God, the living “relics,” the living “temple of God”! Therefore, in the name of the sanctuaries (temples, “holy places,” “holy lands,” relics, etc.), “Christians” hated, killed (with various “crusades,” holy wars) and still hate, kill people, the image of God, Jesus Christ Himself, who identified Himself with every person (“What you did to one of the least of these My brethren, you did to Me”)! God is Love! God allows everything! Therefore, baptized pagans revere before icons, crosses, relics, in temples – but “their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men; but in vain do they worship Me”! Therefore, this too (to honor the images of Jesus Christ and the saints – painted, carved, embroidered icons; the cross of Christ, religious symbols, temples, relics, etc.) should be done, and the most important thing should not be left undone: love God and your neighbor as Jesus Christ, revere before the living image (cross) of God to the glory of God the Father in the name of Jesus Christ for the communion of the Holy Spirit. But now “Orthodox” have nullified the word of God, God’s commandments, and live almost exclusively by the traditions of the elders, drowning in various heresies (see in detail about heresy in part III)!