A member of the Church, regardless of who they are (whatever service they perform within the Body of the Church) — bishop, cleric, or “layperson” — cannot tolerate even the shadow of fallacy, relativism, or duplicity in matters of faith (doctrinal assertion of Truth). If they observe anywhere in the world two opposing views disputing the dignity of the true dogma of the Church, they have no right to remain indifferent, seeking justification for their cowardice in the “transcendent” and “ineffable” nature of Truth, nor should they transfer all responsibility for the unity of Truth to others — some future church council, bishops, or even doctors of theology. A member of the Church — “layperson” or steward (cleric) — will never fall into heresy if they adhere to three conditions:
1. The condition of preserving local tradition, without which the grace they receive remains idle (ineffective), and they themselves remain worthless, unworthy members of the Body of the Church.
2. The second condition is maintaining the complete freedom of the Church concerning political, ethnic, social, and cultural issues; non-compliance with this condition leads to schism, that is, semi-existence, existence akin to the shadow of the Church.
3. The third condition for the sons and daughters of the Church, who are called to defend the Truth (more precisely — the path to knowing the Truth), who have clothed themselves in Christ in baptism and received the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in chrismation, is the condition of maintaining purity of heart, as expressed by St. Basil the Great, that is, absolute dispassion and rejection of any empty (idle) curiosity; the desire to accept the true teaching not for personal gain or to create some absolute concept of the visible and invisible world with its help, but for the sole purpose of serving in the present epoch (here and now), considering the needs of today, the work of the Church — salvation and divinization, to which She continually calls the world, always aligning this path to uncreated and eternal grace with the changing conditions of historical epochs of the created and temporary world. Without this condition, any theology tends to become philosophical gnosis (knowledge), pushing its creators to recognize the relative nature of the Church’s dogma, or to declare that only they possess the fullness of Revelation. In both cases, it is heresy, that is, spiritual death outside the Church, from which may the Lord protect and preserve His faithful, who adhere to these three conditions, which safeguard against any heretical temptation.
The faithful of the UOC-KP do not observe any of these three conditions, as we substantiate in this section of the “dismantling” of heretical idols. The simplest person in the church, even without special skills, can at least see (if they want to) the complete neglect of the second condition in the UOC-KP, or rather, not just neglect, but encouragement to violate it… Fire! Disaster! Heresy!
Heresy is a very, very dangerous disease! It is the diseased state of a member in the body, where it needs to be amputated, anathematized, excommunicated from the Eucharist. An eye, hand, foot that is in heresy (in a state of alienation from the body, in a state of gangrene — falling away from the truth, conscious rejection of the truth, inability to hear and accept (live) the truth-Eucharist) must be cut off from the body (for the healing of both the amputated organ and the body), better to enter the Kingdom of God without an eye, without a hand than for the whole body to be cast into the hell of heresy, self-centeredness, decay, separation, selfishness… And the severed organs are entrusted to God’s will, for the exhaustion of the heretical flesh, so that the spirit-hypostasis may be saved, healed, and once again organically integrated through repentance into the Body! Anathema is therapy, not murder, and since it is done in Love, it is done with the thought of saving both the body and the diseased organ!
There can be no compromise with heresy. Heresy is a sin in which a person does not want to repent, but on the contrary, justifies their sinful life and presents it as normal, ecclesiastical, orthodox.
Heresy is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, a way of life diametrically opposed to the Eucharistic life of the Body of Christ, it is alienation from the Body. Heresy is legitimized sin, always an attempt to justify lawlessness, to present a sinful, godless life as one that is in accordance with God’s Commandments, as the orthodox teaching of the Church of Christ!? “This is what the church teaches,” say heretics, summing up every postulate-dogma of their ideology, justifying (instead of repenting!) their sinful, blasphemous heretical life, presenting their heresy (by their life and word about this life, that is, teaching) as catholic truth. Heresy is the absolutization of some fragment, segment, part of reality as a whole (catholic). Where sin is called sin — there is human weakness; the law operates there: the first to cast a stone at the sinner if you are without sin; the sin that is recognized as sin, a wound, an illness, is attempted (at least desired) to be treated, at least seen and recognized as a disaster. And where sin is not considered sin, but on the contrary, is presented as correct, normal life in truth (the final instance, which is not subject to dispute-doubt), there is a catastrophe-heresy (blasphemy against the Holy Spirit). Such sin (heresy) isolates from the Church (Eucharist — Life in the Holy Spirit). Because in the sin that is presented as truth, there is no repentance, and in this case, it cannot be forgiven (healed) until there is repentance. Heresy is Sodom and Gomorrah, it is legitimized fornication (in all aspects of delusion (straying)).