Therefore, whether there is a contradiction in the book or not – this can only be known from the author (what exactly he wanted to say in each specific place of the book with this or that word, phrase)!!! Although formally (by the letter, regardless of the context; but each word acquires a specific meaning, load in a specific context – according to the laws of formal logic and common sense) it may seem that there is! “Let a woman in the church prophesy with her head covered” and “let a woman keep silence in the church”! So how is it – “speak” or “keep silence”?! Therefore, Father Volodymyr knows what he writes in each specific context, in each specific given coordinate system!!! By the way, he writes about this in part I, pp. 310-311: “It may seem that in previous chapters we said one thing, and now the diametrical opposite. We must not forget that in different coordinate systems the same reality will be described differently, and sometimes in diametrically opposite forms from the point of view of one particular coordinate system… Therefore, we must always agree on which coordinate system we are describing the reality, and, of course, their beginning. In one coordinate system, a word may have one meaning, and in another – diametrically opposite! Therefore, we must be very careful – so that there are no misunderstandings somewhere…”. Therefore, only the author knows what he writes in his book (what he wanted to say, to which reality he pointed), and those who learned from him! Father Volodymyr often reminds of this in his books!!! This is an elementary fact, which, unfortunately, you, the KPBA professors, do not know!
And by the way, let me remind the KPBA professors once again, that borscht, vinaigrette or Olivier are not heresy in cooking, but exquisite dishes, which are often part of major celebrations! This is “great consolation to the brethren!” And those who eat nothing but milk diluted with water (dry, often frankly heretical scholasticism), and cannot, say that everything that is not scholastic milk is heresy!?
You often say that Scripture is the main criterion of truth! And without Scripture, nothing! This is funny to hear, and even somehow inconvenient to discuss this (heretical) Protestantism (“Sola Scriptura” – only Scripture, say Protestants), but I will say something. The Reverend Silouan of Athos says that if for some reason all the Scriptures of the Church disappeared, it would not be a disaster for the Church – she would write the Gospel again, because she herself is the Gospel, the Eucharist, the Kingdom of God; Christians would again write icons (in words, paints, music, architecture, etc.) of God-seeing (the experience of seeing Christ Risen)! And you say: only Scripture, Holy Fathers, Council decisions!? We will give a few elementary truths that we learned from Father Volodymyr, and which, unfortunately, are hidden behind seven seals of ignorance from the KPBA professors:
For Christians, the authority is not the Most Holy Books (not the most holy letter!), but the Author (the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth) of these Books – Christ Risen, Alive in the Church forever and ever! Therefore, Fr. Volodymyr speaks of a Living Eucharistic Parish, not of a dead parish where parishioners read the Books and each understands them in his own way, and in the Parish-Eucharist, the parishioner does not read books about Christ, but communicates in the Holy Spirit with the Living Christ, Who is with us forever! Therefore, for the Church (for Christians), the Holy Scripture (Bible and writings of the Holy Fathers and Mothers) is one of the forms of transmission of the experience of God-seeing, catechizing of the pagan-catechumens and catechumens, but no authority! The authority is the Truth, the Spirit (Holy), not the Most Holy Letter! But the pagans of KPBA have no idea what the Church is and what the form of transmitting the experience of God-seeing is! They need a letter, because they can not repent, be pagans, satanists and “according to Scripture” (by the letter) justify their godlessness, their antichristian spirit and way of life – the synagogue of Satan, and all this is presented as the most holy truth in the last instance, as the purest ecclesiastical life! Holy Scripture – the Bible, the Writings of the Holy Fathers and Mothers, the Creed, the decisions and rules of the Church Councils… – this is all a LETTER that can be filled with any content, spirit: Holy (Christ’s), to fill the letter-form-vessel with Life – the Holy Spirit, or sinful, heretical, satanic, death, the spirit not of Christ-Truth, but of antichrist, heresy, satanism!!! There are countless examples: all “Christian” heresies that have been for the last 1600 years (since the canon of Holy Scripture was formed – 27 books of the New Testament) – all heretics justified their heresies with the texts of the Holy Scripture of the Church! Therefore, the main thing is not the Scriptures (Holy or Most Holy), but the Spirit that the Author – Parish-Eucharist!!! has placed in them.