So, fighting is necessary—it’s like lowering a dangerously high fever (over 40 degrees Celsius) which has become life-threatening (revolutions are also needed for this reason), but they do not cure the disease, only indicate the presence of a deadly disease! People wonder why nothing changes in Ukraine after revolutions (2004, 2013) and it only gets worse! If the disease is not treated, the fever will rise again above forty degrees… God awaits our repentance, not patriotism! Instead, a satanic patriotism emerges—killing one’s own children with one’s own hands and calling oneself Christians at the same time! The merciful Lord awakens the people to repentance! And, unfortunately, there are few who hear this plea of the Merciful God-Trinity, the God of Love!
Let’s suggest to the professor that in the Old Testament there was (and is) Old Testament righteousness, not New Testament holiness in the Holy Spirit, who dwells in the Holy One (that is, the Christian), and not as in the Old Testament—was with the righteous externally (The Lord speaks of the Holy Spirit, whom all flesh shall receive after Pentecost: “He is with you, and will be in you…”)!!! The least in the Kingdom of God is greater than the greatest Old Testament prophet (John the Baptist, as testified by the Church of Christ)! No eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor has it entered the heart of the greatest among the prophets (let alone any Old Testament person!) what the Church of Christ is, who Jesus Christ is (= the Kingdom of God), who the Holy Spirit is… states: “There was Orthodox, dogmatic theology in the Old Testament” – is this a joke, or a jest!? If only it were! In reality, this is the faith of a “Christian” – professor, doctor, and consequently, all (except for a few who follow the Truth) the faithful of the UOC KP (as testified by the synod of the UOC KP to the whole world)! Clearly, no comments are needed! The source of God-knowing is the Eucharist, life in the Holy Spirit (we know Christ by the Holy Spirit!!!), and God-knowing – knowledge of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – became possible only after Pentecost! Before the descent of the Holy Spirit, the apostles, the disciples of Christ (the prophets prophesied about Christ, saw the shadow of the future Kingdom of God, and they (the apostles) were the closest friends of Christ, witnesses of His life, teaching, and miracles! And yet they did not understand anything (the mystery of the God-Man: “we thought that He was the one to redeem Israel (from political slavery), that is, the Messiah…”), they did not understand and did not know (until Pentecost!)! Once again I emphasize: the apostles raised the dead, cast out demons, healed the sick (were miracle workers!!! To such an extent that all the Old Testament prophets “pale in comparison” (see Matt. 10:5-8; Mark 3:13-19; Luke 10:17-18)) and proclaimed the coming of the Kingdom of God (the testimony of which were numerous miracles!), they already saw Christ with their eyes, touched Him with their hands… – and they did not understand anything, they could not grasp anything!!! For example, let’s take the event depicted in the Gospel icons, where Peter confesses Jesus as Lord (the Messiah) in Caesarea Philippi. In the Gospel of Matthew, we read (16:13-23): “Jesus… asked His disciples: Who do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus replied, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.’” So, Peter (a miracle worker!) prophesies, that is, says what the Heavenly Father revealed to him about Jesus Christ, that He is the Messiah, the Son of the living God. So, Peter does not yet know Christ, but the Father pointed out to him that Jesus is the Christ! (“Knowing about something” (rationally) and “knowing something” (existentially, by personal experience) are completely different things! The prophets pointed to the Messiah (John the Baptist even pointed to Christ with his finger), but the apostles knew Jesus as Lord only after Pentecost, only when they were filled with the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist – knowing Christ by the Holy Spirit!!! The Lord “spoke” to the prophets (shared His thoughts with them), and they proclaimed the will of God, which they did not know! Prophecy is only an indication, a sign on the road, but not a symbol of the manifestation-communion of the reality of the Kingdom of God! Christians (members of the Body of Christ) already manifest Christ (not just talk about Christ), already are a symbol, the Eucharist, being the Church of Christ!). So, Peter – a prophet and miracle worker – communicates (learns, being a disciple and follower) with the Word Incarnate Himself, the second Hypostasis of the Holy Trinity, and does not understand anything! He uttered the prophecy (“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”), but he does not understand at all what this prophecy means (what it means: Christ…): “Then Jesus ordered His disciples not to tell anyone that He was the Christ. From that time on, Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and teachers of the law, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. ‘Never, Lord!’ he said. ‘This shall never happen to You!’ Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.’” Just now, the prophet and miracle worker Peter prophesied about the Messiah (proclaimed a revelation from the Father! The Father revealed to Peter that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God!), communicated with God Himself, Jesus Christ – and did not understand anything and did not grasp anything (from the teaching of the Teacher): “this shall never happen to You!” Did the prophets know what they were prophesying about, what they were pointing to?! They did not know and did not understand! Listen to what the evangelist Luke writes in the Acts of the Apostles (in the first chapter): The Lord, after His suffering and Resurrection, appeared to the apostles over a period of forty days and spoke about the Kingdom of God. The Lord speaks to the apostles about the baptism with the Holy Spirit, with which they will be baptized in a few days, and they ask Him, “Lord, are You at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” Christ has already risen, appeared to them for forty days, taught them about the Kingdom of God, and the apostles, as before, still do not understand anything – they ask Christ about the political, earthly kingdom of Israel!? The apostles before Pentecost did not understand anything (nor did they know), but when the Holy Spirit descended upon them, only then did they know the Kingdom of God (recognized Jesus Christ) and began to slowly understand (being in knowing!), what the Kingdom of God is, who Jesus Christ is, what kind of Messiah this is! “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth… He will bring glory to Me by taking from what is Mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is Mine” (see John 16:12-15). Only in the Eucharist are eyes opened to know Christ. This is how I, “on my fingers,” show the level of teaching (stink, scholasticism – that there is no one to even talk to in the KPTA at the rational level! Example – a reviewer – professor, doctor!!!? – no comments needed). Therefore, in the KPTA the Eucharist is not needed to understand the Scriptures, they (the UOC KP) understand the Truth without the Holy Spirit!? Neither life (even elementary moral!), nor teaching (as we demonstrate with these modest comments)! Lord, have mercy! Tell the reviewer (and the professors and “theologians” like him), given his spiritual, intellectual state and level, at least not to disgrace himself and not to disgrace the academy (KPTA, after all, he is a great theologian in the UOC KP, he was entrusted with overseeing the process of teaching theology in the KPTA, the strongest seminary of the UOC KP!?), for the reputation of which he so strongly and zealously cares!… asserts that heresy for the UOC KP is non-Orthodox thinking! (For the completeness of definitions and my own, it is necessary to add words that he probably assumed to be self-evident, namely: heresy is non-Orthodox thinking that is presented as Orthodox thinking; similarly: heresy is not Orthodox (Church, in the Parish-Eucharist, in the Holy Spirit) life, which is presented as Orthodox life, as normal, and not sinful, which needs healing by total repentance… (this is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, because when a person calls sinful, anti-Christian life Christianity, Orthodoxy, Church life, then he does not feel the need for repentance: calling hell (hellish existence) paradise (paradisiacal life), sinful carnal life in shame ful bestial (animal) passions calling the Kingdom of God, the synagogue of Satan calling the Church of Christ – these are examples of heresies (deadly substitutions-delusions)! That is, a deadly poison is labeled as “elixir of happiness-life!”, “guarantee and assurance of longevity and health and happiness!”… By the way we name reality, it does not become more harmful or less harmful in essence, that is, when we call poison “poison, deadly, very dangerous toxin,” it does not lose its properties to kill, that is, when, having drunk poison, whether the person knew it was poison (they were warned about possible lethal consequences of tasting the poison) or not – they will die, if the poison is not removed (if not spit out, not vomited – if it’s just a sip, the beginning of tasting) from the body! The one who knew they drank poison will try to remove from the body exactly this poison that they drank (will repent of non-Orthodox way of life), and the one who drank (and drinks) poison and at the same time believes that it is a drink of happiness and longevity (because it says so on the label, it was advertised to them that way), will be dying, but will seek the cause of dying-suffering anywhere but in the poison, which in their conviction-consciousness is a guarantee of health and happy longevity (how can you forgive a sin that a free being does not repent of?!)! Therefore, heresy is a terrible substitution-delusion: when the good is called “bad,” and the bad is “good,” deadly – “life-giving,” and life-giving – “deadly”; Jesus Christ the Son of God is called the false messiah, and the antichrist – the messiah, etc. In the missionary, catechismal lexicon of the Church there are words: error, to err, sin, to sin, sinner, heresy, heretic… – these are different indications of different states-realities! We all make mistakes (earthborn), we all sin, but not all are heretics! When sin is sin, error is error (when the name-indication “corresponds” to the reality it points to). We use the word “heresy” to point to a substitution-delusion, when, for example, sin (deformity) is called not sin, but the norm, normal state of things, error – truth, satanic egoistic life in isolation and separation – parish-Eucharistic Church catholic life… So, when sin (illness, deformity) is called the norm (and not sin), and sinful (godless, egoistic, anti-Christian) life – Christianity, Orthodoxy (normal life), we in the Church say that this is heresy!). And Orthodox thinking, according to the assertion of heretics-professors of the KPTA, is the thinking of the UOC KP, more precisely the leaders and ideologues of the UOC KP! With this definition of the concept-reality of heresy, he defined the essence of the UOC KP – that it is a synagogue of Satan! I’ll explain “on fingers,” simply! Satan, the devil, is a perfectly Orthodox-thinking being – he knows Orthodox teaching better than all Orthodox theologians combined (in this context, when we talk about Orthodoxy, the word is used in its proper sense (the theoretical edge as an indication of Truth, the path of acquiring the Holy Spirit), as used by the Church of Christ, and not the UOC KP), the devil knows all the Church’s writings by heart and in the originals, which no theologian can boast of, nor all of them combined (many originals are simply lost, and there are hypothetical originals). Satan always says what people want to hear, he never argues (as long as it’s only about teaching or views), always agrees! Satan knows everything, thinks Orthodox, but does nothing, does not live Orthodox, does not pray (and to those who try to do something good (which bears the fruit of humility and leads to the acquisition of the Holy Spirit!) he forbids, variously (by God’s mercy, in the Mystery of God’s providence) hinders!)!!! Therefore, in the UOC KP, Satan is never anathematized!!! Satan in the UOC KP is a permanent member of the synod, a member of the academic council of the KPTA (and other seminaries of the UOC KP), a participant in all conferences, round tables, and all kinds of events and priests’ parades!!! And the first to be anathematized in the UOC KP, is Jesus Christ, and the prophets of Jesus Christ! There is no place in this organization for the Truth, for the Parish-Eucharist – this, for the leaders of the UOC KP, is a terrible heresy! And it is understandable: either the Church of Christ, the Parish-Eucharist, or the synagogue of Satan – there is no third! Either catholic life-communion in Truth and Love, or satanic thinking in egoistic isolation, alienation of all from all (everyone for himself!)! does not care how you live, the main thing is that you “think Orthodox,” that is, as the ideologists of the UOC KP think! Therefore, for Satan, it is not a problem to be a faithful of the UOC KP! But in the Church of Christ there is no place for the devil (until he repents!) – only those who live Orthodox, who love, who partake of the Eucharist – the catholic Life of the Holy Trinity, the marital communion-perichoresis of the members of the Church all with all (“I in You, and You in Me, We in them (created hypostases), and they in Us”)… One more thing: go to any church of the UOC KP and check the parishioners (starting from the priest – by the way, he is also a parishioner, not a parishioner – and ending with baptized infants) for Orthodox thinking!? The result will be shocking – all will turn out to be heretics (whatever we understand by the word “Orthodoxy”: whether the heretical ideology of the leaders and ideologists of the UOC KP, or Orthodoxy), especially the priests, who think they are Orthodox… Faithful of the UOC KP, do not be offended by me – it was not I who called you heretics, but and the leaders of the UOC KP (professors of the KPTA and the synod of the UOC KP)! Now you understand why they (the reviewers and their curators) categorically refuse to give written reviews – officially (the reviewer’s argument: we do not give reviews to avoid promoting the heretical teaching of Andreikiv! Poor thing, forgot that they themselves already gave us a considerable promotion on the UOC KP website and in the newspaper “Voice of Orthodoxy”; here it was necessary to be consistent – to destroy the heresy (to lead out of delusion those who were seduced by the Orthodoxy we preach, which the heretics of the UOC KP called heresy) and to affirm the faithful of the UOC KP in Orthodoxy! It never hurts to repeat the simple Truths of Orthodoxy! The Apostle Peter did not tire of repeating what everyone knew, noting that speaking about the same thing is not difficult for him, but instructive for those who listen – for a reminder!) and unofficially; the only thing we, by God’s mercy, managed to achieve was to hear from their mouths (official, licensed “theologians” of the UOC KP) heresy – blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (this turned out to be more than enough!)! The purpose of these revealing words is not to offend or humiliate anyone, but to call all of us to repentance!!! And what is repentance?! What are you talking about, what do you mean when you talk about repentance?! What is it?!.. God grant us to learn to be as persistent and meticulous (to the point of nausea) in the search for Truth, on the path of catechism-preparation for the baptism of the Holy Spirit!!!