tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post7183920324027938650..comments2024-01-12T04:58:49.069-05:00Comments on Kyrie, Eleison!: The Entirely Loveable God and Father of Our Lord Jesus ChristAnastasia Theodoridishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-7124868910602145502009-11-11T23:17:47.213-05:002009-11-11T23:17:47.213-05:00anastasias-corner.blogspot.com is very informative...anastasias-corner.blogspot.com is very informative. The article is very professionally written. I enjoy reading anastasias-corner.blogspot.com every day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-42457792725837221792008-07-19T23:26:00.000-04:002008-07-19T23:26:00.000-04:00:-) Kitten is loveable, too; how much more, her C...:-) Kitten is loveable, too; how much more, her Creator! <BR/><BR/>But I just added kitty because I thought it was kind of cool to have the text float over a picture. I'm probably going to delete it after a while, in case kitty creeps people out, staring at them like that. (Or makes cat haters, of whom there are many, avoid my blog!)<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Christopher, for the article from the Ochlophobist. Yes, very interesting parallel.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-60173095000199516902008-07-19T14:41:00.000-04:002008-07-19T14:41:00.000-04:00Any interesting parallel post by The Ochlophobist:...Any interesting parallel post by The Ochlophobist: <BR/><BR/>"Our unearthy Pentecostal is a moralist of the first order. If you err in this or that way, there will be a consequence. That seems fine at the surface, until it becomes more and more apparent that the unearthy Pentecostal loves the consequences meted out to those who err more than she loves those who err. Indeed, by all appearances, the rules are loved more than the God who gives them, or the persons who struggle to obey them. What is most important is that we submit to the divine order. That is what we know. That is what is real. With the language of “loving God” this person, so it seems, actually means “loving God’s simplistic cause and effect economy of punishment and reward.” The divine Person, for this Pentecostal, is not really a Person but rather an abstract mechanism of just order. The human person is simply an machine made to respond to that order – either through right action which results in health, wealth, and blessing, or wrong action which results in sickness (of various sorts), poverty (again of various sorts), and impending doom...<BR/><BR/>The above is a rather extreme example of American religious moralism, but it is not an uncommon one, and this sort of moralism can be found across the religious spectrum – both conservatives and liberals from all sorts of confessions. One can trade the key moral issues, but still arrive at an economy of grace or “grace” that is no more than cause and effect rote determinism."<BR/><BR/>http://ochlophobist.blogspot.com/2008/07/love-and-loose-holdings.html123https://www.blogger.com/profile/14514075641944568806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-91048328991776793772008-07-19T14:37:00.000-04:002008-07-19T14:37:00.000-04:00I'm guessing that the kitten background is meant t...I'm guessing that the kitten background is meant to underline the 'entirely loveable God' of the Orthodox... :)123https://www.blogger.com/profile/14514075641944568806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-63323673606284315692008-07-19T13:52:00.000-04:002008-07-19T13:52:00.000-04:00Well put, as always. It is ironic that we humans,...Well put, as always. It is ironic that we humans, in condemning our own sin, seek to make God in our own image.<BR/><BR/>I think I understood God so much more when He gifted me with my own children. My love for them, in its many forms, seeks only for them to grow to healthy maturity. Would not our Heavenly Father want this for us?JTKlopcichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07202879859949004604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6546468339418636140.post-49062003886015335332008-07-19T11:40:00.000-04:002008-07-19T11:40:00.000-04:00I often wonder if the people who make such stateme...I often wonder if the people who make such statements read the Church Fathers, who agree, as you said, that a mind of the flesh is working against God, yet does not come to the conclusion we are rebels against God who deserve to be punished. They always said there was hope for us, and that is why we struggle to overcome our flesh the way Christ and the saints taught us.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04232209481041145155noreply@blogger.com