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Tuesday 24 March 2009

THEOTOKOS: Virgin Mary or Maria?

Transated from the original by Chris Tsilikas


Annunciation of Theotokos


It is a fact that all the heresies or the followers of any other Christian doctrine – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Pentecostalists, Evangelicalists, etc. – degrade Virgin Mary as a figure. More specifically all kinds of heresies support that:
Virgin Mary had other children too, apart from Jesus...

Thursday 5 March 2009

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES: APOPHATISM AND… HOMELESS GOD

Translated from the original by Chris Tsilikas
WHAT IS APOPHATISM?
The term “apophatism” was introduced quite early in Christianity in an attempt to protect the divinity of God from heathen and anthropocentric perceptions. The first genes of apophatism can be detected in the New Testament. Apostle Paul, first of all, writes in his epistle to Romans referring to God’s justice towards irreverent people: “But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) (Epistle to the Romans, 3:5). ..