Thursday, October 15, 2015

People caves aliens and our controlled imagination

People caves aliens and our controlled imagination
What about our own imagination? I noticed that we often take these pictures as accurate, as if they were photos. But if we look at how our ability to draw has changed over the time... How do we know that what we see is the same thing they saw, and how do we know we're not seeing something in these pictures just because we portrait it as something that was printed in our minds over the years by media, movies, books, etc?

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Modern Pentecostals,

Modern Pentecostals, to justify their use of tongues, refer most of all to St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians . But St. Paul wrote this passage precisely because 'tongues' had become a source of disorder in the Church of Corinth; and even while he does not forbid them, he decidedly minimizes their significance. This passage, therefore, far from encouraging any modern revival of "tongues," should on the contrary discourage it‹especially when one discovers (as Pentecostals themselves admit) that there are other sources of speaking in tongues besides the Holy Spirit! As Orthodox Christians we already know that speaking in tongues as a true gift of the Holy Spirit cannot appear among those outside the Church of Christ.