1:41 PM
I'd probably reach out to the individual privately and encourage them to experience Orthodoxy and ask a priest
thanks, another question then, given the weight of instruction in scripture not just to 'read' and 'understand', but more on the lines of 'meditate on' and 'soak up'/'feed on'/'absorb', but also the 'scholastic' style of Paul's writing, do you think the intended means of receiving this revelation is actually a mixture of both rather than one or the other?
@JackDouglas clarification, when I say Scholastic, I was referring to speaking through an Aristotelian lens, not simply 'academic'
His letter to the Romans was written in a juridicial mindset since this best reached their culture (and Protestants tend to elevate the theology of this book above everything else in scripture, including other writings of Paul)
At the same time, some of the interpretations we have of Romans today are largely misguided (as NT Wright and others have observed)
When we approach the biblical text, we should use our whole mind, so long as we do not do so in exclusion to using our whole soul and heart as well
2:38 PM
I'm thinking that Eastern leans one way and Western leans the other, but someone from either 'tradition' might still be able to know God if he avoids the danger of elevating one extreme of the other until it becomes and idol
2:59 PM
I once heard a priest say, "humans can't get it wrong 100% of the time, even if they try, because they are made in the image of God"
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