Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Women who failed to confess her sin ,and she was died...


There was once a God-fearing and virtuous lady, who was married and had children. She was never absent from Church, gave generously to the poor, fasted and possessed many other virtues as well. Even so, this unfortunate woman had committed one sin that she never confessed. Oftentimes she would go to her spiritual father intending to reveal it; however, after confessing all her other transgressions, she would feel embarrassed and fail to reveal this one as well.
This lady would frequently stand and cry inconsolably before the icon of the Mother of God, beseeching Her compassion to forgive the crime. Finally, she died without confessing her sin to anyone, When she reposed, her family members were waiting for one of her daughters from a distant region to arrive for the funeral, and for this reason they did not bury her until the third day.
As they were chanting the funeral service in the Church  – great are Thy wonders O Lord! – this decreased woman came back to life. She sat up in the coffin and proclaimed the following: “Great is they power Ever-Virgin Mary!”. Then she requested that someone call her spiritual father. When he arrived, she confessed her hidden sin to him, and then said the following for all to hear:
“I the wretch, on account of shame did not confess one sin I had committed. I wept every day for this mistake with much contrition, begging the Ever-Virgin Theotokos to show Her mercy on me, and not permit me to be condemned for this particular sin.
As soon as my wretched soul came out of my body, however, many demons grabbed it like wild wolves, jeering at me for my hidden sin. They were rejoicing for this sin, and assumed that they would retain me on account of it. After they dragged me down to Hell, where there was a deep darkness and inconsolable suffering, unexpectedly, the intercessor of sinners and Queen of the Angels appeared. She was shining brighter than the sun and emitted the limitless light of God into that entire gloomy area. Censuring the demons for taking me without the Lord having given them authority to do so, She rescued me from their hands and said to them, “Let us take her to the righteous Judge, and may whatever His compassion decides be done”. Then she turned to me and said, “Fear not my daughter, I will help you”.
When She took me to Christ the Lord, I saw Him sitting on a magnificent throne. I could tell that He was upset and displeased with me, ready to sentence me to eternal death. But our Lady Theotokos stood before Him with humility and said, “I pray and beg Thy goodness, My most-compassionate Son and loving God. Please forgive this poor soul through Thy great mercy and through Thine immaculate and precious Blood, which Thou didst spill for sinners. Thou knowest the great reverence which she had for me and how many tears she shed before my icon, weeping for her sin.”
The Lord, however, responded, “You know, my dear Mother, that no one can be saved without the mystery of life-saving confession, which this soul foolishly disregarded. She did not confess her sin, and now it is not possible for Me to forgive her; for in Hades there is no repentance.”
The Theotokos replied, “Truly my sweetest Son. No one can be saved without confession; however, You are the Ruler of life and death, and You are capable of all things. Please, I ask You to remember this unfortunate soul’s numerous good deeds, and above all her fervent adoration and her tremendous love and faith towards Me, and show to her Your infinite compassion, which exceeds all the sins of the world”
Then Christ responded, “So that I do not sadden you, dear Mother, I command this soul to return to her body. Mat she confession her sin according tot he law, and then may she be forgiven”.
“When the Master Christ has finished saying this, my guardian angel returned my soul to my body and brought me back to life, as you have witnessed. And now I am about to die again momentarily. For this reason, I beg all of you, my family and friends, and my beloved daughter: cease from your tears because you do not help me by crying. Instead, commemorate me during the Divine Liturgies, and give as many alms as you can on my behalf. Live carefully, for the love of God, so that you do not sadden Him with anything, and confession all your sins sincerely, without concealing any of them.” And having said these things, she fell asleep once more in the Lord.

Fundamentals in Buddhism-Karma in Buddhism

and the orthodox perspective-of the this nonsense of karma come and come again Only the quality, that is the social surrounding, the physical appearance and the mental abilities of a person are fixed by the deeds of his previous existences, but in noway his actions. If you see that other people are suffering, and you’re in a position to help, you focus not on their karmic past but your karmic opportunity in the present: Some day you may find yourself in the same predicament that they’re in now, so here’s your opportunity to act in the way you’d like them to act toward you when that day comes. It’s not about fatalism In Buddhism, rebirth is part of the continuous process of change. In fact, we are not only reborn at the time of death, we are born and reborn at every moment. However, the Bible was not speaking about karma but about the judgement of God The full Biblical verse is: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever aman soweth, that shall he also reap. – Galations 6:7.)The concept of karma is nothing more than a cunning attempt to entangle Soul in the laws of physics and thus make followers believe they are dependent on the guru for their release. New Agers like to cite karma as the law of personal responsibility, when in reality it is the opposite, a mechanism which allows someone to behave as he pleases, in the full knowledge that at some future date everything will balance out and no fundamentalharm has been done.Since New Agers believe the law of karma could not operate to full effect over the course of a single lifetime, they propose a long series of lives over which Soul‘matures’ and works off its bad karma. The end result, supposedly, of this long evolutionary process is God-Realization, the great illumination in which Soul finally becomes a god. Reincarnation is therefore marketed as a flawless mechanism of self- perfection, whereby the immaturities and defects in an individual are gradually refined and eliminated. This beguiling philosophy is designed to ensure that no one makes a serious effort toward their personal salvation since, as New Agers argue,everyone is saved from the outset, so who needs a Saviour? Again, Lucifer isachieving a major objective when he gets someone to accept this sinister philosophy.The New Age movement has tried various ways to market reincarnation among Christians. Chief among these is hypnotic regression, where the subject is placed in atrance-like state and induced to remember episodes from his ‘past lives.’ This is an extremely clever trick since hypnosis, by its nature, exposes the subject to demonic-influences. The implantation of ‘memories’ is thus easy to achieve. New Agers also like to cite cases of children who recall their past lives. This is highly disingenuous since children are very suggestible and liable to accept all kinds of myths and stories as part of their personal reality. If they are members of a family with a leaning toward the occult, the child may also be exposed to unclean spirits and implanted with ‘memories’ based on verifiable fact.It is worth noting that the great architect behind most New Age philosophies, Madame Blavatsky, did not herself assert the principle of reincarnation in her first major work, Isis Unveiled . If the fact of reincarnation is such a central tenet of New Age thinking,then why was it not mentioned even once in that monumental tome (over 1470 pages)? The reason is simple – it had not yet been identified (in 1877) as an importantingre dient in the toxic brew which Lucifer was preparing for the unwary.If you have any doubt about Blavatsky’s allegiance to the rule of Lucifer, you migh tlike to note that the name she gave to her theosophical magazine was Lucifer and that the publishing house established by her disciples to propagate her works was initially called Lucifer Publishing Company (later changed to Lucis Trust). Her books, Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine are riddled with Luciferian philosophy. Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. People foolishly think they can draw nourishment from certain New Age beliefs, in combination with their Christian faith, but this is not possible. As the Bible says,“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” (James 3:11). If a movement is Luciferian in any particular, it is Luciferian all the way through.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

ΜΗΤΕΡΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΦΟΡΑ ΤΟ ΑΕΡΟΣΚΑΦΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΗΛΙΟΣ

Defenses against NDE

Defenses against NDE delusion include prayer, knowledge of the Bible and patriarchal scriptures about the afterlife, and a critical attitude toward so-called visions. For example, when a demon appeared in the Great Sacrament in the form of Christ and said that Pachomius had thanked him greatly, the wise Saint was skeptical. Why should Christ, Pachomius, logically appear to such a poor sinner as he? That clearly could not be Christ, he decided. Pachomios made the sign of the cross and told the demon to leave. This humility is largely absent from modern NDE accounts.

Also missing from today's NDE stories is the cruelty of Saint Niphon, whose skeptical attitude once sent a bad spirit. The demon appeared to the Saint in the form of a holy angel and said that Niphon would be given the power to perform miracles, as a reward from God. Nifon was not fooled. He recognized this vision as a deception and a call for pride. "Wait a minute," he said to the demon, "and I will do a miracle for you." He turned to a nearby stone and told him to move to another location. The rock was submerged. "A lot for your gift," said St. Niphon, and he came to his senses. Then the Saint prayed to God and the demon disappeared. Remember the wisdom of these two saints in relation to the NDE phenomenon. They are models for dealing with misleading, non-Orthodox "visions" of the afterlife. Only the enlightened, cautious and well-informed soul is able to clearly see the demonic illusion involved in the NDE. and as each year passes, the need for clear thinking about the NDE and what it represents - the emerging religion of the Antichrist - increases. Just as a demon in an NDE (or comparable vision) can disguise himself as Christ, the Antichrist will one day appear as the Messiah. Thus, the NDE provides a preview of the false belief that the Antichrist will trap the world. Evidently, the modern-day NDE phenomenon is part of what St. Paul described in 2 Timothy 4: 3-4: itchy ears; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and they will turn into myths. " Will the faithful believe in the doctrines of the New Age NDE when they are told the truth about these false visions? In most cases, probably not. But because few can hear and respond, we Orthodox Christians must offer a clear and unequivocal testimony to the lies and dangers of the NDE phenomenon. Indeed, we can partly judge how clearly we are delivering this warning.

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