His Eminence Metropolitian Youseff is one of my favorite teachers within the Coptic Orthodox Church. He is truly a Pillar of the Orthodox Faith in these times of apostasy and confusion.
Within the video above, he explains Oriental Orthodox Christology and gives a remarkable defense of the Miaphysite Formula.
I recommend that every Orthodox Christian watch this!
God bless!
The Oriental Orthodox Church teaches that Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity – One in Essence with The Father and the Holy Spirit. Of all the Three Persons of The Holy Trinity, Only The Word (Jesus Christ) became Incarnate for our sake. This means that as the Eternal Logos (Word) of The Father, He took on flesh from the Virgin Mary – making Him perfect God and Perfect man in One Concrete Nature (More on this in a future post).
To expand on this dogmatic truth, St. Clement of Alexandria says the following: “The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning—for he was in God—and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things” (Exhortation to the Greeks 1:7:1 [A.D. 190]).
Continue reading “The Divinity of Christ”
“…that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation…” ( 2 Peter 1:20).
What exactly is the Private interpretation of scripture?
St. Basil the Great defines the private interpretation of scripture as one refusing “to follow the fathers, (and) not holding their declaration of more authority than one’s own opinion…” (Letter to the Canonicae 52:1 [A.D. 370]).
In other words, the one interpreting the Bible interprets it in accordance to how they want it to be understood. This is dangerous since this creates opportunities for false doctrines to arise, as the individual misinterpreting the scriptures departs from the Tradition of the Church and the Gospel message as a whole.
Continue reading “Sola Scriptura & the Private Interpretation of Scripture: Is it Orthodox?”
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