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God permits us to harden our hearts, but he does not desire any man to harden his heart against God and against God's truth. If God permits us to harden our hearts, how does Orthodoxy explain the experience felt by those whose heart remain hardened despite the fact that they diligently seek God for...

FIFTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE (553) ANATHEMAS AGAINST THE DOCTRINES OF ORIGEN OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE ORIGENISTS If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration [apokatastasis] which follows from it, let him be anathema. If anyone ...

CONFESSION OF FAITH BY SAINT CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA AND ARCHBISHOP JOHN OF ANTIOCH We confess, therefore, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-Begotten Son of God, perfect God and perfect man, consisting of a rational soul and flesh; begotten, before the ages, of the Father according to His Deity [Godhood],...

THE DEFINITION OF FAITH THE FOURTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON (A.D. 451) We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ; the same [is] perfect in Godhood [Deity] and also perfect in manhood [humanity]; truly G...

ΤΟ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝ τῆς πρώτης οἰκουμενικῆς συνόδου ἐν Νικαίᾳ Πιστεύομεν εἰς ἕνα θεὸν πατέρα παντοκράτορα, πάντων ὁρατῶν τε καὶ ἀοράτων ποιητήν. Καὶ εἰς ἕνα Κύριον 'Ιησοῦν Χριστόν, τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸν γεννη­θέντα ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς μονογενῆ, τοῦτ᾿ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας τοῦ πατρός, θεὸν ἐκ θεοῦ, φῶς ἐκ φωτός, θε...

ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΚΥΠΡΙΟΥ, ΕΚΘΕΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ (1285) ΕΚΘΕΣΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΚΚΟΥ ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΩΤΑΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΚΥΠΡΙΟΥ, ΟΥΤΙΝΟΣ ΕΠΕΛΑΒΟΝΤΟ ΤΙΝΕΣ, ΚΑΙ ΓΕΓΟΝΕ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΚΕΙΝΟΥΣ Η ΑΠΑΝΤΗΣΙΣ ΙΣΧΥΡΑ (PG 142:233-246). (233) Ἔσχε μὲν ἡ ἐ...

ὉΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΕΥΓΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΤΟΥ ἉΓΙΩΤΑΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ ἘΦΕΣΟΥ, ΚΥΡ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΕΥΓΕΝΙΚΟΥ, ὉΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΗΣ ὈΡΘΗΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ἘΚΤΕΘΕΙΣΑ ἘΝ ΦΛΩΡΕΝΤΙΑ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΛΑΤΙΝΟΥΣ ΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΝ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΝ (L. Petit, Marci Eugenici Metropolitae Ephesi opera anti-unionistica , 10.2, Concilium Florentinum Documen...