Rumpelstiltskin wrote: ↑Fri 19 April 2024 5:15 pm
I no longer have a shred of interest in what he has to say, frankly.
Prudent choice. Metropolitan Neophytos was claiming back in what must have been about Lent '21 that WW3 was underway in the Middle East. It was supposedly already a hot war and the media were covering it all up. Not as personal speculation but mixed in with all his prophecies from "Saint" Iakovos and all the other elders.
There's some real Deuteronomy 18:22 going on in conservative World Orthodoxy. In fact they teach explicitly against this doctrine. Fr. Peter and his ilk* would say that God gives prophecies to the elders but when the people either repent more or less then the prophecy doesn't happen and God is okay with that because it is better for the elder to be embarrassed than bad things to happen. It's a free-for-all because every time the prophecy doesn't happen, repentance must have been [insert present/absent]. Of course in reality some prophecies do get modified due to repentance, but that is like when the Ninevites repented and the destruction of their city was delayed by a few generations. Also, the mercy was announced. And lastly it didn't happen with a large fraction of prophecies like we have here.
And I repeat myself because this one leads straight to delusion: Scripture teaches otherwise.
I may do some research on Patristic Nectar in the future, but it basically seems to be at the same level content wise as Ancient Faith radio, just at a glance.
AFR is waay more liberal. They even banned Abbot Tryphon, who's rather liberal himself. Fr. Josiah is basically just a morally conservative Antiochian Archdiocese priest who is famous for speaking against sodomy and his polemical book against protestantism (Rock and Sand). He seems rather ecumenist based on off-hand remarks I heard but I don't know how radical he is with it.
*As I recall I heard this out of Fr. Peter's own mouth but correct me if I am wrong.