Bruder Klaus wrote: ↑Sat 21 December 2024 2:48 pm
Imiaslavie is a complex topic and if HOCNA teaches a heretical version of it, is difficult to say. You come out and call them heretics. That's quite an accusation and I would be careful with throwing that out easily.
If I go too far then I must apologise, but as far as everything I know I cannot accept them unless they condemn it. The fathers rejected not only those who themselves taught heresy, but also those who tolerate it.
Suaidan wrote: ↑Sat 21 December 2024 3:01 pm
He's not throwing it out easily. It was condemned by the Russian Synod in 1913, in ROAC again in 2005, and GOC-K spoke out against it in 2014. My Synod condemned it as well a couple of years later. Imyaslavie comes back at this point because of HTM/Luriyite fan fiction of it being part of True Orthodoxy and it's a disgusting lie.
Having known people who had their lives threatened for standing up to it, I would be very careful if I were you trying to promote that as Orthodoxy on this forum.
I take your word for it as far as details go, Father, as I did not check that. I merely go by the fact that I see some HTM people promoting it although I heard that Rdr. Sava said at least some of them do not believe it, which I presume makes it not officially accepted doctrine.
To me it is good enough to see how the Holy Fathers reacted to those who rejected iconoclasm but nevertheless communed with iconoclasts. I forget the saint's name now--this seems to be a theme--but one of them communed with bishops who pronounced anathema with their lips only before him, and afterwards repented of his sin, having known who they were under.