understood the belief system that was presented by augustan christianity of course in contrast is always a relationship but tween the soul and our savior and god revealed to us in jesus christ we don't realize that from the very beginning these are departures from scripture so we have the stinney and church in perfection which is the roman catholic church saying don't read scriptures only augustan and aquinas our church fathers which is what i was taught under the jesuits don't worry about the other church fathers just listen to the pope who is infallible not the head of his church the god to man jesus christ now the departures are so many i couldn't even name them the false idea of the trinity spirit proceeds from the father and the son that little phrase and the son confuses the family idea of the trinity we have the father is the head the son is the big guard and the holy spirit proceeding from the father also instead you have this by nitty you have two persons the father and the son and then now we teach in orthodoxy from the apostles and from the councils that you scripture to explain and unfold the meaning of the trinity we have the fact that all three persons are concepts tension that means big share the substance or the nature of god equally fully but that each person has a role just to each person here in the part of human nature has a role in humanity we should be perfectly united even as the trinity is in will and in action this is the calling that you and i have as human beings in christ as adopted sons and daughters so by destroying this equality of persons you have a lessening of the holy spirit and of course what happens is the holy spirit is grieved he is a person and when he is grieved he withdraws his power and his grace and his love and slowly watch this you have the dark ages ensued wing in the west it's not just because of barbarians it's because they've changed the face of jesus christ as he revealed it in scriptures they became unscriptural and pagan in their understanding of god the gaston misunderstands the nature god of course is going to misunderstand the nature of man he started out on a pagan footing already in paganism the body is seen as evil as the source of mortality as the source of all evil jesus christ contradicted paganism by saying that it is the heart that is evil out of the heart comes evil thoughts evil actions this was total totally new to anyone coming out that god said would happen if we separated ourselves from his commands which are life giving what is passed along from adam is not the guilt of sin that would be very unjust but the death that god said would happen if we separated ourselves from his commands which are life giving we must obey the god who created us without being attached to our creator we too will self destruct how many have been destroyed over this teaching of depravity and predestination how many of said oh i might as well live it up and sin as much as i can because i'm not just in for heaven obviously or i would feel it i would have the gift of faith you see what it does the destruction that ensues from every false teaching these are not just harmless ideas these are things that form the background of how we live and the way we act the fruit of action shows what we believe so these are extremely important concepts if you haven't come into the light of the holy orthodox christian faith with the fullness of christ and his gospel and the understanding of our life in christ and prayer exists today with his healing for you i promise with the holy eucharist life giving exchange are corruption exchanged for his in corruption  we can only go from glory to glory as we obey him in humble ourselves before this ancient and awesome gospel of jesus christ and our elders and fathers in the face parable of the product according to st luke a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to the father father give me the portion of the property which fallen to me and he divided to them his means of living and not many days after the son having gathered all together went abroad into a distant land and there scattered his property and after he spent all their rose a severe famine throughout that land and he began to be in want and he was long mean to fill his belly from the husks which the swine were eating and no one was giving to him but after having come to himself he said how many hired servants of my father a bond in low and i in paris sheen with hunger i will arise and go to my father and i will say to him father i sinned against heaven and before the and i am no longer worthy to be called dice son make me as one i hired servants and he arose and went to his father but when he was yet far away his father saw him and was mo with compassion and ran and fail up on his neck and ardently kissed him said to him father i have sinned against and provide a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet and brain the calf the fat it one and slay it and let us eat and be merry for this my son was dead and is alive again he was loss and is found and they began to be merr now his son the elder one was in a field and he came and drew near to the house he heard music and dance scene and he summoned one of his servants and began to enquire what these things may be and he said to him by brother is come and i father slew the calf because he received him back safe and sound and he said to him tchiowa how are the always with me to make merry and to when god created man he imparted himself is image and likeness of faculties of speech the ability to think to reason and free will these are the essential properties of man who  is what he is the father imparted to them the property meaning that he imparts to every one to mankind all mankind his image and likeness equally it is the younger son that is the prodigal has to do with the fact that when man was first created he was right in virtuous sin and not been born yet it came later the evil thing that is saying was born later along with the younger son who was born later and at that point sin sin you waited itself into mankind we will see later  in this parable that sin eventually insinuates itself into the elder son but then we have this after after the father imparts to the son the younger one the essential property and the son leaves the father he is now separated from the father there is no communion no fellowship with the father the son younger son is out in the world experiencing live as he wishes to making his own decisions tasting of the things of this world and this life on his own any fines after time that there is a longing we read about the famine in this famine as the prophet amos prophesied it is not a famine of bread and of water it is a famine of the words of god the logos the younger son the soul of the younger son came to be without the logos he was no longer walking with the logos he was no longer able to experience the fellowship and communion with the father he was not able to proceed in accordance with the commandments he was not able to listen to the words of the prophets and the soul hungered for the logos the fellowship with the father to be with the father and we see that the younger son comes to himself turns around repentance and runs back to the father and we read how the son has come to that point he tells the father i am no longer worthy to be your son accept me back as a hired servant and we read from the fathers that the hired servants are those catechumens those who serve god because they fear his judgment also those that serve god for the rican pence for the rewards the crowns but then there is that level that third level that we should all aspire to and that is to serve our god and savior jesus christ because we love him when the younger son returns to repentance to the father we see in this parable how long suffering how merciful and how loving the father is he never ceases to love the son back we read that when he was still far away the father sees him coming returning and the father runs to him and embrace him and kisses him and he doesn't accept him back as a hired servant he accepted him back as a son we read that he clothes him with the role of salvation the garment of in corruption then we have the elder son he questions the father he says father i have been with you always i've paid you i've followed your commandments i never complained about anything i've been here with you always never left you and here you have this one he doesn't even refer to him as his brother notice in the parable he said is this your sign we see in this that not only is he rejecting his brother he's also rejecting the father virtues are a single and simple and their opposite and opposing vices are multi complex and lead to great error in the younger sons for asking for forgiveness his father i have sand forgive me received me back as a hired servant in the older son of the opposite in opposing response we see in him and forgiveness we see in him judge mentalism we see in him anger which leads to murder we saw the sand of the elder son in cain in the story of cain and abel if you recall they made an offering to their god the father of their best and god the father except that abel's offering but rejected cain's offering it was not the gear of it it was the attitude of the heart we will be repentant like the product on and return to the father and not want to be apart from him but want to be in communion and fellowship with him all the days of our life he continues to love us and we give glory to him for and measurable how  we're actually answering some questions that have been submitted some years ago and really toward the end of the seventy's when the question of the tale of the aerial told  first came up i got a number of letters when i started to close in that teaching i got even more letters the first one i got was from a woman who is fourteen year old very pious young men served at the altar like the church loved being in the church love the divine liturgy and study prayers took communion often was killed in an automobile accident and the mother was told that even months him that he had not confessed even if he didn't know it was a sin or even if he'd simply truly honestly forgotten to confess that the demons could grab his soul and drag it shrieking and howling to hell soul after death and having read it they decided that this was a teaching of the orthodox church which so radically contradicted holy scripture they didn't want any part of the orthodox church a group priest wrote to me that a group of his people had read the idea processing through the forty now what they never do is to examine the way in which the proof texts it taken create a radical internal contradiction in the actual express contradiction if one takes those passages seriously and then look at the rest of the writings of these holy fathers looks at the expressed doctrine of the church we see that the whole idea of the aerial told and the funeral service well the hymns not to mention not even scant comma or period that would reflect in any way any such teaching or doctrine as being in the consciousness of the church ever indeed the aerial toll house and wondering soul descriptions of the meaning of the third darnton forty of these services diametrically contradict the orthodox church teaching about so the fact that no mention of them in these ways now the idea that the demons can grab your soul rug and screaming into hell so that it can't reach christ for his judgment if it has even one sin that it it may be god forgive you welcome this world and that which is