{"id":5967,"date":"2019-01-06T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T17:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2019-01-05T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T13:54:01","slug":"fr-seraphim-rose-on-active-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5967","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Seraphim Rose+ on Active Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b9j0t\" data-offset-key=\"67vub-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"67vub-0-0\">&#8220;[Some] Protestants have a simple and warm Christian faith without much of the sectarian narrowness that characterizes many Protestant groups. They don&#8217;t believe, like some Protestants, that they are &#8220;saved&#8221; and don&#8217;t need to do any more; they believe in the idea of spiritual struggle and training the soul. They force themselves to forgive each other and not to hold grudges. They take in bums and hippies off the streets and have a special farm for rehabilitating them and teaching them a sense of responsibility. In other words, they take Christianity seriously as the most important thing in life; it&#8217;s not the fullness of Christianity that we Orthodox have, but it&#8217;s good as far as it goes, and these people are warm, loving people who obviously love Christ. In this way they are an example of what we should be, only more so.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b9j0t\" data-offset-key=\"9ltim-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9ltim-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9ltim-0-0\">Whether they attain salvation by their practice of Christianity is for God to judge, for some of their views and actions are far from the true Christianity of Orthodoxy handed down to us from Christ and His Apostles; but at least an awareness of their existence should help us to be aware of what we already have.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b9j0t\" data-offset-key=\"egpus-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"egpus-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"egpus-0-0\">~ &#8216;Orthodoxy in America&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"egpus-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5968\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0494-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0494-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/0494.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Some] Protestants have a simple and warm Christian faith without much of the sectarian narrowness that characterizes many Protestant groups. They don&#8217;t believe, like some Protestants, that they are &#8220;saved&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}