{"id":6136,"date":"2019-02-05T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:49:47","slug":"elder-st-epiphanios-on-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Epiphanios on the \u2018Truth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause the truth is most certainly\u00a0one; truths cannot be many in number. The thing is,\u00a0who is the possessor of the truth?\u00a0That is the major question. Hence, it is not a matter of a\u00a0better or worse belief! It is a matter of the\u00a0only true belief! \u00a0I agree, that other beliefs also have moral teachings. Naturally, Christianity\u2019s moral teachings are incomparably superior. But, we do not believe in Christ because of His moral teachings. Or for His prompting to \u201cLove one another\u201d, or for His sermons on peace and justice, freedom and equality. We believe in Christ, because His presence on earth was accompanied by supernatural\u00a0events, which was a sign that He is\u00a0God. :\u00a0Either Christ\u00a0is an incarnate God, in which case, He is indeed, only then, the most ethical, the holiest and noblest personage of mankind,\u00a0or, He is\u00a0not an incarnate God, in which case, He\u00a0cannot possibly be any of these. In fact, if Christ is not God, then we are talking about the most horrible, the most atrocious and the most despicable existence in the history of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dialogue with an Atheist<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6137\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0511-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0511-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0511.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause the truth is most certainly\u00a0one; truths cannot be many in number. The thing is,\u00a0who is the possessor of the truth?\u00a0That is the major question. Hence, it is not a [&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-6136","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\/6136","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=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}