{"id":10398,"date":"2021-10-08T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2021-10-05T20:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:37:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-8-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMan\u2019s condition before the Fall involved creation in grace, participating in the Divine Energies but not Essence, with the potential for deification. Adam and Eve were \u201cconditionally immortal.\u201d Their bodily existence did not have according to the Fathers the fallen coarser aspects of physical corporeality today. Human beings before the Fall did not experience \u201cirrational desire\u201d for pleasures, finding their pleasure in God.\u201d<br \/>\n(Abbot Damascene, summary of Fr Seraphim Rose\u2019s writings on creation)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10399\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gg5sx8inkwelinbfzfak-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gg5sx8inkwelinbfzfak-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gg5sx8inkwelinbfzfak-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gg5sx8inkwelinbfzfak-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gg5sx8inkwelinbfzfak-1-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gg5sx8inkwelinbfzfak-1.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMan\u2019s condition before the Fall involved creation in grace, participating in the Divine Energies but not Essence, with the potential for deification. Adam and Eve were \u201cconditionally immortal.\u201d Their bodily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10400,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}