{"id":13359,"date":"2023-12-20T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2023-12-08T19:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:57:56","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-20-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13359","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The true experience of heaven is accompanied by a feeling of such awe and fear before the greatness of God and a feeling that such unworthiness to be beholding it as is seldom found among Orthodox Christians today let alone those outside the Church of Christ&#8230;Those who have seen &#8220;paradise&#8221; in the [New\u00a0 Age] &#8216;aerial realm&#8217; today are pleased, happy, satisfied \u2013 seldom anything more; if they behold Christ in some form it is only to indulge in the familiar dialogues with him that characterize experiences in the &#8220;charismatic&#8221; movement. The element of the Divine and of man&#8217;s awe before it, the fear of God, are absent in such experiences.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Fr Seraphim Rose \u00a0in \u2018The Soul After Death\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13360\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/p0000.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The true experience of heaven is accompanied by a feeling of such awe and fear before the greatness of God and a feeling that such unworthiness to be beholding it [&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-13359","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\/13359","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=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13361,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions\/13361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}