{"id":279,"date":"2015-05-29T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2015-05-23T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T01:26:18","slug":"saturday-may-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orthodox Daily Devotional<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Scripture Reading
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JOHN 10: 31\u00a0<\/sup>Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered them, \u201cMany good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?\u201d33\u00a0<\/sup>The Jews answered Him, saying, \u201cFor a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.\u201d 34\u00a0<\/sup>Jesus answered them, \u201cIs it not written in your law, \u2018I said, \u201cYou are gods\u201d\u2019? 35\u00a0<\/sup>If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36\u00a0<\/sup>do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, \u2018You are blaspheming,\u2019 because I said, \u2018I am the Son of God\u2019? 37\u00a0<\/sup>If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38\u00a0<\/sup>but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is<\/em> in Me, and I in Him.\u201d \u00a039\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.40\u00a0<\/sup>And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed. 41\u00a0<\/sup>Then many came to Him and said, \u201cJohn performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true.\u201d \u00a042\u00a0<\/sup>And many believed in Him there.<\/p>\n

Orthodox\u00a0Wisdom
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The Jew says, \u201cYou being a man\u201d; you [Arians] say, \u201cYou being a creature.\u201d You both join in the cry, \u201cYou make yourself God,\u201d with the same insolence of blasphemy. You deny that he is God begotten of God; you deny that he is the Son by a true birth; you deny that his words \u201cI and the Father are one\u201d contain the assertion of one and the same nature in both. You foist upon us instead a modern, strange, alien god. You make him God of another kind from the Father, or else not God at all, as not subsisting by a birth from God.\u2026 You say, in effect, \u201cYou are not a Son by birth; you are not God in truth; you are a creature excelling all other creatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. Hillary \u00a0(this shows why the Church Fathers so strongly condemned ‘arianism’…an early heresy…because it denied Christ was God.<\/p>\n

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New Calendar\u00a0Saints<\/a> &\u00a0 Lectionary Scriptures<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Old Calendar Saints & Lectionary Scriptures<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. \u00a9 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/div>\n
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