{"id":4607,"date":"2018-03-30T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2018-03-21T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:20:15","slug":"fr-seraphim-rose-on-the-truth-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Seraphim Rose  on the Truth of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"eopvq\" data-offset-key=\"55in6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"55in6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"55in6-0-0\">&#8220;Christ came to enlighten mankind. There are various religions outside His revelation where the followers are sincere\u2014not just practicing demon worship\u2014and where the soul is really trying to get through to God. I would say that, before the people have heard of Christ, these religions are fine as far as they go, but they will not get you to the goal. The goal is eternal life and the Kingdom of Heaven, and God came in the flesh to open this up to us. Therefore, Christianity is true; you can point to the various comparative elements of truth in other religions and often they are very profound, but they do not open up heaven. Only when Christ came to earth and told the thief, \u201cYou will be with Me in Paradise,\u201d was heaven actually opened up to men.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"eopvq\" data-offset-key=\"6q8cg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6q8cg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6q8cg-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018God\u2019s Revelation to the Human Heart\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"eopvq\" data-offset-key=\"966ch-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"966ch-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4608\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/w5-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/w5-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/w5-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/w5.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christ came to enlighten mankind. There are various religions outside His revelation where the followers are sincere\u2014not just practicing demon worship\u2014and where the soul is really trying to get through [&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-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","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=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}