{"id":5296,"date":"2018-08-14T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2018-08-12T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T18:37:30","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5296","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome people misunderstand and confuse these words. They say,\u2018Since God has everything written down, we are ruled by fate and destiny. It was, for example, predestined for you to commit a murder; God had preordained you to do this.\u2019And they ask,\u2018If I am destined to murder you, am I responsible or not responsible? Moreover, since \u201cthe things I have not yet done are already written\u201d, why should we humans be regarded as responsible for our actions? And can you, who affirm that God is good, tell me why lie ordained this and didn\u2019t avert me from doing it?\u2019 Here is the secret: God in His omnipotence and omniscience knows everything including the things that will happen in the future,but He is not the cause use of evil. God has foreknowledge, but He does not pre-ordain\u2026 In His omniscience He knows both good and evil. He cooperates with good, being, as God, good by nature and alien to evil. But since He is alien to evil, how is it possible for Him to\u00a0\u00a0 ordain us for evil? God created everything exceedingly good and and gave to\u00a0 everything a good and holy purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5297\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30267055970_df4d973c9e_b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30267055970_df4d973c9e_b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30267055970_df4d973c9e_b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30267055970_df4d973c9e_b-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30267055970_df4d973c9e_b.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSome people misunderstand and confuse these words. They say,\u2018Since God has everything written down, we are ruled by fate and destiny. It was, for example, predestined for you to commit [&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-5296","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\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}