Seek The Lord!

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise
Lk. 6:31

The Holy Evangelist Luke speaks in today’s Gospel about the teaching and commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ about how we should be with people in society, so that we might please both God and people, make also a good name for ourselves, have a good conscience, and be made worthy of the promised, incorruptible Heavenly Homeland for our wise behavior in our earthly homeland (Lk. 6:31:36). Continue Reading »

In our day and age, we are left in a situation where we cannot separate ourselves by walls, or any other means, from unbounded religious pluralism. Man has found himself faced with such a proliferation of religious trends, each one offering its own ideals, norms of life, and views, that former generations would not envy us. A little earlier it was simpler. The main choice facing a seeker was quite clear—religion, or atheism. Now we are faced with something much more complicated, and worse. Now, before coming to Orthodoxy, one has to go through three difficult steps.

We already know the first step: does God exist, or not? If a person is already convinced that God exists, then an even more difficult problem arises. There are many religions, but which one of them is true? What should he become? Should he become a Christian, or why not a Moslem, or a Buddhist, or a hare Krishna? I do not want to name any more; there are many religions and pseudo-religions, sects, and syncretistic groups, and you know them better than I do. In a word, a person is faced with the endless question: why, why, and why? This is the nature of the first step. Continue Reading »