02-16-2012, 02:03 PM
Thirdwoe Wrote:Hi Arkady,
Which ones do you approve of? And I'll check what they wrote and quoted, if I can find it.
I tend to believe in Peshitta primacy though I am not so sure about the epistles and the Book of Revelation of The Apostle Yokhonan Theologian Whom Jesus loved.
While making logical conclusions is only right and good, I don't like the vibe I am getting from the idea that I make decision upon these primacy issues without profound knowledge of any of the languages involved in this controversy nor having done any decent research of my own. I strongly dislike the idea that I am thinking contrary to the opinion of certain fathers (like Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom (among those mostly venerated by us) and many others with them) of Church on this question if there're any or should they be discovered. that's all. They would be my first and last resort, really a matter of authority to me, submission if you like. As a child of those who have managed to survive under Stalin's regime though being removed from ukraine to the southern siberia, I believe I know what it's like to fall into the hands of God for having acted like disobedient children, meant to be the members of the Christ's Body. Our nation up until the beginning of the 20 century strongly adhered to the Canons of the Church and opinions of the church fathers and lived more or less in accordance with them and were thus led by the hand of God for the last 1000 years until the moment we betrayed our anointed tsar - martyr Nicholas II whose family our nation has sworn to serve in 1613 until the Second Coming of Christ.
I am not here to deny your findings, I (more of) recoursed to you guys as to the people (should I say scholars) more conversant in this subject. I think we ought to listen attentively if any of the aforementioned fathers have anything to tell us on this because one can not argue with those who were inspired by the Most Holy God Himself despite any findings of one's own, no matter how concrete these findings might sound to our ears. No disrespect meant.