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I am a grown up and take responsibility for what I believe. You believe it's incorrect and I couldn't care less about your opinion. Dear kayla, let's leave it here, al right? I already understood your position and I don't even try to change it. In fact, YOU came here to "not derail my...

Than let me rephrase: I understand the Word differently than you. Like it or not. I believe we are now the New Israel and that whoever believes in Jesus Christ enters in the New Covenant. Jews don't believe in Jesus Christ. If Jews accept Jesus Christ as Messiah and as God, than they too...

I can believe what I want, I can believe the Jews are wrong and I am right (in my faith). Jews can believe they are right and I am wrong. And we go separate ways.

I believe his homilies reached their purpose, which was: to stop Christians keeping the Jewish Festivals and stay away from the Jews. I consider hatred towards Jews what has been done during the Spanish Inquisition, by the Catholic Church: when Jews were forced to convert to Catholicism and...

Yes, that's exactly what we believe. That we are the new Israel.

Also, his homilies were not heard by the Jews. This was something for those 'inside the house to hear', not for the Jews. It's like a parent who teaches his kids that homosexuals are demon possessed, but this teaching is supposed to stay in the house. It's more like a warning for his children...

It is not the people he hates, is their religion.

St. John Chrysostom had no relation with the Jews, didn't even engaged with them, let alone harm them. He took attitude against them in a certain context and that context was the following: his flock started to participate in Jewish festivals, keep the Sabbath; this tendency of Christians to...

You could start a thread on his homily against Jewish faith and Judaizing Christians of his time and I will defend him there. Yes, anti-Semitism, which means preaching and proceeding to the extermination of the Jews, is hatred. Now, please, come up with evidence that St. John Chrysostom...

In the liturgical books of the Eastern Orthodox Church, there are many chants which scold the Jews for having rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah. This is certainly not politically correct, but it's not anti-Semitic, either.

I was expecting your comment, kayla. His homilies against Jews and Judaizing Christians are very strong, indeed, but I am very responsible when I say that he didn't have hate in his heart, nor was he anti-semitic.

When we live according to the gospel, we are alive. When we live according to the world, we live only in theory. We are an alter-persona. We are not truly ourselves. We don't really live, we are being lived. In the kingdom of God, we are united with Christ and are our fullest self. In hell we...

Mailmandan, Repentance doesn't simply mean 'to change your mind'. It means to switch your mind with the mind/thought of God in order to do God's will.

The word repentance triggers different meanings in the mind of Christians. The most common being regret for past actions and way of living your life prior to accepting Christ as your Savior. And this person would be correct. However, repentance means way much more than that. The greek word for...

Thank you, Platosgal! God bless you too! I am not Catholic either. Catholics already celebrated Easter the 4th of April. When I first heard this sermon my eyes filled with tears.

I don't feel like starting an argument over what you said. We both know you didn't read neither the sermon, nor the link you provided, which makes your comment shallow and biased.

Well, if you truly believed that 'to each his own', you would have abstained from linking Saint John Chrysostom to Roman-Catholicism in an attempt to diminish and question his sermon and person.

The whole New Testament is crossed from the beginning until the end by the summon to repentance.

Christ has risen! We celebrate Easter this night, I can hear the choir and the priests from my apartment. Unfortunately, I couldn't go because of health problems in the family. I want to share with you the sermon of St. John Chrysostom which is normally read on the night of the Resurrection...

Maybe 'cessationism' was the same doctrine avant la lettre held by the Pharisees. They confessed with their lips the God of Abraham, they knew the Bible very well, the miracles and the signs registered in it but couldn't believe that the same miracles and signs could occur during their...