29 Questions For Elder Ephraim
By exposing Elder Ephraim, I am doing what Orthodoxy always taught me to do (defend the faith). If the information I learned about Elder Ephraim is true, then he is guilty of attacking the Eastern Orthodox Church. 1. According to Ruth's blog, A former novice named Joshua said: "The abbot predicted at that time that if I left, I would end my life, “crying in a corner” and that those tears would have “no redeeming value”. This, in effect, was damning me to hell if I left." As an Orthodox Christian, I know for a fact that Abbot Paisios' concept is heretical and unbiblical, consequently placing him into the category of what Scripture calls a false teacher, because he was contradicting the God-inspired biblical teaching on how a person is justified by God. I have several more remarks to make. First, according to biblical teaching, a person is damned for unrepentant sin and for rejecting Jesus Christ. The assumption in abbot Paisios was that it was...