Homilies on the Orthodox Faith · Lecture 010
The Church
A lecture by Nikolaos Sotiropoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos opens this Vancouver lecture by framing Matthew 16 as the decisive passage for identifying Jesus Christ and understanding salvation. He recounts Christ's question at Caesarea Philippi and the mistaken opinions that He was John the Baptist, Elijah, or Jeremiah, stressing that even lofty human estimates fall short unless one confesses Him as more than prophet or teacher. Peter's confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, is presented as both the recognition of the Messiah and the supreme confession of His divinity. He expounds Trinitarian doctrine, that the Son is begotten and not created and of one essence with the Father, using the sun's disk, light, and heat as an analogy, and warns against those who deny Christ's divinity, naming the Jehovah's Witnesses. Christ's blessing of Peter proves the confession was revealed by the Father, and the promise to build the Church upon the rock is read against papal claims as resting on Peter's faith and on Christ Himself.
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