{"id":1640,"date":"2020-11-24T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:49:43","slug":"orthodox-prophecy-vs-orthodox-common-sense-orthodox-worldview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Prophecy vs. Orthodox Common Sense (Orthodox Worldview)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I touched on this subject before, but i feel like i have to reiterate it. The purpose of a Christian life is to acquire that &#8220;Orthodox Common Sense&#8221; (the presence of the Holy Spirit) in our lives. Thus this needs to be our main focus. If we start to over-rely on fulfillment of certain prophecies as our main guidance (which prophecies will happen, make no mistake), we are defeating the purpose of having a Christian life in the first place. In most instances prophecies are not understood until after they are fulfilled and trying to discern &#8220;how far we are from this prophecy to fulfill or that prophecy to fulfill&#8221; is the incorrect Christian attitude that presents no spiritual benefits for the soul. Centering one&#8217;s spiritual life on a worldview based solely on examining prophecies is in fact anti-Orthodox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Orthodox Common Sense on the other hand, can in fact offer practical guidance to conducting our day-to-day struggles and spiritual warfare and prepares us in all respects to confront what&#8217;s coming ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to chase anyone who can &#8220;shed light on prophecies&#8221; rather than focusing on the above is in fact searching for &#8220;gurus&#8221; and not really seeking true Orthodox understanding. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I touched on this subject before, but i feel like i have to reiterate it. The purpose of a Christian life is to acquire that &#8220;Orthodox Common Sense&#8221; (the presence of the Holy Spirit) in our lives. Thus this needs to be our main focus. If we start to over-rely on fulfillment of certain prophecies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}