The Bible teaches a kind of package plan: You have God, truth, life and glory, or you have demons, darkness, death, satan, sin, corruption, ugliness and rot. This is the basic reality, and there is no middle path.
Fr. Thomas Hopko, spoken in Brisbane, Australia, October 1999
July 5, 2009 at 12:56 am
Indeed.
Deuteronomy 30:19
July 5, 2009 at 10:56 am
It’s like a (very) concise version of the Didaché 🙂
July 6, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Is there a podcast some place where we can listen to this lecture?
July 6, 2009 at 2:23 pm
davidperi,
Not a podcast – but a text. I’ve placed the link in the post (which I should have done when I posted it). The link is:
http://www.orthodoxchristian.info/pages/afterdeath.htm
July 7, 2009 at 10:30 pm
OCN has a series Fr Thomas Hopko gave which seems very similar.
Starting (go to the last page and then the second to last page):
http://www.myocn.net/index.php/Special-Moments-in-Orthodoxy/
The Death of Jesus & Our Death in Him