St Theophan the relcuse is so close to us of our times with a understanding of the Early Church Fathers , St Theophan pray to God for us !

My brother. This is such an honorable pursuit. You have surely blessed my life with this recording. I want to thank you. The Words of The Saints of Christ are so blessed and needed.

St. Hilarion Triotsky said "At least I'm not a monkey, at least some progress has been realized in me. This is how evolution by calling a monkey our ancestor feeds our pride, if a monkey is our benchmark then one can pride themselves in progress but if we compare ourselves to the sinless Adam (Christ) this external progress will lose its value"

Thank you for this. As a thinking adult Christian, I never accepted Atheism, Naturalism or Scientism, all implicit and unprovable (and untenable) in what passes for “science” of origins these days, but Young Earth Creationism and literal 24-hour days have seemed dubious to me as interpretations of Genesis. I have always considered the gospel (the Incarnation) and salvation the central issues of the the Faith and reconciling modern observations from real science and the Creation narratives and aspects of cosmological theories a secondary issue. Now I am Orthodox, there is the added wisdom of the Fathers, both early and contemporary to appreciate and consider, but these also require humility and growing discernment to interpret. At one point, on the fossil record not supporting evolutionary theory, Francis Collins, Head of the NIH and the human genome project and professing Christian wrote that all the transitions missing from the fossil record are mapped in human DNA. With recent events cementing the extent and reality of the massive corruption of him, his cronies and the agencies they head (and the real nature of the “god” they serve), his assertions carry no weight of credibility for me whatsoever!

Amazing collection of quotes! And thank you for including the hymns at the end!

Thank you for making this video. This is a very important issue for all of us as Orthodox Christians. We cannot embrace the philosophies of evolution/uniformitarianism as it is a dangerous and non-Biblical lie, which would pervert our Orthodox Christian children and converts to Orthodoxy away from the True Church, and into a sinful way of living. The Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church, from St. John Chrysostom to Fr. Seraphim Rose have always taught a literal 24-hour, six day creation (Hexameron). However, it is true we don't know how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. But, the earth still isn't millions of years old. It is also true that we should beware of Creationist ministries such as Answers in Genesis, Creation Science Evangelism, and Living Waters because they are shady capitalist Protestant Ministers that are seeking to make a profit, and want to make a mockery of the Holy Bible with an "Evangelical Walt Disney world". They also mix the scientific truth of creation with nonsense like ice ages, eohippus, and fossil fuels. We have plenty of scientific evidence of Intelligent Design by The Holy Trinity and a Great Flood. From the Hiatus Layer with it's Alluvial deposits, the fact that 75% of the earth's surface is sedimentary rock, the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record and the non-existence of a geologic column, the Mandel-Brot Structure, and that all eight blood types go back to one man and one woman who had intercourse. As for the dinosaurs, it is true that about 46% of dragons mentioned in accounts and depictions, look and sound like dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs and other marine reptiles; and other extinct reptiles, with 55% of dragons looking and sounding like demons taking a hideous form to frighten people. I also have seen a lot of depictions of extinct mammals like giant sloths, woolly mammoths, and glyptodons from American Indians in the New World. So this is all proof that God created these creatures along with Adam and Eve, not prehistoric creatures that lived millions of years ago. However, nobody is stupid for disbelieving or believing in dinosaurs.

The last 4 generations of biology text books had a reference to the 'similarity of fetus' theology (and it is a FAITH based theology) which was recently shown to be purely fiction by Earnst Haeckel. This is literally fiction: "In biology, abiogenesis, or informally the origin of life (OoL), is the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. While the details of this process are still unknown, the prevailing scientific hypothesis is that the transition from non-living to living entities was not a single event, but an evolutionary process of increasing complexity"

I didn't know you have a youtube channel, I listen on Spotify when I'm able to pull away from busy life. My husband and I ask the Lord to bless you for your work. Thank you so much

What an outstanding collection of quotes from the Holy Fathers! May God bless you.

This is an excellent compendium. Thank you.

I am a fan of science and I find it amazing that with the discoveries of the James Webb telescope. Science is having even more questions about the origins of the universe every day and it seems like all they’re doing. Is he improving more that the more questions they ask, the more they prove the existence of God’s creation

Honestly the only thing I don’t understand is what the point of all the animals would be if they all acted the same way. The Lion loses its identity if it acts the same way a gazelle does. So many animals lose their insightfulness into life if they were just all different looking versions of similar behaviour.

Anyone stuck on evolution just has to listen to David Berlinsky for an hour ☦️

Thank You For This video.

All your recordings are helpful and encouraging, and this one especially so . Thank you.

Legitimately have been looking for something like this, the Jay Dyer Genesis video is nice, but I don't have hours to find the specific bits that I'm trying to find lol

A most precious production. Thank you OW.

Thank you. Bless you.

I have to listen to this one of these days!

Very good

I love the hymns in the end :) God bless you

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If you don't know or aware of the divine logos then you always listen to fallible men. Our one father is revealed by his logos. He is our only creator and saviour and father of our salvation.

I guess this whole problem with evolution and creation is that you have to distinguish between the scientific theory of evolution and the atheistic philosophy that was wrongly based on it. If we don't understand what are the basis and the boundaries of science we will draw wrong conclusions. Genesis is not a scientific book using a scientific mindset and vocabulary. That is the error of protestant short time creationism.

Job 38:14 says of the Earth - "It takes on form like clay under a seal, And stands out like a garment." Interesting that the Earth has no measurable curvature - nor can any movement be measured.

Treating our Saints and Holly Fathers as if they, human beings, were omniscient beings is a mistake fruit not only of ignorance, but of human pride and arrogance as well. You are raising them at the level of semi-gods. God's creation is like an open book that he 'wrote' himself, without human intermediaries, a book that he show us with the possibility to read it little by little with the gift of reason. The Holy Fathers and our Saints showed us the path of Orthodox spirituality, the path to theosis. But it is a an irrational mistake to treat them as omniscient creatures that knew exactly how God performed his creation when God's creation actually shows us that they were wrong. They had their own limitations as any human being. They were not perfect. And we love them more because of that. That they were wrong about scientific knowledge should not be a problem to anyone who has a true strong faith. There is a big difference between true faith and fundamentalism.

Why did god let adam and eve sin? What is free will exactly? Why did god create everything if he knew the outcome? Why did jesus come when he came? What about the people before jesus? Where are they now? All in hell? Sometimes I dont understand nothing no more. Lord have mercy.

To believe Physical Laws were identical to now as before humans existed will always take faith!

Good video

Thank you

Not because religious leaders cannot reconcile Genesis 1&2 to scientific data & historical evidence the intelligent people would say the Bible is not accurate. The real reason is these people assuming themselves as “smart” have not fully understand the word of God in the Bible. Instead they talked ahead to deceive others who are weak in their faith. The truth is there is no inconsistency. Science is just catching up from the words in the Holy Scripture. Life on earth has already been written in the Book of Life. Make sure your name will not be blotted. Repent & understand the gospel until our end.

Pray 🙏🏼 for us amen ☦️☦️☦️⛪️

what about the flat earth? Saint Paisios says here that the earth revolves around the Sun but the Saints could not tell that to the people from their time.

Can you please post these quotes in written form also in some place ? Thanks.

Nature didn't fall, only Adam and Eve sinned and therefore fell. Rather, Nature was cursed because of them. Further, if Adam and Eve had had any wisdom, they wouldn't have disobeyed God. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" and, "Come, you children, listen to me, I'll teach you the fear of the Lord"- Proverbs.

amazing work

Wonderful content!

Great reading

Uncritically accept their speculations as if it were true knowledge. They do admit that nothing scientific is actually provable it’s only able to be proven wrong. So no matter what the contemporary speculative mechanistic encumbrances present to opposing viewpoints, they always win based on their confessional claims that their Zealousness is always unbiased and neutral in a vacuum of unequivocal fair arbitration of fact

Thank you!!

The ancient fathers knew enough about evolution not to have a problem with it. St Gregory of Nyssa who presided over the wording of the Nicene Creed wrote in favour of the theory of evolution. The Nicene Creed, the three Hierarchs and the other Fathers are clearly against the literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis (where e.g. God was a monad, not a trinity).

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Truth = Important Jesus = I am the truth Truth = Genesis is not a science textbook The truth for us all, is that we honour our Lord by accepting the very objectively clear truth, that this planet, and the life on it, is not thousands, but thousands of millions of years old, because Scripture and Scientific observations (the book of nature) are not in conflict, and are, in fact, two valid approaches for receving... Truth. Wake up! ; ) Modern genetics has proved the relationship between all living creatures: and not just that of having the same characteristics due to having the same Creator, but because common descent - to one degree or another - is a reality. We are spiritually unique, but we are biologically mammals: a microcosm that is somewhere (due to Adam's short lived illumination and infancy when he fell from the process of growth into the Divine likeness) between brute instinctive beast and angel x But sons in the Son! Glory

This is embarrassing. Leave science to the scientists. Things like this are the reason people are leaving the church.

Great anti science video. Now your comments are filled with flat earthers. theres issues with the translations, i recomend you to check inspiring philosophy videos on genesis.

Listen, I am atheist and I don't aim to insult your faith. But I have to advise you that putting science and religion in opposition only spreads ignorance, bigotry, fanatism. If you want to reconcile evolution with Christianity there's intelligent design theory. Refuting scientific proofs of evolution, which we have in abundance, only because they don't fit your worldview or "need or being humbled" is childish and foolish. Greetings

"ONLY TRUST THIS HOLY FATHER..." SOUNDS LIKE OCCULT. Don't mix truth with lies. This is blind heresy.