THEOSIS - The True Purpose of the Human Life

Heiromonk Felipe Balingit joins Father Peter Heers to discuss the true purpose of human life: Theosis.

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[AbrahamFramirez-hrzu]

Greetings to all my Orthodox Brothers 🇬🇷☦️

[stavrouladeessegloria]

Glory to Jesus Christ ☦️
May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️
May we all be made worthy to experience the final Theosis after our purification journey on the narrow path of the Church on Earth.

[inezvasquez]

I'm not even finished listening! And find this uplifting! Thank you!!! Simply...simplistic. So basic. ☦️

[dom]

Glory to God. Thank you Fr. Peter and Fr. Felippe for edifying us.

[thattimestampguy]

*Title: THEOSIS - The True Purpose of the Human Life*
September 25th, 2023 - The day this video was uploaded to YouTube.

Speakers of This Video Discussion
☦Hieromonk Felipe Balingit
☦Father Peter Heers

0:00 Title Sequence.
0:30 Thanks to Father Filipp for having this conversation with Fr. Peter Heers.
1:03 This is Going to Be a Talk On Theosis

*The Fall of Man* 💀
2:02
The Fall of Man from The Garden,
Man is Created In The Image and Likeness of God
In The Fall, Man Lost The Likeness of God.

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3:45 Thank God for preserving The Orthodox Fathers of this age.
7:30 On Theosis. Can Theosis be reached in this life?
11:17 Unceasing Prayer and The 1 Path To Salvation.
13:08 Theosis - Becoming, By Grace, Like God.
Theosis: The Transformation of The Whole Person, By Grace.

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14:37 Theosis is Not possible outside The Orthodox Church.
15:12 A Christ-Centered Life. A Full-Time Life, not part time.
20:03 The Role of The Church is to be accessible to Sincere, Christ-Seeking people.
21:29 A Personal Struggle along with God's Grace, God's Gifts.
- Get rid of the garbage
+ God stands at the door and knocks.
22:43 Open the Door every day.
Christ heals impaired human will. Part of Theosis is The Healing of The Human Will.
- People mistakenly think God turns Men into Slaves. This is not the case. It is to help man become Like Christ in Being, by Grace.
+ Becoming Fully Human, God-Man By Grace, Like Christ.
25:10 We were made for Theosis. Synergy.

☦On Temptation
26:03 Temptation Does Not come from God, but God allows it.
27:10 The Misunderstandings of mankind.

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28:12 + Faith + Trust + Healing + Synergy + Merciful + As Christ, Like Christ.
29:49
30:15 Going To Confession, exposing all of our sicknesses, not holding back.

☦Roadblock to Theosis
31:33 Lack of Will and Laziness.
33:55 "Lord, I deserve this, but please, help me."
35:23 Falling into Delusion.

☦ *The Hierarchy of Things*
36:26 What do you put at the top of your hierarchy/priorities?
38:53 Glory To Thee O God.
39:29 If you are disturbed by Worldly sin and corruption, Pray to God about this.
40:15 "The World is Suffering because we have taken Christ out of The Center."
41:53 Baptism is very important. Do not argue with The Saints. They are higher in The Spiritual Life than you.

☦The Jesus Prayer; the prayer rope, Elder Ephraim of Arizona.
43:11 The Jesus Prayer.
44:02 The Jesus Prayer: Purification & Illumination simultaneously, at the exact same time.
+ Calling to Christ to bring his presence, to illumine us.
+ Bringing Christ into the heart.

☦ The Cross
45:42 People seek to take away pain. What they do not understand, The Joy includes The Cross.
47:35 The problem of egotism.
48:54 The Beatitudes.

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51:23, 57:38 Denial of Uncreated Energies is unorthodox.
52:22 Intellectual, Academic Theologians ignore Theosis.
53:03 Immerse Yourself With The Gospel.
55:04 Know God, Know Yourself
58:35 The Person of Christ. 1 Person, 2 Natures, 2 Wills.
59:50 Doctors talk about sickness, that's what doctors do.
1:01:23 Dogma is there to guarantee the healing is correct.

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1:02:09 Repentance includes Christ, Repentance is a reorientation of a person towards Christ.
1:09:23 The Icons point us to Christ.
+ A Life Directed, Centered in, Christ.

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1:10:30 Mystagouge.
+ The Likeness of Christ is only possible in The Orthodox Church.
1:11:24 Expert Theologians.
1:13:00 No blessing to debate from Fr. Filipp.
1:14:20 "Why do we still commit sin, Father?" please, don't think you are above The Church.

☦The Great Gifts of Living a Spiritual Life.
1:17:03 Prophetic Clairvoyance, Knowledge of The Heart of others, these are lower-end gifts.
1:18:42 It is not for The Saint, it is for The Help and Love of Neighbor.
- How could a Saint maintain Spiritual Gifts and not become proud?
+ The Fruit of Theosis, For The Sake of Love, For Salvation of The Whole Body.
+ Good For Others Around Him.
+ Greater Increase In Love + Greater Increase of Communion.
1:21:00 Theosis is Within The Orthodox Church.
1:21:25 Love Without Willingness To Sacrifice is Not Sacrificial Love.
1:22:13 Love means He could not remain alone, it was an extension of His very being that He created Man.

Because we are Loved
We are moved to Love

1:23:10 You give bread, God gives His Body and Blood.
Giving and Getting
Giving and Getting

1:23:33 Very Beautiful.
Centered On The Person of Christ
1:24:20 Glory To God ☦

[glendamcgee]

I live an hour away from a true Orthodox Church and driving is a problem for me now. I wish I were closer. This is a great talk, transformative.

[jacob]

We need more content with Fr Felipe! There’s not much out there

[karens.]

Fr Peter, The content of your videos are being so helpful for me and I feel that is touching my husband’s heart too. I personally being trying to find Christ in my life, calling myself a Christian and yet not knowing anything about his traditional Church… heard about different doctrines and complete different philosophies Gnosticism, Buddhism, metaphysics while I was a curious Mormon… (while I was trying to find my spiritual path) Thank you! for putting this together and for the joy to hear Fr. Filipp to come in the help of our empty and weak soul. Thank you for uplifting me and reminding me how wrong I was❤ ☦️

[handmaidleah]

Glory to God for all things!! Thank you dear Fr Peter and Fr Fillip!!!

[nathanjohnson]

“What Christ is imparting to us is the healing of our human will.” 😢

[stavrouladeessegloria]

1:23:04
And the image of love is the CROSS ☦️❤️

[berwynsigns]

I'm Catholic but I got a lot from this. Thank you Frs. A lot to think about and let it change my mind and my actions. May we be one (John 17:20-21)

[rwdonohue]

The title in the thumbnail hooked me. Very good choice. I’m hoping, for my investigation into Orthodoxy, this episode lives up to it.

[ayonio]

Such a blessing to listen to this, a great encouragment!

[orthodoxboomergrandma]

Excellent! Just starting to listen. Thank you!

[Seekerx]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us and our world ☦ 🙏 🌍 🙏☦

[stavrouladeessegloria]

42:43 and on ☦️❤️
Purification and ilumination simultaneously in prayer

[wabasherie]

As one who wants to come into the Orthodox faith and out of Reformed protestantism, I will add a comment as someone who has had a life time of protestantism. It was always told to me that salvation is a single event. It is a change of heart, a mystical rebirth of one who is spiritually dead. Once we are saved, we are saved. What protestants refer to as sanctification is something else that comes about by obeying the teachings of Christ and the scriptures. Nothing mystical happens. We are simply more Christ-like and we do Christ-like things because we ARE saved. Doing good works is evidence of salvation and not a progression towards salvation. I was also taught (nothing about Eastern Orthodoxy) but that the alternative is Rome where good works are a way of earning salvation. The notion that theosis is a progession and not some sort of "earning" is hard to get a western mind around. I'm striving, and I'm more able to say more about what Theosis is not rather than what it is. Holy Baptism in the Orthodox church unites me to Christ's body, but salvation continues to develop and mature and grow as a participate in the church, its teachings, and its mysteries in all areas of my life . . . but I'm not earning/paying-for salvation. It is my understanding from Christ's sermon on the mount that good works unaccompanied by a devoted heart wanting to please God are nothing more than empty works. I hope I'm on the right track in my understanding. But, the key difference to me in the disconnect between protestant salvation and orthodox theosis is what I started with. Protestant salvation is a single event EVIDENCED by continuing in good works and not developed by good works.

[YahuahsRefiner]

Everyone is trying to become like God anyway. There is just one difference. Are you doing this under God's will, guidance and protection.. or are you doing it by yourself?

[nicktobin]

Father, you say without frequent communion we will not make progress. Will those of us who's mission only comes once a month be hindered?