Orthodox Ethos and the Demon Girl

[eish]

If they are getting sermons from Satan, and he is answeing there questions, doesn't that explain a lot?
I am not saying this to be humorous, because I find this to be very tragic. Is calling it a mini-Pentecost blasphemous? It seems even protestants with their misunderstandings have a clearer picture of Pentecost than what is reported in this story. I also don't understand why anyone would post this story. It certainly doesn't paint anyone in a good light. This may really backfire, whatever the intended purpose of the blog post is.

Prots who call it a descent of the Holy Spirit when they cluck like chickens and bark like dogs? Nah, you give them too much credit.

The lack of discernment in this story illustrates the failure of man to think in his fallen state. Yes, the demonic sermon is a bad idea. It's the failure of the New Calendarists to understand why this is different from the Desert Fathers asking a question of a demon--or any true exorcist--which proves their fallen reasoning to be not from the Truth.

When a Father of old encountered a demon and asked the spirit after binding it what sin it loved most, he was acting in the true faith and simply getting an answer which firstly the demon might want to talk about, and which secondly could not really do harm or expose him to delusion.

Compare this story. Every false religion does exorcisms and they all claim to bind spirits in various ways. You can go to Fr. Ripperger and he'll tell you all about how demons confess to the truth of Roman Catholicism. They're not bound by anything coming from false religions. They're happy to play along for a few hours and confirm fools in their delusions.

In other words it is ipso facto impossible to find out where true faith lies from a demonic encounter. If the demon is bound by the power of Christ to say the truth it will say that the exorcist is in the true Church because it is being forced. If it is not--because he is not in the Church--it will also say so because it wants to.

A pointless question. Unless one wants to be misled. Humour is a great teaching tool. It gets attention and people remember what you tell them. Don't be afraid to mock this one.

[Barbara]

Yes, you are right about the very clumsy attempt to tarnish Old Calendarists, StIgnatius.
[I just saw eish's reply so i'll read that now.]

The point was not even made clearly. Readers can infer that Old Calendarists are devils. Or, directed by the Devil to sow dissension.

To me, there was one accurate statement in the entire bizarre story. That is that the devil/demons enjoy stirring up arguments.

But there is a big difference between people making rightful objections [Old Calendarists not wanting to go along with the New Calendar] and the Devil inciting rifts between individuals or among family members, or members of the same parish, etc. JUST to cause acrimony, from which the Devil directly benefits.
THAT is what is to be avoided. Not reasonable challenges like the Old Calendarists have made.

Fr Joseph pointed out in the video that the number of True Orthodox is growing fairly fast due to people leaving the New Calendar churches, so the message must be getting across finally. Though rather late compared with the 1920s.

Better late than never !!!