#apostolic

[belovedapollo]

Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, Iran • visited in 2022 reblog is okay, don’t repost/use

[sewercentipede]

Myself, in Vank Cathedral (Armenian Apostolic Church), Esfahan, Iran on April 20, 2018

[brotherwaingro]

Forgetting the True Christ, Part 1:

The Rise of Monothelitism

Monothelitism did not arise from open rejection of Christ but from a desire for peace without cost and unity without depth. In a Church exhausted by controversy it offered a simplified Christ one who acted with divine authority but did not truly struggle as man. By removing the human will of Christ it removed the hardest and most essential part of the Incarnation.

This temptation did not disappear with the seventh century. It reappears whenever Christians desire a Christ who saves without demanding repentance who heals without requiring obedience and who comforts without calling for transformation. The error lives on not always in doctrine but in attitude and practice.

The faith confesses that Christ is fully God and fully man. To be fully man is to possess a human will capable of fear hesitation obedience and surrender. The human will is not a flaw to be overcome but the very place where salvation must occur. When Christ assumes a true human will He enters the deepest wound of fallen humanity and begins its healing from within.

In the garden of Gethsemane Christ reveals the heart of salvation. He prays not My will but Yours be done. This is not symbolic language nor a dramatic gesture. It is the moment where the human will freely and lovingly aligns itself with God. Adam grasped at autonomy. Christ offers obedience. Where the first man fell through disobedience the New Adam stands through surrender.

Modern Christianity often rushes past this moment. It prefers resurrection without the long night of prayer victory without endurance and grace without repentance. When Gethsemane is forgotten the Cross becomes a symbol rather than a path. Faith becomes affirmation rather than participation.

Monothelitism once promised unity by minimizing struggle. Today many forms of Christianity promise relevance by minimizing depth. Both approaches flatten the mystery of Christ. They present a Savior who does everything for us but never truly works within us. The result is a faith that inspires but does not transform.

The true vision of salvation is different. Christ heals humanity by living a fully human life in perfect obedience to the Father. He sanctifies the human will by exercising it rightly. Salvation then is not escape from humanity but its restoration. We are saved not by having our will erased but by having it healed and offered back to God.

When the human will of Christ is ignored obedience becomes optional ascetic struggle is dismissed and holiness is redefined as comfort. The life of prayer fasting repentance and perseverance begins to feel unnecessary or even harmful. Yet these are precisely the means by which the human will is restored to freedom.

To return to the true Christ is to return to the whole Christ. The Christ who trembled before death who obeyed in love who endured suffering and who freely offered His human will to the Father. Only this Christ can heal us because only this Christ truly shares our condition.

To confess Him rightly is not only to speak correct words but to walk the path He walked. Day by day we place our fractured wills into His hands trusting that in Him they will be made whole.

[cosmick-folk]

Gonna be honest for a sec,

I have felt exponentially and increasingly safer among the freaks and sexual "deviants" (just unconventional gay and trans folk) than I ever have felt when I was among Evangelical Christians for the first two decades of my life.

I'm so fucking glad I escaped.

[bewitchingblues]

im finally learning to accept my upbringing in that outdated, contemptuous cult-like excuse for a christian denomination. im no longer full of disdain or judgement from it. I’ll never get my head around how they would listen to the same sermons and read the same book I did. yet, they have become lost in their own abhorrence. I find myself grateful for many of the teachings I was given. however, I am more grateful that even at a young age I could be resistant to their persistent and occasionally cruel indoctrination. so basically, I would like to give a big thank you to those moments in the b*ble where kindness, good-will, and peace prevailed. also, a big fukkkkkyou to the hypocritical j*sus lovers in my hometown xoxo

[spurgie-cousin]

it's been a minute since I've posted about Apstolic fashion (usually uhh not my cup of tea) but why did every single one of these ladies kinda slay with the shoes??

[apostolic-company]

Happy Monday Everyone!~~ We hope you had a great weekend! We have been doing the usual planning of birthdays, weddings, and other formal engagements. That said, these type of dresses are perfect for the season.!

This dress is called "Bailey" and it comes in emerald and dusty blue in S/M - XL. Check them out while they last at apostolicclothing.com

[spiritualwanderlust]

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." -- Ephesians 4:31-32