/lit/ - Literature

>>19260667
What other anons mentioned, and
St. John of Damascus.
St. Maximos the Confessor.
St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (Dostoevsky's contemporary, very good for our troubled times).
St. Sophrony (Sakharov) (he was into Eastern stuff before he became a monk, so good for the modern Americans troubled by the advent of New-age).
Hieromatryr Daniel Sysoev is a very good modern author too. One of the few who were deeply Christian from childhood, who doesn't care about conforming to modernity and just speaks how Christian saints have spoken in more traditional times.

>>19263122
>"SATAN MESSAGES IN TEH ROCK N ROLL MUSICS"
Based. Pic related spoke about it too. That rhythm-heavy music is of a demonic nature, one which uses drums extensively and such.

>And He knows that there are still people that may be converted, to inherit His Kingdom.
>And a person is more important, you see: one person saved is more important than multitudes who perish.
This triggers the modernist.

>>15453975
>If you were brought up in a different culture, you wouldn't even know about Christ.
Many gentile nations converted to Christianity while having nothing to do with the region of Palestine or its culture.
>How do you know?
Because it is completely historical, unique, consistent and makes perfect sense of the entirety of creation once you are willing to drop your prejudiced modern thinking and hyper-skepticism (which is self-refuting and leads nowhere). Regarding witnesses, every martyr is a witness of Christ's sacrifice, emulating his willingness to lay down his life for us. We still have them to this day (see pic related, he converted many Muslims to the truth and was killed for it right in his church). Only someone influenced by modernity would say that the early martyrs who claimed to have seen the resurrection were just lying and chose death for no reason and did not actually believe in it. I trust the apostles and their account over anyone in modernity telling me otherwise.
>plenty of self-proclaimed prophets existed during his time
And where are their fruits? Where is previous prophecy alluding to them? The only major false prophet who had an impact on the world was just larping his own distorted version of nestorianized Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.
>Mysticism should be guided by some degree of rational insight
We believe that too, but this rational insight should be guided by revelation and the practice of the saints, not by personal preference.

>>15453916
>You believe even deceit and heinous crime can be forgiven if one repents on his or her deathbed.
>Such views are disgusting to me.
>I am believer in a different theistic system.
Why are you the arbiter of who can and cannot repent? Are you the god of your own theistic system?