/lit/ - Literature

>>19348555
Dogma is just explication of revealed personal truth. All of the saints experience the same truth because it is the same Living God revealing it to them. There is an objective truth and dogma is just a formulation of it, explicated to stop people from wandering off into delusion and insanity like worshipping idols for example, which is nothing more than communing with fallen angels (all of this is discoverable directly and experimentally, the buddhist demons tremble at Christ's name which makes zero sense if all religions are the same). If you "practiced" Orthodoxy as you claim, you should have known that we teach a personal connection with God, Who is the Holy Trinity. There is no other way to Truth, Christ said nobody gets to the Father except through Him.

If you really want the truth, maybe you will be interested in St. Sophrony Sakharov and his writings on Buddhism and other eastern religion.
https://findingthewaytotheheart.blogspot.com/2014/03/hinduism-and-buddhism-offer-form-of.html
https://thoughtsintrusive.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/elder-sophrony-on-eastern-religions/

>>19348581
>I am no foreigner to church service.
You are a foreigner to the body of Christ in virtue of the beliefs you hold. You can go through all of the rituals and still be spiritually dead, in fact the sacraments condemn someone who has no faith (or wilfully wrong faith) and participates in them. It is peak Pharisaism to think that merely being born into something means you understand it or know it in any intimate sense.

"Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’"

>>19348599
>There is one ultimate truth, which manifests in a variety of forms and contexts.
How do you know? Did this "abstract monadic truth" reveal this to you? That it manifests in different valid contexts? Because the God we worship revealed to us the exact opposite. Why is our religion at its most deepest mystical core not also part of your perennialistic scheme if all religions really are the same in substance?