{"id":2724,"date":"2021-03-13T04:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T11:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2021-03-13T04:11:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T11:11:48","slug":"never-has-there-been-such-an-age-of-false-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"Never has there been such an age of false teachers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/index.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/index.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2725\" width=\"350\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/index.jpg 700w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/index-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/index-378x230.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNever has there been such an age of false teachers as this pitiful twentieth century, so rich in material gadgets and so poor in mind and soul. Every conceivable opinion, even the most absurd, even those hitherto rejected by the universal consent of all civilized peoples \u2014 now has its platform and its own \u2018teacher.\u2019 A few of these teachers come with demonstration or promise of \u2018spiritual power\u2019 and false miracles, as do some occultists and \u2018charismatics\u2019; but most of the contemporary teachers offer no more than a weak concoction of undigested ideas which they receive \u2018out of the air,\u2019 as it were, or from some modern self-appointed \u2018wise man\u2019 (or woman) who knows more than all the ancients merely by living in our \u2018enlightened\u2019 modern times. As a result, philosophy has a thousand schools, and \u2018Christianity\u2019 &#8211; a thousand sects. Where is the truth to be found in all this, if indeed it is to found at all in our most misguided times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>In only one place is there to be found the fount of true teaching, coming from God Himself, not diminished over the centuries but ever fresh, being one and the same in all those who truly teach it, leading those who follow it to eternal salvation. This place is the Orthodox Church, the fount is the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, and the true teachers of the Divine doctrine that issues from this fount are the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+ Fr. Seraphim Rose (1934-1982), as printed in the biography&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1887904077\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1887904077&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=orthchurquot-20\">Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works<\/a> <\/em>by Hieromonk Damascene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNever has there been such an age of false teachers as this pitiful twentieth century, so rich in material gadgets and so poor in mind and soul. Every conceivable opinion, even the most absurd, even those hitherto rejected by the universal consent of all civilized peoples \u2014 now has its platform and its own \u2018teacher.\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}