Yet another heresy: "Universal Justice"

Metropolitan Agafangel, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

February 13/26, 2024

Very true and timely are the words of Saint Theophan: “Throw out of your head the ravings about the good of the people and humanity.” The aspiration to establish “the good of all humanity” on earth is a struggle against the Heavenly Kingdom, direct unbelief and opposition to Holy Scripture—a deed essentially satanic, which has been thoroughly proven by centuries of such attempts. Rebellions in the name of this goal were usually led by God-fighters desiring to seize power over nations (for example, the Freemasons), and such slogans were promoted to simple people by outright deceivers to win them over (for example, the communists).

Ideas of “universal justice,” and even more so, calls to “struggle for it,” in the light of Orthodoxy are heresy—it is inadmissible to deceive oneself and to hope for an unattainable “universal justice” here on earth. All the more is this inadmissible for a church organization (one may recall the Moscow Patriarchate in the USSR, which declared the ephemeral goals of communism to be its mission—supposedly, that the attainment of the “bright future of all humanity” is the traditional goal of Christianity). Yet another ruinous heresy (for many people—in the most direct sense, both earthly and Heavenly), for which the Moscow Patriarchate does not even think of repenting.

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As Saint Theophan teaches in his letters to his spiritual children — live in the circumstances in which you live, pray to God and love your neighbors, act toward people as the Lord commanded — and you will be saved. Of course, there are cases when there are persecutions and threats to life — then flee from this threat, if you do not wish or do not see the meaning in struggling against it. This is how the Lord Himself acted, and how His disciples acted.

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The idea of “universal justice” is alive, and unfortunately, will live until the end of this world — it is used by various globalists, and many simple people are deluded by it, ultimately finding themselves in the nets of political forces behind which the devil hides. On the basis of this satanic idea, various political projects are built — from the “Russian world” to the “European Union.”

The Moscow Patriarchate, being a creation of Stalin, has proven incapable of freeing itself from his dead embrace to this day, and evidently will not be able to do so in the future. Thus, in our time, the Kremlin heirs of the communist dictator, with the help of the Moscow Patriarchate, are attempting to forcibly impose upon Ukraine their satanic Soviet heresy. Truly satanic, since one of the main ideas of the 20th and 21st centuries is the union of the incompatible — Christ and Belial, Orthodoxy and communism, the red and the white idea. The Moscow Patriarchate, in combination with the Stalinism inseparable from it, is SATANISM. And this evil is now being spread under the guise of "historical Russia," which was in fact destroyed by these very satanists. Their founders and "earthly" fathers are the Soviet God-fighters; it is from them that the current Moscow authority, both political and “spiritual,” takes its origin. It has no other origin — as is clearly demonstrated now in the example of Ukraine. Those believers in the Russian Federation who think they are within Orthodoxy are, to great sorrow, mistaken. In reality, they profess materialistic Stalinism without realizing it. Truth cannot be mixed with falsehood, and in the Moscow Patriarchate they form an inseparable unity — therefore, those who think they abide in the truth are in fact abiding in falsehood. A truly believing Orthodox Christian cannot remain in a community in which even the slightest part is mixed with falsehood.

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When they shall say, "peace and safety," then sudden destruction cometh upon them (1 Thess. 5:3).

God grant that the time may come when believing people, not only in the Russian Federation, but throughout the world, with the help of God, will be able to separate the wheat from the chaff — will cleanse Orthodoxy from the foreign Soviet imprint. Only then will the revival of true Christianity be possible — for when combined with evil, the Orthodox faith is defiled and turns into its opposite.

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It is impossible for us to be deceived and deluded. We must firmly believe that true justice and true peace are possible only in the Kingdom of God, which cannot be established by men on earth. And the Kingdom of God begins in the soul of a person and in the church community, where one must strive with all one's strength to establish Christian relations — this is entirely sufficient for us, and nothing more is needed.

 

Russian source: http://odessa.ruschurchabroad.org/ru/mitropolit-agafangel-eschjo-odna-eres