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So either God thinks that this is fine, that maybe the "Truth" is also beyond the Orthodox Church or God will soon intervene again. I don't see a third alternative God allows a lot of things He does not think is fine. Did He think the Fall was fine and all the suffering and death that has come about as a result of this?

We actually have had some very long discussions on this issue of the OC being the one true church and mostly there has been very little clarity and lots of confusion. The most fruitful of these starts about here and goes on for a couple pages. God of course is intervening all the time, and who during the Arian controversy knew how it was going to turn out? After all it took hundreds of years for this issue to settle. Knowing what God thinks or what He is going to do, or trying to interpret history in a spiritual light rather then according to our human logic is beyond me.

Certainly we see something encouraging in our time with the Church Fathers being translated into other languages besides Greek and thus made available to a larger public. We see a high degree of interest in Church history and tradition here in the west. We see even the Orthodox rediscovering their own faith and the faith of their Fathers, not merely as a cultural way of life, but as something universal and spiritual.

This too is where we each as individuals can go as we seek the One Church and try to discover Her in Her reality and fullness. If God has given us here in this time and this place an oppertunity to examine the faith of our Fathers in a way that has not been possible in past generations, let's take advantage of it.