On the Presuppositions of Our Personal Salvation - Elder Cleopa of Romania

A reading of Chapter 13 from “The Truth of Our Faith” by Elder Cleopa of Romania, published by Uncut Mountain Press. Based thoroughly on the Holy Scriptures, Elder Cleopa ( 1998) answers questions from a Protestant inquirer on the nature of our personal salvation, free will, and predestination. Reformed Theology, especially the doctrines of Calvinism, are addressed directly by the holy Elder who expounds the teaching of the Orthodox Church from all generations, showing that it is “good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:4) and in God’s desire to save all men, His “grace does not work in us violently…” for “all are called to salvation, and that God gave His grace to overflowing, precisely there where sin abounded, in order to provide all men with the possibility of salvation.” This is one of 19 chapters from “The Truth of Our Faith”, each chapter a discourse teaching the tenets of Christian Orth