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#425460 05/19/25 03:41 PM
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How do we reconcile the Byzantine Catholic belief in the uncreated energies of God (and the essence-energies distinction) with the Latin Church's belief in created grace and absolute divine simplicity. I have been told as a Byzantine Catholic that our faith is the same as the Latin Church, and that any differences we appear to have are only in theological expression and not in substance. But created vs uncreated grace seems pretty substantive to me as this would lead to wildly different conclusions on who God is and how we relate to Him. I know there are plenty of threads already debating the EED so that is not what I am looking for here, but more specifically, how do we reconcile what we believe with what the west believes and not hold it in contradiction?

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You don't have to reconcile them. Try not to let the differences bother you. At the end of the day, it's all speculative theology. Christ didn't call us to be theologians, He called us to be saints. Take the Eastern approach and chalk it up to mystery. God isn't going to judge us based on our understanding of theology when we die.


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