My take on the 'Orthobros' trend, as countries that are not traditionally orthodox experience a surge in converts. How positive or negative is this trend?
Really interested in hearing people's thoughts.
For example, verses such as Exodus 4:24–26 or Deuteronomy 21:18–21—do you take such verses literally and read them as direct, divine commands, or do you interpret them symbolically and as allegories, as Origen did? Is it permissible to be Orthodox and interpret these verses as the corruption of Israelite priests who held a false image of God, or would that be heresy? Do you view such verses—and the Old Testament is full of them—as legitimate and literally God’s commands? And would it be blasphemy to believe that, if one takes these verses literally, the biblical God cannot possibly be good?