Avarice “Our needs for material goods suggest to the mind a lengthy old age.” “I will not be able to provide for myself.”.Lust – to desire the body of a person and not to desire the person.Context – a brief sketch of the life of Evagrius.The first video in the series Dr Allen provides: Before approaching the content, Professor Allen would approach the context, the genesis of idea. Diogenes Allen adopts the same name for this series. “ The Eight Deadly Thoughts“, takes its name from one of the chapters in On Practice by Evagrius Ponticus (c 346-399), a Desert Father. Other videos will be linked to the outline below.ĭiogenes on Spiritual Theology – ” … one of the things I found … through all spiritual writers, that is people who are concerned with bringing to fullness, in our lives, the work of Christ, and that’s the work of God the Holy Spirit….all of them agree that after we are converted we can expect ourselves to be assailed by eight deadly thoughts.” The short video attached is the introduction to the video series, they are relatively short so easy to listen to, even if you are tight on time. When we entertain these thoughts, our thoughts are not free to dwell on the things of God. The problem is when we dwell on, indulge, or act on these thoughts that they become sin. ![]() These thoughts assail us unbidden – It is important to realize that the thoughts themselves are not sin. ![]() “These eight deadly thoughts are like cholesterol, they fill the arteries, so to speak, and the flow of the Spirit is not able to get through easily, and sometime, choked off all together.”
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