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Dr. Jacobs, another question if you allow:
Doesn't your suggestion of a possibility of "a developing “cosmic organism” from which emerges every form of life" contradicts the doctrine of logoi - the unchangeable divine ideas of the generic natures of the creatures? Doesn't philosophical realism is based exactly on this Orthodox Christian doctrine?
Dr. Jacobs, I have found another quote to correct another inaccuracy: if I understood you correctly you was saying that God the Son is obeying God the Father. That's what st. John writes about it:
"Moreover, the blessed Paul the Apostle says, He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:8 But obedience is subjection of the real will, not of the unreal will. For that which is irrational is not said to be obedient or disobedient. But the Lord having become obedient to the Father, became so not as God but as man. For as God He is not said to be obedient or disobedient. For these things are of the things that are under one's hand , as the inspired Gregorius said. Wherefore, then, Christ is endowed with volition as man".
(St. John of Damask. On the Orthodox faith. Book 3. Ch. 14)
I don't want to be a person who doing nothing himself just criticizes others... I am sorry if such critics are annoying, but I really want your series to be as perfect as possible. I hope you are not annoyed too much with my comments.