Dogmas are not human postulates, clearly formulated, but the divine truth about God--a truth which people themselves could not possibly arrive at had it not been revealed to them by God. Truth can be investigated, truth can be known, truth can be proven, but truth cannot be contrived. . . .
Heresy is a departure from the divine truth and not from the opinion of the majority.
--Elder Ambrose of Optina, pp. 174, 175
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