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Andrew - Been away awhile, not posting much, talking to CAF some... Mostly working repentance... Covid19 is first and foremost spiritual warfare... I am engaged in that war... Nice to 'see' you again... A.

The atheist government of the USSR required priests to fully disclose the content of all confessions as a matter of national state security... It destroyed the Confessional of the Church in Russia - Nobody went to Confession... Ever... To place the matter in secular terms, if every person is...

All they can do is hear God's Call to Repentance and begin their life therein... If they do so, they are then Baptized INTO Christ, being therein conjoined with Him in Life... Even the non-Christian Jews and Pagans could hear, believe and obey the Gospel... Those who did so were Baptized into...

From the first three Gospels... I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Repentance and remission of...

God did not come into His Creation to condemn the world... But instead to Call sinners to repentance... You would do better to proclaim your forgiveness of those who sin against you... Rather than proclaiming your faith in God's condemnation of sinners... Arsenios

It had better be 2000 years, and the unbroken Communion of the historical Church... Arsenios

I was an atheist for 36 years and... From looking at smug self-proclaimed theists... Was perfectly right to cast them far from me... Smug condemnation of atheists is not Christian... It is not even close... Arsenios

Gosh - Sure is quiet around here... I def' heard a pin drop... Cheese Louise I say! A.

ουτως γαρ πρεπον εστιν ημιν For in this manner fitting it is to us... πληρωσαι πασαν δικαιοσυνην to fulfill all Righteousness... The text clearly states that by John baptizing Christ THEY - The two of them - fulfilled ALL Righteousness. This clearly rules out Baptism being a social...

Thank you... Will you please pray for me? Arsenios

You are stuck in the swirl of a back-eddy... Arsenios

You have no idea which translation is better than another... You do not get to re-write the Bible... Their translation is garbage because it omits a word from the Bible... Ours is the Bible of which yours is a VERSION... The Catholic Bible in Latin by Jerome is a VERSION of our Bible...

1 Corinthians 11:24 και ευχαριστησας εκλασεν και ειπεν And having given thanks He broke (it) and said: λαβετε φαγετε τουτο μου εστιν το σωμα Take, eat, this of Me IS the Body το υπερ υμων κλωμενον τουτο which for you is being broken τουτο ποιειτε This be ye doing... εις την εμην...

"Feed My sheep..." "I AM the bread come down from Heaven..." "Whosoever shall eat of this Bread shall have Life Eternal..." Do you think He meant soup kitchens and sausage and eggs breakfasts? Arsenios

You are speaking of your own church-speak and of yourself... I cannot speak for you or you for me... Of course you do - Carnal thinking here is the limit of your understanding... That is carnal and fallen human reasoning... Spiritual things are discerned spiritually... For your mind...

Here is St. John Chrysostom's commentary: "If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema." By this one word he strikes fear into all: those who made their members the members of an harlot; those who put stumbling blocks in the way of their brethren by the things offered in...

Our tenacious young friend has overlooked the fact that when Jesus said "Take... Eat... This My Body IS..." He was doing so with His Own unbroken flesh, stating it is broken when it is not yet broken... That consecrated Bread IS His Body - The Bread is... Not His meat... But the...

No it isn't... No it doesn't... No it doesn't... No it isn't... You are the only one doing so... Arsenios

Mystery is the ONLY thing that addresses the fact that The Blessed and Broken Bread IS His Body... And the Blessed Wine IS His Blood... "We hold the Mystery of the Faith in a pure conscience..." Paul's own words... You don't believe Christ, so I doubt you will believe Paul either... The...