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  1. Arsenios

    Can the Faith of Parents Save Their Children?

    You are preaching to the choir... The issue is God's ekonomia that he prescribes for His Salvation... Ananias GAVE Saul the Holy Spirit, yes? And we both know for a fact that he could not do so, right? Yet he did so, did he not? ONLY God CAN give the Holy Spirit Who IS God, right? Yet God...
  2. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    Judgemental hypocrisy is what put me off of ALL western Christianity for my first 51 years of life... Protestant Judgementalism of Catholics has helped no Catholics... Catholic Judgementalism of Protestants has helped no Protestants... Hypocrisy is rampant on all sides... And we are...
  3. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    You are a liar... Do you have a problem with that? You are a liar... Because you answered the "honest question": "Have you ever told a lie?" So you are a liar, and I do not like liars... And neither do you... And by my so-called phony "honest question", you are tricked into either denying...
  4. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    The Church is the Communion of the faithful baptized into Christ... Are you suggesting that these two are in the same Church and its Communion? Because he is bandying about going up to people he does not even know, and accusing them of being liars and adulterers in an effort to get them to...
  5. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    Well, some of the Church Fathers have reported that many of those Christians who do not attain Paradise after their repose are very surprised - Thinking they belong in Paradise and finding themselves in anything but Paradise... I fear your champion may fall into this category, imagining himself...
  6. Arsenios

    Can the Faith of Parents Save Their Children?

    Well then, there is this - The Conversion of the Jailer The Philippian Jailer Converted Act 16:25-34 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken...
  7. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    Christ failed with most of the Jews... And you are right, God does the conversions... Yet Paul and Peter and Christ worked by showing the Faith in Works of Power... They did not approach people by hurling accusations at them... THAT is what Saul did prior to his conversion, and he not only...
  8. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    I have seen him convert atheists some years back... Perhaps that is the niche suited to his confrontational style... Doing what he does to people of faith will mostly fail... Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    It doesn't matter, Menno... The confrontation did not end with her conversion... It did not place her closer to God... All it did was condemn her... Show me th God-connection that results from such encounters that slander the person encountered... No matter if the slander is true or if it...
  10. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    Assuming you are correct, how does a street confrontation with her help her soul... There was so much yuck I did not watch the entire video, but such confrontations do not end up with someone turning to God as their consequence... Street confrontations attacking a person's core beliefs is...
  11. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    You cannot trust in your goodness... You have to be willing to trust in God... And that takes training and effort... For we are fallen far from Him... That is why Christ established His Body on earth... To Disciple all the nations... Teaching them all He had commanded them to do... Baptizing...
  12. Arsenios

    The Coming Civil War Over Abortion

    Yes. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B079LY9D18/ref=atv_dl_rdr?autoplay=1 Yes... It is... And perhaps there are degrees... And conception, not implantation... Some fertilized eggs never implant... Yes... Yes... Yes... We need to learn to walk in a sacred manner... That...
  13. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    Just trying to live a decent life is a start... Failure to do so is a help... A rebuke... Perfect is the enemy of Good... We always stand in this life at the cross-roads of Good vs evil... And we are free to choose either... Less so as we get older and older... And more mature in the...
  14. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    We need a Savior because we are both good and evil... And our God is a Jealous God... And will have nothing to do with evil... We need Salvation from evil... And His Life to walk in the Way of Good... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Lukewarmness

    Exactly why his efforts are (demonically) not helpful... That is NOT HOW to save souls... It IS HOW to harden hearts... Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    The Spoiled Poor

    Gaming the system is a time honored tradition... The best of its practitioners are the State Administrators themselves... It is how privilege is kept to the select few... I was looking to register a home-made boat trailer, and my administrative friend offered me his generic registration to...
  17. Arsenios

    The Coming Civil War Over Abortion

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-7gw1yVio Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    The Coming Civil War Over Abortion

    How do you think this "pious legend" made its way into the Holy Gospels? Everything is by the Holy Spirit... Even human senses... And Elizabeth is recorded and being filled with the Holy Spirit... Yes... Saying there is not person until 12 days after conception has not been established...
  19. Arsenios

    Credobaptism

    He was on a killing mission to persecute Christians who were causing so much trouble in Judea... He was a true-believing zealot of the Pharisees... And he has just been blinded and knocked to the ground by the Risen Christ... He had just been Called by God... Granted, in a not exactly...
  20. Arsenios

    The Coming Civil War Over Abortion

    There is nothing more fundamental than the person in human existence... I am way more than half persuaded that it is your person that is the Image of God in which you were created... More fundamental by far than your soul... And it is your soul that is immortal... Yet it is YOU who are...
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