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Trying to work backwards from Greek words
to their definitions
to their usages
in a wide variety of contexts...
And from there to their theological meaning in the Bible
regarding Church Dogma
is a sketchy venture...
And especially so when done
outside the Faith and Praxis
of the Body...
Orthodoxy for Enquirers...
Should we argue for this Faith?
Why become Orthodox?
Why NOT to become Orthodox...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XezBHcYO8kE
Arsenios
And here is a Baptism in Ethiopia where Christianity was started under Queen Candace by the Ethiopian Eunuch through Philip in Acts...
This one is scary to me at my age... Ethiopian Christians are some kinda folks -
Always joyful in a piety that always puts me to shame...
This pilgrimage by...
Cars are transportation, so do you guess that airplane-transports are cars?
Did ya like the look on that diapered kid getting immersed?
That's the most adult infant face I think I ever see-ed!
Arsenios
Not even BABIES get to be SISSIES!!!
61 seconds of manly babies...
Not even a wet diaper, I say! :):)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFGHerqhSC8
Arsenios
Now for all you SISSIES out there!!!
This is how REAL MEN get Baptized in Russia!!!
Winter ICE is no problem!!!
Brace yourself for 56 seconds of manly Baptisms!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRiid5ERd0
Arsenios
We have a story out of the Desert in Egypt, where three young men, two Christian and one not, got lost...
And they ran out of water, and food, and were getting very very weak and unable to keep walking...
And the non-Christian, seeing death approaching, said he wanted to be baptized before he...
There is, to be sure, something that is just, well, WRONG...
With the whole expression that would then ensue, you see...
About the resultant condition of Salvation being described...
As that of one being PICKLED in the Holy Spirit, yes?
NO vinegar in the Baptismal Waters of Regeneration...
Well, if Evangelicals do NOT Canonize Saints, then HOW do they call ANYONE a Saint?
Calling EVERYONE who is a Christian "Saint Carl", as an example, would sound really phony if done consistently...
We (EOC Behemoths) have living saints in our midst,
And yet would NEVER call them a Saint...
I should have added that such a killing is a nightmare for the child...
The entire loving universe that the mother is for that child becomes sinister and murderous...
As the child fights to retain its life...
Fetal child survivors have amnesia for such an event...
Yet its memory is...
Ya Gotta watch it with these rants, Josiah - Especially when you jump on someone for ignoring Tradition in the name of Sola Scripture and then holding a view that is Nolo Scriptural...
I mean, you better be really really careful here...
Because, you scruffy dog you...
Ye're a-gonna end up...
The hearts and minds matters need God...
Opting for sexual encounters without responsibility is a real error...
We need to learn to see each other as parents, not sex toys...
As to the latter, I saw the concert, bought the t-shirt, and have burned it...
At great cost...
Arsenios
We read this in Scripture:
Joh 21:22
Jesus saith unto him,
If I will that he tarry till I come,
what is that to thee?
Follow thou me.
And we follow John's life to see what actually happened to him...
And we find, like Mariam, that we have no primary relics from him either...
He was...
So then we look to his life, and we find out that we have no primary relics of his body,
and that his body was not found in the tomb in which it had been buried either, like the Theotokos...
I can tell you this: that when I heard we have never had the body of John the Evangelist, and yet that...
It is the teaching of the Apostlic Church of Christ in all places and at all times...
You don't know them...
Her relics are in none of them...
Arsenios
There was one tomb...
Thomas as usual came a week late...
This time for Her funeral...
He wanted to say goodby to her...
So the Apostles went to the tomb...
Opened it for their tardy brother...
And all that they found in the tomb...
Was Her sash - Her body was not there...
We still have that...
Here is a very short Orthodox article on the death of Judas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jPeknCiH9U
States that the tree Judas hanged himself from bent and lowered him to the ground...
So he survived his own hanging...
I had not heard that account...
I always assumed he killed himself...