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  1. Arsenios

    Civil discourse - On the Bodily assumption of the Blessed Virgn Mary into heaven.

    There is ample precedent... By taking responsibility to be repenting living repentant lives, we are often accused here of saving ourselves! When nothing could be further from the truth... Arsenios
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    And who can resist the Lord's Prayer sung in the language of our Savior? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AdPiRWIam0 Arsenios
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    Eastern Orthodox Only What makes an icon an icon and not just art?

    The icons in individual hands are extensions of the Body of Christ, which is the Church... Now a satanist can steal an icon, and it is still an icon, but is no longer functioning as an icon... Just as Judas was an Icon of Christ, having eaten His Body and drank His Blood, but then turned from...
  4. Arsenios

    Eastern Orthodox Only What makes an icon an icon and not just art?

    Here is a little intro by an iconographer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PITEH4FcDJ4 Arsenios
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    We have had some discussions - OK, Yes, That is a generous assessment of the exchanges - about the Faith in Children Baptized early into Christ... This one looks to be all of 7 years old... She is already chanting beautifully... And look at the clarity in her sweet face... Children know how...
  6. Arsenios

    LUKE 1:6 RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD

    Does the Righteousness of God INCLUDE... Or does God's Righteousness EXCLUDE... Human righteousness? Or can we be humanly unrighteous and Divinely righteous? Can we sin freely claim the Righteousness of God? How did that work out for Ananias and Sapphira? Arsenios
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    Civil discourse - On the Bodily assumption of the Blessed Virgn Mary into heaven.

    I do too... She is Jesus' Mom, after all... We should love Her as our own Mother... As we love Christ as our Father... And as our own Brother... She is the Glue of purity... Heaven and earth in Christ... From Her Holy womb... Arsenios
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    Eastern Orthodox Only What makes an icon an icon and not just art?

    The difference may be in the consecration of the iconographer, the consecration of the icon, and the use to which it is put... If you are asking me to define the difference in God's Grace accruing to a person who paints or creates his or her version of "Christian Art" and that accruing to the...
  9. Arsenios

    ORTHODOX STUFF

    Here again, from the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Holy Fire descends to light the candles of the Patriarch, and then the whole assembly at Pascha... At minute 5:12-13, as the Patriarch emerges from the cave with the Fire, you can see it shoot to the right [his left] and light candles some...
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    Can you lose your salvation?

    Thank-you, Menno... Fore-knowledge is a terrible thing... Prophetic Gifts are terrible... Can you imagine yourself walking in the world... And seeing everyone according to their sins... And according to their final disposition? And still loving them as God Loves the Kosmos? The Love of God...
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    Can you lose your salvation?

    :smirk: Finally!! I have been looking for some time now, you know... For this opportunity, you see... To finally slather you properly... With this emoji you have used... So relentlessly, you doG! A. :)
  12. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    We have NO power over these... Well, sprinkler management is not Orthodox, mind you! :) Our Baptizing does not compel God, but is COMMANDED BY God... We are only obeying His Commandment when we Baptize into Christ... THAT obedience makes our hands Christ's Hands... It is Christ Baptizing...
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    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    I know, but I had to ask! A rotten question, I know... That would not matter - Infant Baptism is a received Doctrine of the Church, and always has been... And for the Sola Crowd, the Church is the Ground and the Pillar of Truth... So its doctrines are not to be Biblically sneered at, Present...
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    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    The Orthodox argue that the Church is authoritative in matters of the Faith... The Latin Church argues that Rome is the Authority over the earthly Church... Pre-eminence perhaps, but not having power over - First Bishop, yes, a status of honor, not of power... For the good order of the...
  15. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    The son of man - Remember Him? He has the Authority to forgive sins, and does so through His Servants in the Apostolic Church, His Body on earth... God a Bible verse saying that? The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings, my Brother... And Salvation ain't over till the Last Judgement of...
  16. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    Salvation is entry INTO Christ, Who IS the King AND the Kingdom of Heaven... All prior sins are washed away in Baptism into Christ... NOT ALL, indeed not ANY future sins are forgiven... We are given a clean slate with Power to live in Christ at Baptism... IF we turn back to our sins, as...
  17. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    How else did every one of the Apostolic Churches for 2000 years consistently agree with one another on the matter were it NOT discipled by the Apostles TO them??? Yes, they did... Show me a Biblical household without infants... OK - So IF I can document infant Baptism in the Church prior...
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    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    It is adding the Church's witness of her BEING a Virgin without ceasing... A consistent witness held by all for the first 1500 years of the Faith of Christ... Correct... Scripture does NOT state that SHE had ANY other children... It states that Jesus had brothers, which He did, through the...
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    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    The Apostles INITIATED the Baptizing of infants... How ELSE would EVERY Apostolic Church world-wide have been practicing it from the beginnings... Look - Just show me ONE instance of ONE Church refusing to baptize an infant in the first, say, 200 years... Anywhere - Anywhere on earth...
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    Can you lose your salvation?

    We do both... The son of man has authority to forgive sins... We pray for our dead in Christ as they die and after they die... You will have to show me the passage that says there is nothing we can attain by our prayers for the dead... We live in prayer, my Brother... When the widow's son...
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