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  1. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    God knew, yes... But His foreknowledge did not cause Judas to betray Christ... Thinking so is a common error... Judas was free to keep on stealing from the money box and he did... He was also free to stop, or to seek Christ for help with stealing... He did not, and God knew he would not...
  2. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    Perhaps MC might chime in... At a mass for my friend, the homily was dedicated to a reasonably faithful rendition of his life - He was not all that faithful until he started dying of prostrate cancer - Yet I did not hear the prayers of absolution - I might have missed them... The Orthodox do...
  3. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    He had his Salvation, but being the son of perdition, he then betrayed Christ and lost it... Nor did he repent... He departed and did not remain... Unlike Peter, who did not betray Christ, but denied Him, and repented and was restored, having remained... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    Fine print, my Dear... Fine print... :) The point is they did NOT remain, yes? Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    A very reasonable understanding... Yet... The Apostolic Church for 2000 years baptizes 40 day old infants... You see, neither does the Bible forbid Baptism of infants... Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    My brother, it was not an acknowledgement that she had NOT YET had sexual relations... It reflected Her commitment to virginal purity and her life in prayer... It was Her placing HER REQUIREMENT in order for Her to consent to this pregnancy... Notice, for instance, that She suffered NO...
  7. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    Christianity is STILL an undercover operation... Makes the CIA look like kids playing in the sand-box! Which they ARE, I might add... :) Arsenios
  8. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    There is perhaps the last of the Churches in Syria that still to this day worships in Aramaic... They produced 2 more martyrs during the recent civil war... That Church proclaims the virginity of the Mother of God... I was simply illustrating in English the normal middle-eastern way of using...
  9. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    AP, YOU da MAN!! :) Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    Did Lucifer lose His? Did Judas lose His? Where in the Bible does it say that Judas was not truly saved? Does the expression "Not truly Saved" even occur in the Bible? Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    Totally relevant... It establishes her stance... Look - Let's say your daughter is about to get married - She is engaged/betrothed to her husband to be, And is looking forward to having children right away... and an angel comes to her and tells her she will have a baby... I should think her...
  12. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    The only point I was seeking to establish accords with the Great Commission of Christ to His 12... Because it is not the writings that disciple the nations, printed word to isolated mind... But Paul says "Be ye imitators of me imitating Christ..." or words to that effect... Early Christians...
  13. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    Good post but needs an editor to revise it for basic coherence... .
  14. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    Are you wary of this?: 2Th 2:15 Therefore, brethren, be ye standing firm, Always a good idea in matters of the Faith of Christ, yes? and holding in power the traditions Does this wobble you? It did not wobble the early Church... The differences in their Holy Tradition are almost all...
  15. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    The Bible says we are Baptized into Christ... And records Christ saying: "Suffer the little children to come unto Me... For of such as these is the Kingdom of the Heavens..." So where is the heresy? Our faulty Baptism??? Baptism in water? When Baptism in Water is everywhere in the New...
  16. Arsenios

    Mary and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

    Her decision to not know a man happened early... That is why she questioned the Angel when he said she would conceive... "How can I conceive when I am not knowing a man?" You will notice the Angel did not give her anything but respect with his reply... Unlike all others who question the...
  17. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    I have a friend who lied his way into the EOC in his Confession... He ended up delusional and was sent to state psychiatric hospital... Where he completed his confession to psychiatrists there... God will not be mocked... He is now Roman Catholic... I told him this Faith is REAL... He did...
  18. Arsenios

    Can you lose your salvation?

    Yes! A. ps - Almost a joke...
  19. Arsenios

    The undisclosed age of “X”

    We Baptize newborns into Christ at 40 days of age... And they do not have to know Jack Schnartznikoff about nuttin'!! "Suffer the little children unto Me!" 3 year olds are some of the cutest and most pious Christians ever! Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    The undisclosed age of “X”

    Does someone keep the Holy Spirit away from babies do ya think??? The Disciples tried it with Christ... And they were sternly rebuked! Arsenios
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