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  1. Arsenios

    Communion of the Saints

    If Paul in the flesh can help you, And for him to die is gain... How much more can he help you... After he gains through his death? Because he is alive... Believers do not die... God is not the God of the dead... But of the living... God is Glorified in His Holy Ones... To pray to a Holy One...
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    MATTHEW 25:31 SHEEP AND GOATS

    Repentance is unto Baptism into Christ's Death on the Cross... "Know ye not, Brethren, that we are Baptized into Christ's Death?" Paul's very words... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    MATTHEW 25:31 SHEEP AND GOATS

    John the Baptist proclaimed the Gospel... Christ proclaimed the identical Gospel after John was murdered... Peter proclaimed the same Gospel after Christ was crucified... And now we are to IMPROVE on that Gospel of Repentance? Do you not understand that repentance is UNTO forgiveness of...
  4. Arsenios

    Communion of the Saints

    I read it as Abraham declining to help the rich man's brothers, not because he could not, but because the "help" asked for would not help them... Nor indeed did it help them when Christ arose from the dead... Israel did not care... Arsenios
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    PERFECT LOVE

    We tend to not see the praxeological implications of theological doctrines... The difference between Judas and Peter should be clearly understood from a practical point of view... To say that both sinned and both repented and one was saved and one was condemned... Destroys as vanity the idea...
  6. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    So do you think that it is the sin, and not the repentance, that condemned Judas? I have always thought it was the failure of Judas' repentance that mattered... The Jews were corrupted - They freed bar-Abbas to condemn Christ... I will make it a point to never ever say that even once...
  7. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    An interesting take... He hanged himself according to his self-convicted crime in violation of the Law... The Law would not even convict him, so corrupted was it... Did you figure that out yourself? Or did you read it somewhere? Or did it just come to you? You see, the contrast of Peter...
  8. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    Back at ya! A. ps - Next post bring popcorn...
  9. Arsenios

    Communion of the Saints

    I found it interesting with that story that the condemned and un-named rich man could not help his own brothers... Yet he COULD ask Lazarus for help, for a little water... And he asked Abraham to warn his brothers... And Abraham did not say "I cannot..." He said it would do them no good...
  10. Arsenios

    Communion of the Saints

    Well thanks to Rich's post, I looked and the lexicon does not show Agios to be world or earth privative... And it sure looks like he is right... It seems to be a sort of primary word almost... Maybe related to geros which means honored, hence elderly or old... Meaning ageless? But even from...
  11. Arsenios

    Communion of the Saints

    Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. And if you say that because a Saint reposes that he is dead and gone... or that at least in heaven he cannot hear our prayers...
  12. Arsenios

    Communion of the Saints

    The word itself, Agios, is an A-privative before the word for world - gifs... It simply means unworldly... Saints lead un-worldly lives, consecrated fully to God... They are often miracle-workers, but not always... To become a Saint, one must love God with all one's strength, life, soul...
  13. Arsenios

    MATTHEW 25:31 SHEEP AND GOATS

    This is why the Good News Gospel is: Repent... For the Kingdom of the Heavens... Is at hand! Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    What about human suffering? How can God allow it?

    And miss out on martyrdom??? My bones go into the ground right here... Unless, of course, God tells me otherwise... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    Thank-you, and I agree... My additional point was that this repentance was SHALLOW... Giving back the money to those who had given it to you was not enough repentance... It was but the beginning of repentance, and much more was needed... And the proof that more was needed is seen in his...
  16. Arsenios

    Disciples and Believers

    Good thing neither of us said it then!! Are you in a bad mood perchance?? Or was that not a door I heard slam? Arsenios
  17. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    μεταμεληθεὶς metamelitheis is not metanoia... The first refers to regret - to feeling bad about something - When the feeling passes, it changes... The second refers to a change in the heart, in the core of a person - Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    Then please explain... I showed you my dilemma... And I was and am sincere... Often what seems obvious to one person is not to the other... Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    Back at ya! A.
  20. Arsenios

    ORTHODOX STUFF

    A pretty hot late 40's woman pulled over in an intersection in her car as I was crossing the street one day... Rolled down her window with a big inviting smile... "Grateful Dead?" she asked... So that is the poser - What to say that will be helpful... How to respond as an Icon of Christ...
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