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  1. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    That is a difference... Our Hymnal is the Psalter, and most of the Services are prayed directly from it by Chanting them in the 8 Tones... A 10 minute homily is plenty! But our Service of the Divine Liturgy goes an hour and a half or more as a general rule... The litanies, oft repeated...
  2. Arsenios

    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    He did exist... And Lazarus of Four Days fell asleep... Yet Lazarus the Suffering died and abode in the Bossom of Abraham... Mystery... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    Sleep perhaps means "be separated from God's Grace"... "Changed" means perhaps being "given unending life"... Non-existence is not an option... Condition of existence is... Life or death... Heaven or hell... God's Grace or self-isolation... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    Not true... Perfect love loves sinners... Perfect love calls sinners to repentance from sin... Not accepting them sinning... Which is who we are... He called sinners to repentance: Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
  5. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    One of the Lesser Mysteries around here is the perception that Orthodoxy is not Biblical... Indeed, 80% of our Services are directly from the Bible... Protestant Services are 80% Sermon from the human Pastor... Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Experiment.

    Proof Positive for any and all atheists that there IS a God! Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    An exercise I have found helpful is to imagine myself able to do anything I desired without any consequences whatsoever... That this is the condition of my soul after departure after this life... With no more resistance to sin at all... And then that I am passing through the realms of the...
  8. Arsenios

    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    One of the elders wrote that most who end up in torments are very surprised, imagining that they would not... "Depart from Me ye workers of lawlessness..." Hence I shudder and tremble, and beseech God for Salvation... And I pray for the Pharisee more than for myself... Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    "Be ye repenting, for the Kingdom of the Heavens, hath drawn nigh!" Matthew 3:2 We are enrolled in Heaven here on earth... Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    This is why confession of sin and repentance from it is the key to the acquisition of the love of God... But how can one confess a sin that one does not even know one has? Self-justification is such an insidious sin... How can one possibly love both Cain and Abel equally? Does not even God...
  11. Arsenios

    Are Catholics boring catechists?

    That was a funny post, Josiah - I'm not exactly sure why, and I didn't spit coffee reading it or anything, but I chuckled... And I would observe that only the RCC has an "official" catechism - And they have it in large part because they see themselves as having the responsibility to have it...
  12. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    "Love's not a Feeling" carries a truth, but not by denial of the feeling... Nor by endorsement of the feeling... So the truth is wrapped in the lie here... Look - If you do not feel love for the fallen, no matter how wretchedly sinful he or she might be, no matter how besotted with evil...
  13. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    The author who cited this text from St. Maximos the Confessor: know from this inequality (of love for friend and dislike of enemy) that you are far from perfect love, which lays down that you must love everyone equally. Went on to comment on the meaning of "lays down"... "The sense of...
  14. Arsenios

    Proverbs 26:4-5

    Which proves my dyslexic friend right again: !thereisadog! :):D:) A.
  15. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    I like to think of it as the doing of what is beneficial for another person... "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself..." is not just a nice sounding phrase meaning "leave people alone..." And yet some of the most profoundly social people are the almost antisocial hermits... Christians are...
  16. Arsenios

    PERFECT LOVE

    If you hate some people and some you neither love not hate, while others you love only moderately and still others you love very much, know from this inequality that you are far from perfect love, which lays down that you must love everyone equally. St. Maximos the Confessor Or as Paul...
  17. Arsenios

    Proverbs 26:4-5

    That is how I took it... Well, to begin with, everyone knows that God's Original Language is KJV, OK? God speaks KJV... All other versions are versions of God's Native Tongue, KJV, Got it? The problem with English translation of the Masoretes is that they left the meaning obscure... So going...
  18. Arsenios

    Athesist

    I think he meant Akathist... All clear now? A.
  19. Arsenios

    Thinking about Noah's ark

    Not exactly Ekklesiastical Iconography... Folks can get pretty indignant about the Church's Iconography... While they immerse themselves in demonic iconography all the time... Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    The fall

    I hadn't noticed that 17,000+ number before - I mean, you sound like an almost normal person, I say! Another of my famous theories... Wrecked on the Rocks of Reality! So I really liked that post even if it is but a spark in a whirlwind of similar posts, ok?? Sheesh! Gimme the remote, the...
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