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  1. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    No Catholics here seem to want to engage you on this point, Josiah... ...EITHER... You have overwhelmed them with the brilliance of your keen intellect... ...OR... They just don't like talking to you for some other reason that reflects badly on THEIR moral character... Either way it is a...
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    Sinless Mary

    Well, it does show the begging of the questions: Does man have control over sin? If yes, how much? If no, then what? Is there a relationship between doing sin and Salvation by God? Is the Call of God to Repentance from Sin sufficient to begin repenting from sin? Is the Perfecting of the Faith...
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    North Sentinal Island untouched by The Gospel

    It was preached to them, and they killed the preacher... The end seems nigh... Arsenios
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    North Sentinal Island untouched by The Gospel

    That dream is a keeper... Let no one take it from you... God Bless You Brother... I came that route... Most do not... And most coming that route... Do not even survive... Great Gifts from God are Given To those who come through great tribulations... Whose faith is proven in such fires...
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    From the above... Arsenios
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    The problem is that Calvin begins with the legalistic notion of Crime and Punishment, where God condemns all in His Righteous Indignation but dips out a few keepers for Himself based on nothing anyone can do as fallen now... Orthodoxy begins with the Love of God and His sending of His Son to...
  7. Arsenios

    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    They are given on the basis of His foreknowledge... Romans cannot be more clear: Rom 8:29 For whom He did foreknow, He also did foreordain (predestinate) to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did...
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    I do not presume to explain the Foreknowledge of God as you just did here... "My thoughts are not your thoughts..." God's very words... Arsenios
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    Nor will I... The Salvation of demons is above my pay grade... So is the Salvation of your soul... Arsenios
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you. Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for many so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of...
  11. Arsenios

    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    It is not possible for the dead to merit Life, and we who are fallen are all born to die... Christ Himself died... (granted, only voluntarily giving up His soul...) Christ is the only one to merit Life, because He IS Life... That is why we are Baptized INTO Christ... Christ is where Life IS...
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    The elect are so by the fore-knowledge of God... They are not so by His designation of privilege... Rom 8:29-30 For whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-ordain to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did foreordain...
  13. Arsenios

    ORTHODOX STUFF

    I watched the same part of the Service that M/C provided, and the contrast is profound... While in Romanian, so the words cannot be understood, I will see if I can find one in English... This is the service we do at every Divine Liturgy, every Sunday, and in our parish three times a week...
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    And then there is the Epiclesis, the "Calling down upon" of the Holy Spirit upon the Bread and the Wine... This one is Romanian and very beautiful... https://youtu.be/92QfdG2HEUU Arsenios
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    6 Problems Christians Have with the Christian Worldview

    So what exactly IS the "Christian world-view"?? I always kinda thought we were to overcome the world in Christ, so what would an "overcoming the world" kind of "world-view" be? Arsenios
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    Who is he? A Bishop from somewhere... A Metropolitan perhaps? Who knows what those eyes are seeing... His is the monastic mitre... The first is the Patriarchal Mitre... Arsenios Just saw George's post - Archbishop Demetrios - Greeks are always questionable... :)
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    This one is to just turn on at med-low volume and leave it on as your soul-balm for 4 hours while you do other things... No need to even understand the words... The music speaks for itself... https://youtu.be/IWsjcP445hc Arsenios
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    That is the problem with any doctrine of pre-destination - It takes man out of his Salvation by God... What man does is the basis of God's Judgement... God has absolute foreknowledge, yet we can ask Him and we will receive, or not... We have to live in the Mystery that abides there... The...
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    Calvinism Vs Arminian

    Is there even the possibility that ANY of God's Grace is somehow merited? I think not... Yet it is God "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."1Ti 2:4 God clearly desires all to be saved... He does not cause any to be lost... Yet many are lost...
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    ORTHODOX STUFF

    The first is Bishop Kyrill the Patriarch of Moscow in this interview on the topic of The Hollowness of Modern Love... Given this Christmas... The designs on his vestments (hat and epaulets) are the six-winged Cherubim... https://youtu.be/JyWKYpbg7B4 Arsenios
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