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  1. Arsenios

    What do you appreciate about other denominational beliefs/churches?

    One very mentionable fact that should not be passed by is the presence of God's Grace in ALL who call upon Him, in whatever manner they call on Him... God is not stingy with His Grace... And even small doses of this Grace... Can keep a person turned toward God... Maybe even especially the...
  2. Arsenios

    What do you appreciate about other denominational beliefs/churches?

    At 75, I am sitting more, but still doing 3 hours every Sunday 9-12... Much more for the Service of Pascha (called Easter for you estrogen lovers!:)) I love the 5 Pointers for the fierceness of their faith... The Lutherans for their quality of being salt of the earth in such a down-home...
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    Sinless Mary

    For him at that time it was... Because he had been perfected/matured in the Faith... Does this mean that they have willingly denied themselves...? That they have taken up their cross willingly...? That they have willingly followed Christ...? Or does it mean that Christ did all that for...
  4. Arsenios

    Power/Might of Satan

    He doesn't need to read your thoughts - He can hear your words when you speak, or when we type or write... But especially spoken words... And he can for sure see your response to events... And he doesn't eat, drink or sleep... And he has been doing this for some 5-6000 years or more...
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    Sinless Mary

    You have not exchanged your life for that of God IF you are not willing to struggle against your own sins... And not as some sissie shadow-boxer beating the air, either... (Paul's words) Overcoming the world is not for sissies but for the daring and the persistent and the uncompromising...
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    Sinless Mary

    Do I detect sarcastic dismay?? And perhaps an operatic fugue stage left? The beating of cheeks and grandiloquent suddenness of departure? Those were not particular sins, but categories of a few of them... I mean, here we are on a Christian forum and nobody wants to talk about the enemy of...
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    Sinless Mary

    I would hope not! Love of God needs to be your reason... Your only reason... Without any holding back... At all... 24/7/365/6 Arsenios
  8. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    "...but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." Does this mean anything for the person who does not endure to the end? Whose responsibility is it to endure to the end? Who actually does this enduring? How do you understand it, Menno? Found in all three Synoptics... Arsenios
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    Power/Might of Satan

    I second that bump! :bump: :) Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Power/Might of Satan

    Satan's power over us only comes through our consent to sin... And the more we consent, the more power he has over us... If one repents from consenting to sin, the power of Satan ebbs... But the more you continue in a sin, the more Satan has power over you... When a repeated sin becomes a...
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    Sinless Mary

    He will clean you all right... Then you need to keep clean the cleansing you have been given by Him... What happens is that you have your first foul thought... And the clean you had becomes the clean you used to have... But Menno, you have indeed put your finger directly on the pulse of the...
  12. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    The EOC is fairly preoccupied with sin... Sins of knowledge and of ignorance... Sins of commission and of omission... Sins in thoughts, and in words, and in deeds... It is hard to repent of something that is not recognized as needing repenting from... We focus on repentance instead of God's...
  13. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Maybe we should do a thread on sin... Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    God regards them differently... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    SNOT-SLINGERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!! Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Rape of a child and shoplifting a candy bar is all the same to you? Wherefore as through one man sin entered the cosmos... And death through that one sin... In like manner death entered into all men... Because of which all men have sinned... Satan wants you dead in him... Christ wants you to...
  17. Arsenios

    Tradition

    Roger that! All manner of privations ... Food, sleep, shelter, clothing, bedding, heating, baths, rest, idleness of all kinds... All beneficial in one's thirsting quest for God... Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    Tradition

    Does not the Latin doctrine of Purgatory teach that sin is paid for by temporal suffering after death? The Orthodox approach is to take away the reward of the sin as it is being offered, you see... Physically at first, until the mind can catch up and begin to see more clearly in its...
  19. Arsenios

    Tradition

    They justify subduing one's body whatever that may take... One will not find God's Salvation in obedience to the flesh... But only in one's flesh being in obedience to one's soul... Elder Joseph was a special and unusual case, yet illustrates the spirit needed to overcome demonic...
  20. Arsenios

    Tradition

    First God came to him (3) and dropped him onto the dirt (4) and accused him (4). And Saul asked Who He was (5) and He replied to him (6) and convicted him (6) And Saul repented and sought and sought His Command that he should obey it... (7) And the Lord gave him His Command and Saul obeyed...
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