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  1. Arsenios

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    You are still lost in the fantasy-land of blah-blah-blatherdom... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

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    I do not... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

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    Well, it would not be the first time... I went to the term piazo, which means 'to press', 'to lay hold of', and 'to apprehend' - Hence the gloss: sub-due = hypo-piazo You are right about the 'black-eye' meaning of beating something black and blue, and especially in the context of "not as a...
  4. Arsenios

    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Well, the forces in the Orthodox Church are slowly gathering in rejection of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's CIA venture in the Ukraine. The Arch-Bishop of Cypress will not commemorate the head of the newly formed schismatic Ukranian Church... The Moscow Patriarchate has already denounced it...
  5. Arsenios

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    Flagellation is not an eastern practice... The word in Paul is "keep under", meaning "subdue"... In the west, it came to mean punish the flesh, which is gnostic... In the east, the flesh is not punished as some kind of evildoer... Nor is it permitted to rule the soul, whatever that might...
  6. Arsenios

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    OK - I stand terminologically corrected! :) Please forgive my transgression... Oh, I suppose not, unless, of course, God CALLS him to repentance... I know one guy who was either killing Christians and having them killed who got the Call and repented... Ended up writing half the New...
  7. Arsenios

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    Flagellation is a western aberration and not a feature of the EOC... Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    This is way past the Law - Christ Himself did not keep each and every commandment of the Law - But He fulfilled them all... And did not sin... The conception of Mary was itself a miracle of God's Grace bestowed on Joachim and Anna in their dotage... As destined to become the Virgin Mother of...
  9. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    "The taint of sin of Adam's fall" is a euphemism for what we inherit from Adam... From Adam we inherit DEATH... THAT is why our eternal life will not be found in these bodies... Our flesh will die but our souls live on... That doesn't follow... We do not inherit sin from Adam... We...
  10. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Adam sinned, so we all die in him... Christ did no sin, so we all live...
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    Sinless Mary

    It is false... Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    They are born in Adam, as are all of us including Christ of the Virgin Mary... Adam sinned and conferred his death upon ALL his progeny... YOU and I do not have to sin to die... We have inherited death from Adam... And when Baptized into Christ... We inherit Life Eternal... By dying to...
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    Sinless Mary

    Her unique conception as understood by the Latin Church is not a tenet of the Eastern Orthodox Faith... Dung-slingers of the world unite!!! Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    The issue is not sinlessness, but being born under the rulership of Death... Being given Christ's Life is only possible in purity of heart... Hence Christ's first action of being Himself Baptized BY John in the Jordan, the border of the Promised Land the Jews spent 40 years in the Wilderness...
  15. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Well so much for my theory. I thought that those strings of sentences were rather rigorously articulated in a logic of sequencing so as to form an irrefutable conceptual chain of reasoning that would prove to be so compelling that any reasonable person considering them one sentence at a time...
  16. Arsenios

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    Forgive me if I cited you falsely... Did you not say that only SAVED man is capable of repentance? That the not-yet-saved man is incapable of repentance? That fallen man repenting unto Salvation by God is anathema... Because to YOU, that would mean evil man is saving himself by his evil...
  17. Arsenios

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    That's a start... May I offer to you the fact that sin is an act of rebellion against God? So that perhaps you might want to remove the word former from "former rebels" because we are still rebelling with every sin? So in terms of sin, the saved are still sinners and shall ever be until...
  18. Arsenios

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    Have you considered a career in scare-crow manufacturing? I mean, you are a straw-man artistadoro... If God calls YOU to REPENTANCE... The YOU CAN REPENT... The rest is fluff... Any crow would too, including me... Man oh man am I glad I didn't put forth anything like that at all! Phew...
  19. Arsenios

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    Nice Avatar, Menno... Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

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    Does God Call the Saved to Repentance? Or does He call sinners to repentance? Arsenios
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