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The Saudi's have been engaging in murderous actions for 1600 years now...
Is Trump supposed to cover his upraised nostrils with a perfumed finger and do a Prom Queen Exit Stage Left departing from the Saudi's holding the center stage??
Hillary wanted war with Russia with a weaponized State...
The first forum I "accidentally" found myself on had never heard of the Eastern Orthodox Faith, and it was populated by a lot of "Jack Chick" types, and the encounters there were vitriolic, vicious, and insensate - Everyone was just posturing up their own views, and attacking all who failed to...
Me too - Theology On Line and Catholic Answers - Been banned from them all, and seen the zoo of Christianity on line...
I think of myself somewhat as a refugee here...
Arsenios
It is what he has said and it is what I believe him to have meant and it is in part why I voted for him...
To call it blather when he has kept his word on all his campaign promises is ill-spirited...
We need overall comprehensive immigration reform...
The wall will force that legislation...
"As many as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ." (Paul)
"Go, disciple all the nations, Baptizing them..."(Christ)
Whom does Christ in Scripture command to Baptize ALL the Nations into Himself?
Did Christ succeed or fail in this command to His Apostles?
How did they do so?
Or do...
Indeed, Christ Himself "gave up His Spirit"...
Elijah will come again to die for three days...
We WANT to die to this fallen life...
Knowing that believers never die...
Death to this fallen life
simply takes us from the detour
of Adam's sin...
Arsenios
"As many as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ."
"Go, disciple all the nations, Baptizing them..."
Does the Bible humorize you too, Menno?
Arsenios
Indeed he can, but that power is derived...
The Legion of Demons in the demoniac(s) did not even have the authority to enter the herd of swine...
They had to wait for Christ to give them leave to enter it...
And they immediately destroyed that herd...
For Christ had but exorcized them from...
"But be of Good Cheer...
I have overcome the world..."
This is why a Christian must overcome the world in order to overcome Satan in his own soul...
Arsenios
I think the underlying basis for reconciliation will be found in the difference between the OT and NT approach to obedience to God...
The OT culminated in the Law, which is an externally observable obedience to God that is enforceable by others...
The NT turns from that merely external obedience...
I bet you are the one who,
when at the Service of Pascha
the Orthodox faithful proclaim
the Resurrection of Christ saying joyfully:
"Christ is Risen!"
And then reply
"Truly He is Risen!"
I say YOU are doubtless the one...
The very one indeed...
Who replies to the joy of:
"Christ is Risen!"...
My Church does not proof-text...
But YOU do...
Therefore I am but speaking to your professed manner of understanding...
And it turns out that you do not believe the Bible when it disagrees with you...
They are captivated by deception, Menno...
They need repentance unto acknowledging the truth...
THEN will they stop opposing themselves...
BECAUSE they have free will...
But wrongly guided by deception...
It happened the same in the Garden...
Eve was deceived...
Adam followed...
Both fell in...
You have it backwards - Church dogma supports my interpretation...
That is your ever-present accusation without proof...
My Church is world-wide and ongoing for 2000 years and does not brook new doctrines...
Actually, my Brother, they rejected Christ because of the Pharisitic leaven...