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No... Why would you want to think that?
Well, the prayers of the Righteous avail much, and of the Righteous, She is more righteous than anyone else, ever...
But as the Mother of Christ, She is also our Mother...
For we are Christ's Brethren...
And in Jewish Royalty, the Mother of the King...
Salvation...
What does Christ prescribe for our Salvation?
He prescribes our obedience that we recover from the disobedience of Adam... Matt 28:20
He prescribes purity of heart, which is why He sent John as His Forerunner so as to prepare His Way in the human soul, preaching the baptism of...
All Bishops are constrained by the Canons to keep within their own geographical territories...
Wandering Bishops caused a lot of troubles in ancient times...
The EP is directly under the Turkish yoke...
Russia is again an Orthodox Country...
No longer under the atheists...
We'll see what...
No Bishop has this kind of authority in the Orthodox Faith...
He made a deal with the devil...
The US State Department...
Clinton legacy...
Against Russia...
Arsenios
He is being excommunicated by Orthodox Churches...
He is treating his Office as if he is a 1400's Pope...
The CIA has enrolled him to support their regime change in the Ukraine...
And to attack Russia indirectly...
Deep state wants war with Russia...
And he is acting WAY beyond his place in the...
One of the problems with the doctrine of the I/C is that it denigrates Mariam, because she alone got the ultimate cheat chit in the form of a special grace from God at her conception that removed the stain of Original Sin from her soul, a grace no one else received... She is thereby deprived of...
Sounds like the Bong of the Gong Show...
In China it is called the Wong Bong...
Death by a thousand cuts if Wong...
Which is neither Here nor There...
Who were those few? I thought that doctrine was cut whole cloth just recently...
Arsenios
1Co 4:11
Even unto this present hour
we both hunger, and thirst,
and are naked,
and are buffeted,
and have no certain dwelling place...
Wherefore I beseech you,
Be ye followers of me.
He is beseeching them to enter the narrow Gate and the afflicted Way of Christ...
That Entry and that...
That is how the world is overcome...
Christ: "For I have overcome the world..."
As followers of Christ, we too are to overcome the world...
Don't believe everything those sissies prattle on about! :)
Arsenios
Let's ask Paul, because my opinion and $5 will get you no change back at Starbucks:
1Co 4:11
Even unto this present hour
we both hunger, and thirst,
and are naked,
and are buffeted,
and have no certain dwelling place...
Wherefore I beseech you,
Be ye followers of me.
The narrow way is...
Matthew 3:14
“Enter in through the narrow gate.
For wide the gate
and broad the road
that leads to destruction,
and many enter therein.
But narrow the gate
and afflicted the road
that leads to Life,
and few there be
who find it."
You are right to see the mega-churches as broad gates...
You are being very gracious...
Indeed...
Actually we do, because she is the New Eve, who was sinless prior to sinning...
She is the Gyne, Woman, of Revelation, a figure of the Church...
But we do not regard her as having been given some special grace at her conception...
She found her way...
Well, I sure wish you would also call her blessed, but I have to beg your forgiveness, Menno...
I have been dragging you backwards through these brambles for far too long...
I am sorry for getting so much pleasure from doing so...
It stops here and now...
Please forgive me...
Arsenios
OK - I confess... I do get a kick and a half out of dragging Menno backwards through the brambles of saying he believes the Bible and then not calling Her Blessed...
I should probably take it to Confession, except that I keep hoping he will DO the Bible there when it is so easy to do...
I...
You don't need to read about some straw-man "formal title"...
Scripture records:
"All generations shall call me blessed."
Do YOU call her blessed?
It is very simple for anyone to do, but ONLY IF they do NOT SCORN God's Word...
I used to see Christians as cheap judgmental hypocrites, Menno...