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  1. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Good... I do not - These are not words from the Orthodox Faith... She suffered temptations as all of us do... I have no idea - She did suffer temptations as the rest of mankind suffers them... That would be silly, but what I do say is akin... I do not - She suffered temptations as we...
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    Sinless Mary

    The only question is this: "Do YOU call Her Blessed or not?" I do not care a whit about any of your alleged titles we should or should not give her. Scripture states: "All generations shall call me blessed..." So DO YOU call her Blessed? IF you do not, then you scorn the Gospel from which...
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    Narrow vs. Wide Gate

    John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. In the world you will have tribulation... Afflicted means in tribulations... Rom 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in...
  4. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    It did so for the first 1500 years of its existence... Do you know when it changed? The actual "official" catechism of the Orthodox Faith is contained in its Orthros Services which take a year to hear if you attend every Orhros Service every day... So that if you are doing the Service of...
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    Sinless Mary

    All righty then: Generic Hokum it IS!! Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    Then you may appreciate that we have a familiar term by which we address her as we go about our daily tasks: Theotoki... As you know, this means God-birther... The ancient-Faith Orthodox Churches DENY she was conceived without original sin or its 'stain'... And we affirm this denial as...
  7. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    The purity and virginity of the Theotokos is not mere religious folklore-legend... It is today's Received Holy Tradition of the Apostolic Church... Every Apostolic Church without exception holds it... Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    Just Rom 5:12 - The text literally states 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through [that one] sin, in this way also death came to all people, upon which [death] all have sinned— eph'w Eph-hoe = upon which - eg "for which cause"... So that the Death...
  9. Arsenios

    Narrow vs. Wide Gate

    I would like to literalize those vss a little: 3 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad open is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is narrow the gate and narrow afflicted the road that leads to life, and only a few there be who...
  10. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Do you call her, in your inner thinking, as "BLESSED," Josiah? Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    Well so much for MY theory of YOUR question... Forgive me! I would imagine that describing her as "Immaculate" would only be understood by you as not having had any sexual relations... On the matter of sinlessness, Scripture does not record her committing any sin, but that is not...
  12. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    "All generations shall call me blessed..." Sorry Menno, but Scripture only mentions Mariam, and not you... All creation is blessed just to be created... But all Christians will call the Mother of our Lord Blessed... Unless they scorn Scripture's Holy Word... Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

    Beliefs that Progressive Christians and Atheists Share

    Menno, you will find very few who do what you would hope they might do... I observe the same thing, and decry its import... Especially in business practices, but in daily routines as well... I have observed that Protestant Christians, not having the Church's guidance, end up being...
  14. Arsenios

    Anglican origins, claims, theology.

    I have not been closely tracking this thread, but I thought you were just emphasizing what MC had posted by bolding and coloring is red... I do that a lot so that you can see what part of the text I am referring to... When I extol or decry, I say! Arsenios
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    Anglican origins, claims, theology.

    Thanks, MC - I did not know how to do that either... I will try not to go on too much of a tear with it... Mind you... Arsenios
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    It is well documented and admitted... CIA has no business in Ekklesiastical matters... Arsenios
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Here is some more: Ukrainian Security Service (Former KGB) has kidnapped (taken by force) His Eminence Orthodox Metropolitan Agapit (Bevtsik) Of Mogilev-Podolsky and Shargorod, "to talk to the president" of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Tomorrow in Kiev, two groups of Ukrainian nationalist...
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Those political machinations are the CIA co-opting the E/P to destabilize the EOC in the Ukraine for its political purposes... Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    Forgive me - I thought it was your basis for the doctrine of the I/C... OK... OK... Is this the stain? So the Latin Church sees the stain of Original Sin as death and our desire to sin? And Paul writes that it is because of this death-rule that all have sinned... A weakened...
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    Christ Gave Himself Up Only For the Church

    Well, He IS, after all, our Creator... Arsenios
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