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  1. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    The CAUSE of our Salvation is God... Do you really think Christ HAD TO DIE for our Salvation? Do you really think that God was UNABLE to save us without sacrificing His Son? Christ embraced His Passion for our sakes... And WE are Baptized into HIS Death on the Cross... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    It is an aorist imperative passive verb - Kind of oxymoronic to English speakers - SOTHITE - For us, a passive imperative is not possible... One cannot be commanded to do what another must do to or for you... For the Greeks, it means "permit yourself" (to be saved)... The aorist means...
  3. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    We can't exist without God granting that gift... Yet it is we who repent, not God, Who never repents for our sins... But God gives fallen man the ability to repent... And the Call of God is unto MAN doing the repenting... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    Great reply... Heaven is gained by obedience to its King... It is not earned, you are right... But it IS gained through repentance... You repent... God Sanctifies... YOU cannot Sanctify... God does not repent... (as you wisely clarified) Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Annoying personality trait?

    So I just finished a book - A serious book about very serious and holy spiritual matters... And I found myself in chapter one reading into the second paragraph, and I had no idea what I had just read... So I went back and re-read it... All common words, all logically arranged and well...
  6. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    God has never repented... Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did fore-ordain, them He also Called: and whom He Called, them He also Justified: and whom He Justified, them he also Glorified. God calls us to repentance, yes? He is not calling the righteous... He is calling sinners to repentance...
  7. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    Yes... :) And God won't marry you unless you are in love with Him... He is ever proving His Love for us... We are ever seeking His proof... We need to love God more than to be loved by man... More than we love man... More than we love creation... "IF you love Me keep My Commandments..."...
  8. Arsenios

    We should forgive

    We should never judge them for their trespasses in the first place... We should thank them in our hearts for their trespasses... We should beg their forgiveness for our offenses... The whole idea of walking up to someone who has wronged you and saying: "You have wronged me and I forgive you"...
  9. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    The Christian Faith is a God-Quest by man... We are Saved by God, by God's Grace... God's Grace is God Himself as Creator of creation... The Marriage of the Lamb is God giving to man Union with Himself... As Paul writes of those Justified: "These also He Glorified." Because when man is One...
  10. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    The Faith of Christ is begun in initial repentance from dead works... It grows in maturity across a lifetime... It is perfected in the mature in the Faith... It is not given full blown and perfected... The perfecting of the Faith of Christ within one's own soul takes patience and...
  11. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    Well it would not be the first time for me to do such a thing... Agreed - It is about Faith as a universal, and dare I add, UNSEEN thing... Or is it all that unseen? For if it is a work, it can be seen... Yet it's hope is not visible That is what it is referring to here by Paul, but he...
  12. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    Indeed - without the building of the boat, the boat does not get built... Building the boat IS the faith happening... Without the building, the faith is dead... The building of it is evidence of a boat unseen (not yet visible)... Indeed, it is the basis of one's hope to see/have the unseen...
  13. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    It takes a great deal of faith to build a boat, or even a chicken coop... One has a need, then a vision, then a plan, then purchases lumber and fasteners and supplies, all for something not even visible... It is one's faith that is the substance, the basis, for what is not visible... And...
  14. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    I simply chose to agree with Christ's very words which you are ignoring - And especially the words EI TIS THELEI - IF ANY IS WILLING... You have re-written the Bible to say "If any OF YOU is willing..." For my part, I have generally tried not to re-write the Bible according to my...
  15. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    Matthew 16:24 ei tis thele opisw mou elthein The first three words say: IF ANY IS WILLING The second three say: AFTER ME TO FOLLOW Christ's very Own Words... He did not say, as you argued, "If any OF YOU are willing..." You assumed that because He was talking to them he was only talking...
  16. Arsenios

    Save yourselves?

    It sure was a start toward the Faith... Being cut to the heart shows belief... And then they obeyed out of that belief... It is their obedience that is according to the Faith... And not mere belief... They repented and were Baptized into Christ by Christ at the hands of His Servants...
  17. Arsenios

    Adam and Eve thrown out of garden for their protection?

    The EOC understands God as Love, and that thus each and every element of the "curse" of God upon Adam and Eve is actually a great blessing... And that yes, access to the Tree of Life was taken from them for their own good and unto their Salvation... I mean, look what happens to men deprived of...
  18. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    This is the very ubra-literal translation: For by the Grace you are existing having been saved through the Faith And this not out of you [plural]... Of God the Gift... So that the two definite articles, one before Grace and one before Faith, refer to something definite... THE Grace means...
  19. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    There was just something really good about this post... This coming from one who knows insanity... And who knows what is needed for sanity... And has walked the talk of progressing therefrom... From the harmful ones to those less so... We train our emotions, I guess, as best we can, but it is...
  20. Arsenios

    If Calvinism is not right, how come some people can't muster up faith?

    IF ANY(one) is WILLING... After Me to be coming... Let him FIRST deny himself [REPENT]... THEN take up his cross... AND Follow Me... Sorry, but those are Christ very words as quoted by Holy Scripture... 2. You just deleted the part of the verse where it says, "Jesus said to his disciples...."...
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