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  1. Arsenios

    Sinless Mary

    She gave Christ Death, into which She was born... She was not born into sin, but Death, for which cause all have sinned, as Paul writes... Christ overcame Her death, which is our death, by His Death... Arsenios
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    Sinless Mary

    We renounce that false doctrine... Re-read the post... Arsenios
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    Christ Gave Himself Up Only For the Church

    Logical enough... But even though may ticket is paid, I still have to enter the train, plane of ferry... I see the times as a kind of sorting out process, where our lives determine our future life... Our actions here have eternal consequences... Arsenios
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    Journey from athiesm/agnosticism to faith?

    I was an Ayn Rand atheist from 19 to 36 years of age, denying the existence of God and scorning those who affirmed Him... I was so far from God that only God could reach me... And when I got to the end of my own efforts at self-healing and failed... Then the heart of one that was broken and...
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    Sinless Mary

    She was normally conceived... The problem with the I/C is that so are we all normally conceived, as is all mankind except Christ... Christ assumed in His Own Body ALL our fallen condition, except He did no sin... What Christ assumed, He healed, in His Own Body... IF Mary was given special...
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    Christ Gave Himself Up Only For the Church

    By saving mankind Christ IS saving His Creation... Beginning with Himself becoming the Son of Man... Through the Birth-Giving of the Blessed Virgin... The Nativity of our Lord, God and Savior... May you all have a Blessed Season of that Nativity... Where God became man... That man be united in...
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    Sinless Mary

    Ambrose wrote (as cited): Mary, a Virgin not only undefiled but a virgin whom grace has made inviolate, free of every stain." So that undefiled and virgin are two, not one and the same... And this because: "The marriage bed is undefiled..." And the stain of intercourse is but one...
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    I used to be a Libertarian Ayn Rand atheist... For me in those years, the only supreme being on earth was the human being... I did not have time for people who had sold out their minds to have faith in a non-demonstrable god of some kind or another... And you had better, in my thinking, not...
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    The end ...

    Which is why encounter is so important, where it is not a matter of words and positions and isms, but committing to them the Power of the Love of God in the person of the Christian encountering them... Walking in power... Where it matters not a whit what they do or say in terms of the Power of...
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    The end ...

    My Dad used to always complain that he did not understand all he knew about matters... God's Truth impacts culture, and is not contained by it... Post-modern "thought" is pretty much oxymoronic... It needs experts, and an expert is simply someone whose vision is so constricted that he can...
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    let us cleanse ourselves

    Purification of the heart is a lifelong endeavor in the face of our condition in this life... Man does the repenting, and God does the cleansing... It is a joint effort, and we are to persevere in it to our last breath... Sanctification means consecration to God - The separation of self unto...
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    And now it begins: UKRAINIAN PRIESTS AND LAITY SUPPORTING PRIESTS ARE BEING ACCUSED OF TREASON AND ADDED TO GOV’T DATABASE OF ENEMIES OF UKRAINE You may think it cannot happen here... Human evil can happen anywhere... http://orthochristian.com/117834.html Arsenios
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    Pray to be worthy.

    Sorry - I was having a case of tunnel vision! More Coffee shows the two renderings... One, the Majority Text family of mss uses: "should be accounted worthy..." to escape... The other, the Alexandrian family, uses: "are strengthened"... to escape... So it is "are" vs "should be"... And...
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Here is a response of one Bishop to the Patriarch Bartholomew, “DEAR LOYAL SUBJECT OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC, MR. BARTHOLOMEW!” An Answer to the Invitation to Constantinople’s Ukrainian Robber Council In the letter below, His Eminence Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol responds to the...
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    Pray to be worthy.

    ἀγρυπνεῖτε1 δὲ [...] ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ δεόμενοι ἵνα κατισχύσητε [...] ἐκφυγεῖν ταῦτα πάντα τὰ μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι, καὶ σταθῆναι ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. αγρυπνειτε δε ουν εν παντι καιρω δεομενοι ινα κατισχυσητε καταξιωθητε εκφυγειν ταυτα παντα τα μελλοντα γινεσθαι και σταθηναι εμπροσθεν του...
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    Pray to be worthy.

    OK - That is kata-axios- καταξιωθῆτε - According to worth.. The problem is that I am not finding it here in Luke 21:36 Here it is κατισχύσητε - kata-ischeos - According to strength... Perhaps a textual variant? And if a variant, we like to look for a word that will include both... eg both...
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    HOSPITAL OR COURT OF LAW?

    So in the New Covenant of the Body and Blood of our Lord, which predominates? The Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Sower, etc, all the Gospel Parables - Which do they favor? Arsenios
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    The end ...

    For myself, my Brother, it is not a possible event... I have been to that wall and embraced its death, and God came... If ever I forget Thee O Jerusalem... Psalm 137 [1] By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, and there we wept when we remembered Zion. [2] On the willows there we hung...
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    Pray to be worthy.

    LUKE 21:36 ἀγρυπνεῖτε δὲ ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ δεόμενοι Keep on being vigilant in every time praying ἵνα κατισχύσητε ἐκφυγεῖν ταῦτα πάντα τὰ μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι, in order that you should be prevailing over all things about to be coming to pass καὶ σταθῆναι ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. and to be...
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    CRISIS IN ORTHODOXY - UKRANIAN AUTOCEPHALOY

    Pretty much... I flat out do not trust our hidden diplomacy... The incident with the ships was manufactured through the US... So was the Gulf of Tonkin incident that entered us into the Vietnam War... Arsenios Arsenios
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