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  1. Arsenios

    What do you make of it?

    God-Speed, my friend and my brother... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    What do you make of it?

    Which is why we disciple God rather than the Written... For us, the Written is Holy... And God is it's Source... The Beattitudes are to be lived... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    What do you make of it?

    I mis-spoke, confusing them with the ante-Nicene Fathers... But I remembere reading Ruth, I think it was, How she became, from being an outsider, an ancestor of Christ... I remember it giving me chills... For I know what being an outsider is... Memory is getting more fickle these days...
  4. Arsenios

    What do you make of it?

    The Orthodox love the Deuterocanonicals... They are faithful witnesses to the life of the Body of Christ in the early years of the Faith... We include them without elevation to Holy Writ... It is the Way of Christ that the Apostolic Churches disciple, and in this Way of Life, we abide and...
  5. Arsenios

    What do you make of it?

    I have wondered at this passage as well, so I went to Chrysostom's commentary, and was astonished at what I found... http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/220140.htm John takes quite a bit of time approaching the passage, and I may have gotten it wrong, but as I am reading his commentary I think he...
  6. Arsenios

    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    Kagw de soi legw But I am also saying to you oti su ei Petrov that you are Petros kai epi tauth th petra and upon this very petra oikodomhsw mou thn ekklhsian I will build My Church kai pulai adou ou katisxusousin authv And the gates of Hades shall not overcome Her... The passage gives...
  7. Arsenios

    Catholic vs Orthodox

    We agree that it is funny and has respectful accuracy... I especially liked the line on the Orthodox rejection of the hellish punishments of Purgatory... How silly such a notion is! The Orthodox instead believe in the Toll Houses... Where the punishments are worse! Neither exactly a...
  8. Arsenios

    Catholic vs Orthodox

    The treasury of Orthodoxy is obedience to Christ... The treasury of the Latin Church is the authority of the Chair of Peter... The treasury of the Reformation is the authority of the Bible... So that the argument between the Latin Church and the Reformation is bitter and vitriolic... It is an...
  9. Arsenios

    Catholic vs Orthodox

    What DH said! Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    What does it mean?

    Actually, that is the treasury of man... God IS Love... The treasury of hell is NOT Salvation, by any means... Demons do not have Salvation to give... Nor would they give it if they did... Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    What does it mean?

    The Treasury of God is Love... The treasury of demons is accusation... Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Pray to be worthy.

    Well, there is the difference then: praying to be "made worthy" vs praying to be "deemed according to worthiness"... For us, the greatest saint in this life is unworthy, but by imitating worthiness, he ever seeks to be accounted worthy nonetheless... In that respect, ol' Menno is right - We do...
  13. Arsenios

    Catholic vs Orthodox

    I did find this Russian clip... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=70&v=mduJtl8k3dQ Mind you! :) Arsenios url corrected
  14. Arsenios

    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    Indeed... What do you take from Elijah's passing of his Mantle to Elisha? Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    Well, as a human organization, any can go off the rails... Orthodoxy CAN turn into a dog and pony show of fancy vestments, crowns, and ceremonies masquerading as holiness... And there certainly are times when it has done so... Yet the labors themselves are so great that most, if not moving in...
  16. Arsenios

    Pray to be worthy.

    To affirm the Apostolic Historical lineage of one's Church is not a brag, but historically ascertainable... Or not... The 5 Great Sees of the Christian Churches of the Mediterranean are historical fact... So that no one in one of these is thereby somehow superior... Now to HEAR this...
  17. Arsenios

    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    While this is a good human and institutional way to understand Apostolic Succession, it is far, far deeper, for it is the Holy Spirit Himself working and flowing and directing in Power the very Body of Christ as it has been established upon the earth of His Creation... Anyone can pick up a...
  18. Arsenios

    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    Without question... Salvation is, in its final form on this earth, the Glorification of man by God... God is Glorified in His Holy Ones (Saints)... The shadow of Peter healed the sick... We are Called by God to Repentance from sin in denial of self... We are then Justified by God in Baptism...
  19. Arsenios

    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    Thank you for your prayers for me... Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    Pray to be worthy.

    The way we, the Orthodox, approach this matter is to ask that we be accounted worthy, knowing our sinfulness... I mean, we are such pathetically fallen people in this life... So we do not pray to BE worthy, but to be accounted worthy, even in our sinfulness... And this accounting is not based...
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