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  1. Arsenios

    JW baptism Vs Catholic baptism (help)

    Pray for your Mother, the Grandmother of the child... And pray for your sister, her mother... I suspect that the prayers of your mother, a devout Catholic, after her repose, will avail that child much... And will avail for you and your sister as well... Your sister is not a practicing...
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    What does it mean?

    Well, it does give "narrow mindedness" a moderately new dimension, I should say! :) Yes, if one has a theological sophistication that requires plain meanings to be strained through sieves in order for the sophistry to be true, the sophistry then is itself called into serious question... I...
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    Pray to be worthy.

    Must have been a senior moment - AXIOS is definitely in the word I quoted in Greek, and I had a different word translating it... Thank-you... "Be accorded worthy" indeed! Arsenios
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    So let's see you go into Rihad, Saudi Arabia, and preach the Gospel of Christ... You will become a relic rather quickly... I am, at my age, pretty much of a relic already... Old and smelly, I say!! :) We do not shrink from worldly death... We are baptized INTO worldly death... And only...
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    The Body of a Martyred Saint is in certain ways a Trophy of the Faith of Christ, because it proclaims openly and to all that the most heinous death contrivable by the haters of God had no power over the Holy Ones of God... Against Whom "the Gates of Hades shall not prevail..." The Power of God...
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    2000 years, Menno... We still have the Head of St. John the Baptist... We do not eat from platters on his Feast Day each year... We are the Ancient Faith... Think "Middle-Earth" for an approximation... Arsenios
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    You are right - God is not excluded all that easily... Would you hear Shakespeare? "There is much more between heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy..."?? The shadow of Peter healed the sick... How much more his body... How much more his prayers... You might as well try to...
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    God's Grace is much more focused and pervasive than you know... The Church's focus on relics is profoundly empirical... Salvation is body and soul... The body of a Saint is Holy... And God's Grace abounds... God is wondrous in His Saints... "Whom He hath Justified, these also He...
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    It has been embraced, and not comdemned, by Christianity, for 2000 years now and counting... Arsenios
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    Pray to be worthy.

    Luke 21:36 ἀγρυπνεῖτε οὐν ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ δεόμενοι Be ye standing vigil therefore in every time praying ἵνα καταξιωθῆτε ἐκφυγεῖν ταῦτα πάντα τὰ μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι in order that ye should be strengthened to flee these all about to come to pass καὶ σταθῆναι ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ...
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    Refuting Catholic Church bogus claim of succession...

    Relics are a pan-Christian feature of the Historic Church of Christ, where one's witness was martyrdom, and the bodies of the martyrs that result are holy... Having a physical connection with the Faith of Christ is something the faithful do... The stone that the Myrrh bearing women found...
  12. Arsenios

    What does it mean?

    I do not look any longer for those whose treasury is the authority of the Bible to have anything resembling a comprehensive understanding of Scripture... Some Scriptures simply have to be ignored, or at the very least made not to mean what they plainly say, and this denial on the basis that...
  13. Arsenios

    Good faith

    So one day I was minding my own business... Like I always do... As everyone already knows... Hohoho... And I had just finished with episode 2 of Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hannibal Lector... And for some strange reason, I found myself liking ol' Lector... So I asked God: "Lord, what would a...
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    The problem with "Christian" music today

    This is Christian music today... https://youtu.be/p3iYnHx8P0s Arsenios
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    Good faith

    Amen... Arsenios
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    Catholic vs Orthodox

    The video is humorously accurrate from the Orthodox pov... I would like to see MC's take on it... I would expect him to not see it as I do... I mean, the video-maker is, after all, Orthodox... Seeing a fun video like this from the Latin Church's pov might illumine much... The guy who did this...
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    Catholic vs Orthodox

    Good video - Enhypostatic Union with the Geat White Beard... This is indeed the Quintessential Essence of the Orthodox Faith!! The Goal of all Orthodox Prayers... But... Everyone knew that already! :):):) Arsenios
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    Catholic vs Orthodox

    The good news for you and the US of A is that the Campus Crusade for Christ was received into the Antiochian Orthodox Church some 30+ years ago and the convert Churches celebrate the Services in English, and a lot of Americans are entering monastic life... You do not have to become a Russian or...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Rome separated from the Communion of the Eastern Churches in the 11th Century, and we have not been in Communion for the last thousand years... She thinks we rebelled against the Pope's Supremacy over the Church on earth, and we think She became Apostate and Heretical from the Body of Christ...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Then if you are the Christian you claim, you are praying for me fervently... Your prayers are my treasury... Arsenios
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