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  1. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Are you ever going to address Romans 8:29-30 ? The silence is deafening... I can't hear your other words... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Who paid God the wages He "earned" on the Cross?? Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Salvation

    You seem to think that God had to EARN your Salvation?? From WHOM did God EARN your Salvation... WHO paid God's WAGES that save YOU?? It is a silly notion... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Salvation

    I agree - A dressed up pig is still a pig... Works do not earn Salvation... I am thankful that God is faithful... Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Blessed are you when they have slandered you.

    It only applies to Christian persecutions... Although... Persecutions for ANY truth carry great blessing - As did fasting for Ghandi... But the text is clear: [and yes, a different translation, and I bolded some:] Mat 5:11-12 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you...
  6. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Always good counsel... Learn from those who KNOW... And not from those who THINK they know... The ASCENT from thoughts to knowledge... Is the DESCENT of the nous into the heart... Mother Theresa encountered an ex-Roman Catholic left-hand path adept in Calcutta - He liked her, and offered to...
  7. Arsenios

    Salvation

    You are right - The cost of being born was born by our mothers... We did nothing... Christ's Passion on the Cross did not EARN our Salvation... It ESTABLISHED it according to the Will of God... In it He picked up, by His Death, dead Adam... He took up where Adam had fallen into death...
  8. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Rev 19:7 The marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made Herself ready. Rev 19:9 Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Those called unto the Marriage Supper in THIS life are those whom The Marriage Supper will come after the Last Judgement... The...
  9. Arsenios

    Salvation

    The Saints of God are given an EARNEST of that Marriage and its Feast in THIS life... NOW in part in an earnest... THEN in fullness and reality... We look to the Life of the Age to Come... BECAUSE we have TASTED of it in this fallen life... Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Salvation

    So I have been bothered by this FREE GIFT of Salvation that is so central to your thesis... On the one hand, it IS a Gift of God... AND... It cannot be earned by man... AND Indeed it cannot be contributed to in any way by man BECAUSE The Gift is God Himself... AND Man cannot give himself God...
  11. Arsenios

    Salvation

    The Marriage of the Lamb IS Salvation... The Cross is preparation for that Marriage... Union with God IS Salvation... John 17:3 And this is Life Eternal, that they should KNOW Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom thou hast sent. The knowing used here is the same knowing that...
  12. Arsenios

    Little gods

    I am the reverse! Friends all say: You little dog you... Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

    Little gods

    Both verses, in John and in the Psalms, say: "Ye are gods..." The Psalmic verse is historic [past tense]... Do you know when it occurred? Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Romans 11:6

    Heb 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: How do you understand the above if not the decision of the OT Saint not accepting deliverance from torture bu embracing death, in...
  15. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Our Metropolitan writes: Complacency begins when we no longer see the gift of each new day, when we lose our gratitude for what we have been given. God gives us all things simply because He loves us, yet He lets us work for these things so we will appreciate them more. His Eminence...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Salvation by God through the Works of the Faith Christ discipled to His Apostles... Which presents apparent apoplectic cognitive dissonance in these here parts methinks! :) The Judiazers wanted your foreskin... We don't... You will probably have to trust me on this one! :) Arsenios
  17. Arsenios

    Salvation

    fwiw, Josiah, the East understands the course of Salvation by God to begin with the Call of God... Then to proceed through Baptism into Christ to the Gift of Justification and Sanctification by God... Which proceeds to Glorification by God... All this upon this earth in this life... The Call...
  18. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Thank-you... Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Yes... So Justification = Salvation = Christ given And Sanctification is OUR DOING, with a little help from Jesus... Got it, Thank-you... We simply disagree... Orthodoxy holds that God alone Sanctifies, just as God alone Justifies... I think that just about clears it up... Thank-you...
  20. Arsenios

    Is it impeachment time yet?

    Trump has been harder on Putin than Obama ever thought of being... There is NO EVIDENCE yet of Russian collusion with the Trumpo campaign... There is full evidence of the Hillary campaign colluding with Russia via the British ex-spy MI6 agent... And there is ample evidence of Democrat...
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