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  1. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Please forgive me for butting in but... :) I have wondered often if we might be more accurrate to say that God does indeed know who is who, and that it is we ourselves who do not know, and that we are given this fallen life so that we may not complain when the final judgement is given by...
  2. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Well, they were blended, entangled, and twisted together in Jesus Christ... You are treating them as if they are separated by some great "Wall of Partition"... Do you have some Scripture that divides our Salvation in Christ into such an unbridgable division? I have shown you the Scripture...
  3. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Well, they were blended, entangled, and twisted together in Jesus Christ... You are treating them as if they are separated by some great "Wall of Partition"... Do you have some Scripture that divides our Salvation in Christ into such an unbridgable division?? Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Josiah Who Sanctifies? You seem to be saying that someone other than God Sanctifies... What is the basis of your understanding? Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Abba Poemen said of Abba John the Dwarf that he had prayed God to take his passions away from him so that he might become free from care. He went and told an old man this; I find myself in peace, without an enemy,' he said. The old man said to him, 'Go beseech God to stir up warfare so...
  6. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    We should try to live in such a way that if the Gospels were lost, they could be rewritten by looking at us. Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
  7. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    He is spiritually courageous who manages to take refuge in repentance when caught in the snares of the enemy and fallen into the nets of sin. St. Gregory Palamas
  8. Arsenios

    Salvation

    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, Metropolitan JOSEPH
  9. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    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, Metropolitan JOSEPH
  10. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    All the time, no matter what you do, whether you are sitting, walking, or working, say with your heart, “Lord have mercy! St. Nikon of Optina
  11. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    It is a wonderful thing that, no matter how much we trouble about our health, however much care we take of ourselves, whatever wholesome and pleasant food we eat, whatever wholesome drinks we drink, however much we walk in the fresh air, still, notwithstanding all this, in the end we are...
  12. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    It is a good thing to believe in Christ, because without faith in Christ it is impossible for anyone to be saved; but one must also be instructed in the word of truth and understand it. It is a good thing to be instructed in the word of truth, and to understand it is essential; but one must...
  13. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Indeed... And at that Dread and Last of Times... We too will face our eternity... Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Salvation

    I ran the cursor and did not see your point being made... So I asked... And got rebuked... I deserve worse! But not for asking... :) Arsenios Arguing from Scripture is not mere citation of Scripture...
  15. Arsenios

    Salvation

    God Justifies... God Sanctifies... God Judges... So does God Justify, Sanctify, and Judge based on God's actions? Or does He do so on the basis of what are man's actions? Does God Justify man on the basis of God's actions? Or... Does God Justify man on the basis of man's actions? Did God...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation

    This is the full and final Salvation, of which in this life we receive but an earnest... So that in one sense, Justification, being an intermediary Gift from God between the Call of God and the Glorificaiton of God is then seen as perhaps, may we say, provisional Salvation? eg It has to be...
  17. Arsenios

    Salvation

    The answer you gave is BOTH... Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Let me reply in kind: Read Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Revelation... And the Psalms, especially the first 10... Read the words... See my problem? Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Our final Salvation will be at the Dread Last Judgement... God will judge the living and the dead... Will God judge us based on our actions? Or... Will God judge us based on God's actions? Try this, in your understanding of your so-called "narrow justification": Is it a judgement? Is...
  20. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Will we be judged by God according to what we do? OR... Will we be judged by God according to what God does? And you keep getting the same answer, Jesus, over and over, and it doesn't matter, you keep asking the same question ad nauseum... And then you accuse those who disagree with...
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