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  1. Arsenios

    Salvation

    So Josiah, are you ever going to address the matter of God Justifying those He has Called and then Glorifying them? I have asked that question of you about 5-6 times now, and you never reply... If you just do not want to deal with it, I will stop asking... I have never seen you engage that...
  2. Arsenios

    Salvation

    So then must we conclude that Scripture is wrong? When it states that Christ is the One doing the Baptizing? You say it is God the Spirit Who does the Baptizing into Christ... Scripture says it is God the Son Who does so... Do you have some reason I should believe you and not Scripture...
  3. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Who did Christ command to do His Baptizing? Did Ananias baptize Paul INTO Christ? Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Duck quick! Those OTHER THREE fingers are pointed straight back at the accusor! This smacks of pre-digestion... A perfect reply to a point nobody made Another perfect reply to a nonexistent point... Another perfect reply to a nonexistent point... There are limits to cut and paste...
  5. Arsenios

    Cremation or burial?

    The same can be said for Churches - Why waste the real-estate on non-secular enterprises... Mount Athos has tons of dead monks there - They bury them for three years, dig them out, and place the worm-cleaned bones in the ossuary building with a monk in charge of it who describes them as his...
  6. Arsenios

    Salvation

    It seems so... On the premise that a humanly righteous work is not necessarily a work of God... Which is why the Faith is kata holon, according to the whole, and is not a systemically derived belief system... Thomas' Suma to the contrary notwithstanding - They were study notes, after all...
  7. Arsenios

    Cremation or burial?

    The Orthodox do not even embalm - Nail a pine box together with a lid and a cross on it, refrigerate the body after the cleansing, do the service and put it in the ground in 3 days from repose. Quick and cheap... Arsenios
  8. Arsenios

    Cremation or burial?

    Your body in Christ is the Temple of the Holy Spirit God... The Orthodox do not burn the Temple of the Holy Spirit... We reverently lay it to rest in the earth from which it came... "He hath remembered that we are dust..." And we remember those whose bodies are so returned to the earth...
  9. Arsenios

    Salvation

    For by (this) Grace you have been Saved through (this) Faith... Grace is God... Grace is not something God creates... Grace is God Himself... I believe that both Catholics and Protestants understand Saving Grace as something God makes and gives to man... Yet Eternal Life is the intimate...
  10. Arsenios

    Is there such a thing as partly saved?

    Heb 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were previously Enlightened, and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the Powers of the Age to Come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto...
  11. Arsenios

    Salvation

    It is God Who Calls... It is God Who makes Righteous... It is God Who Glorifies... The only question is, "On what basis does God do these 3 things?" Now we all agree that God is NOT in question here... But you and I and MC sure are... And what a man does matters... ALL are NOT Called, but...
  12. Arsenios

    What is Baptism?

    Romans 6:3 Know ye not? That as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ... Were baptized into His Death? Paul elsewhere writes: "I am dying every day..." Our Life of the Age to Come... While we are in this life... Is predicated on our death to this life... So we are baptized into...
  13. Arsenios

    What is Baptism?

    "As many as have been Baptized INTO Christ..." Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    What is Baptism?

    "As many as have been Baptized INTO Christ..." It is indeed our rebirth from above... The washing away of our sins is but preparation for this union with Christ... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Salvation

    The Judgement will come, and God will Judge the Living and the dead... For as many of you as have been Baptized into Christ, have put on Christ... If you do not eat My Flesh and drink My Blood you have NO LIFE in you... So that having been Baptized INTO Christ... And PARTAKING of the Divine...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Good point! :) A.
  17. Arsenios

    Salvation

    There is something that needs to be said on this topic with which no one seems willing to engage... And that something is life and death... It began in the Garden: Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof...
  18. Arsenios

    delivered over to death

    Rom 8:13 For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Col_3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; Further, Paul preaches Christ Crucified in his own flesh for all Christians: 1Co...
  19. Arsenios

    delivered over to death

    WAY more! Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Thank-you - I had asked if Justification is an event of a particular Spiritual quality, and if I understand you aright, you are saying that it is like physical birth, an event of which we have no memory, monergistic... You did not mention its possible relationship with conception... Is that...
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