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  1. Arsenios

    THE HIDDENESS OF CHRIST

    The doctrine of Christ's Hiddeness accounts for His camoflage in Joseph's family as but another family member conceived by Joseph and Mary, when the truth was utterly different, where the marriage was not a marriage, and conception was not human conception, for Christ was born of the Blessed...
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    CAN WE FALL AWAY ? PART TWO

    Mat 26:26-28 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; This is My Body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is My Blood of the New Covenant...
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    THE HIDDENESS OF CHRIST

    Deut 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. Psalm 51:6 Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Psalm 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against...
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    Who was Melchizedek?

    The listing of them in order of importance is quintessential hierarchy... The least important for Paul was the Gift of Tongues being conferred at Baptism... Virtually all those Baptized into Christ received it... Fallacy of the False Alternative... Were they not assigned to those...
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    As the salvation of our souls is not gained solely by fasting, let us fill what is wanting in our fasting with almsgiving to the poor. Let us give to virtue what we take from pleasure. Let the abstinence of the man who fasts be the dinner of the poor man. St. Leo of Rome
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    And when we have cleansed ourselves with repentance, we shall see that the misfortunes sent to us were actually signs of the Lord’s mercy and love for us. And we shall understand that we need these more than all the good things of the world. Abbot Nikon Vorobiev
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    When Grace approaches a person, it does not change his nature, but it fills and overfills -- as much as each person's vessel can hold -- the same natural properties and good attributes with which his nature is endowed. Also it can reduce and remove natural weaknesses. Elder Joseph the...
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Remain constantly before His face, think of Him, remember Him in your heart. Otherwise, if youonly meet Him from time to time, you risk losing your close friendship with Him. Familiarity with God is built on meditation and self-abandonment to Him during prayer. St. Isaac the Syrian
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    After the resurrection our bodies will be spiritual, and not earthly ones, everything earthly will remain upon earth. Remembering what our future abode will be, Christians, let us, then, gradually detach ourselves from everything earthly. St. John of Kronstadt
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    “How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great possessions and pleasures, in diversions and vain things, which have a bitter end! It is the same thing to construct the tower of happiness outside of...
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    Who was Melchizedek?

    You are describing the condition of most Christians, yet each generation does indeed have some who attain to God... The rest of us poor slobs, who have not found the Narrow and Straited Way, do not know God as the few do, and take the word of the few over self opinion... Each according to...
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    Universal Basic Income

    Mankind needs labors... The Curse of God is the Blessing for man... Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Live a life without labors and you will...
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    Poor Theology - follow the wide, easy path

    Have you noticed the speeding up of the days? I thought it was just old age... But the kids are saying the same... Arsenios
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    Who was Melchizedek?

    Please forgive me for dragging you tail-first into such a conclusion... And thank you for having the integrity to be logically so dragged! Well THAT therefore is what I am HERE for! :) Heb 6:17-20 Wherein God, desiring more abundantly to show unto the heirs of Promise the...
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    Who was Melchizedek?

    That is how I read it, but who has what that priesthood requires? John and Harpo and Ollie down at the local Church sure don't seem to have it... Or even know what IT is that Melchidesek had... What is the calling, the Gifts, and the requirements of attainment, of this Priesthood? And who...
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    Who was Melchizedek?

    It is a question that I have not seen ever addressed in the writings of the Fathers of the Church... Nor have I answered it for myself... Arsenios
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    Election

    The God point was totally on accident, OK?? Arsenios :)
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    Did the Pope speak the truth?

    It is most assuredly NOT telling the child that his father is burning in the unbearable agony of the fires of hell for eternity because he was a God-hating atheist... Would such a reply reflect your honest theological assessment? If yes, then I, for one, commend your compassion... Arsenios
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    Did the Pope speak the truth?

    Well presented and true... We are not God, Who WILL have Mercy on whom He WILL have Mercy... No one on earth can say yea or nay about the Salvation of the Atheist... I am personally persuaded that MANY atheists will be far, far ahead of me in the line to heaven... And THAT only IF I make it...
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    I did not come to abolish but to fulfill

    Christ Who was born under the Law Himself fulfilled every jot and tittle of the Law which He caused to be written... THAT is why we are Baptized INTO Christ Who fulfilled the Law... And it is why we are Baptized into His Death on the Cross... Because by baptism into death we are released...
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