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  1. Arsenios

    Basilica Block Party

    Her spirit reappears in Luke: Luk 7:47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. Luk 7:48 And he said unto her, "Thy sins are forgiven." Indeed, sin is reckoned through intentions, and...
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    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    I should think that he would ask for such help himself... Absent such a request, such "help" would be presumptuous, would it not? Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Indeed! To say that a man's own doings have nothing to do with Salvation is patently false... Man does just fine of his own doings in sins, and no-one denies this... And IF man DOES his own sins, he has the POWER to DO his own sins... And IF man has this power to DO sin, then he also has the...
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    Election

    So practically speaking, IF there is NOTHING I can do to join the Elect... Grab the Beer and the remote and WAIT for God to do something?? Arsenios
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    Election

    The Sheol Brothers!! Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Election

    We are off topic here... If you want to we can discuss it on its own thread... It is not a feature of the Orthodox Catholic Faith of the East, so I have no dog in the ring... And it seems like a lose-lose - I cannot embrace it, and you cannot abandon it... Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    Who was Melchizedek?

    I thought so myself! Because, you see, we are Baptized INTO Christ... We thus become MEMBERS of the Body of Christ... Christ Himself claims us to BE Himself to Saul on the Road to Damascus... So as the incarnate Body of Christ, we have to somehow BE within that Order... A logical approach...
  8. Arsenios

    Do the ends justify the means?

    The Bible is not a moralistic book... It is the Book of God... She lied to the enemies of God for the sake of the Servants of God... She risked her life for their sakes... And here you come all righteous and moralistic... And call her a sinner because she acted to protect God's Servants...
  9. Arsenios

    Do the ends justify the means?

    No she didn't... Had she betrayed the spies, THEN... She would have sinned... But she did NOT betray the SERVANTS of God to God's ENEMIES... THAT would BE a SIN... So you are mistaken in this approach... Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Salvation

    You do seem to have a penchant for such un-healthy enjoyments... The word in James is SYNERGIZES... Faith and works SYNERGIZE... BY works is Faith matured/perfected... Plain James 2... Sigh....... Arsenios
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    Poor Theology - follow the wide, easy path

    My question would be more overall - How many churches are growing at all? Mega-churches seem to but be taking the over-spill from small church departures... Are they bringing in new Christians? Or merely harvesting old ones...? In the main - There will obviously be both... Arsenios
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    Poor Theology - follow the wide, easy path

    Those days ARE being shortened... For some years now... A lot... Arsenios Who is lucky to get 10 hours out of a 24 hour day...
  13. Arsenios

    Election

    That is intercession for the living who failed a trial and are doing all they can to regain what they lost... For the life of me, MC, I have been unable to grasp the mind-set of that culture to the point where I can speak from it with any kind of intuitive competence... I read once that the...
  14. Arsenios

    Election

    It is my default - Variance requires great need... You mean local CC history? On this site? I am an Eastern Orthodox Catholic Christian... The Church of the first 7 Ecumenical Councils... Which the Roman (eg Latin) Catholics affirm... Motives are personal... Their record is in the...
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    Salvation

    Demotic Greek is the inheriter of Koine Greek... My friend Leonides decries the translation of the Bible into current Athenian Demotic Greek... In the Lord's Prayer, for instance, he complains: "Give us this day our daily bread..." Is now translated as: "Give us this day a loaf of bread..." I...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation

    If there is no faith that is alone, then faith alone does not exist... Logically you are arguing that something that does not exist is what saves you... From the Orthodox point of view, it is not your faith that saves you anyway... It is THE Faith which Christ discipled to His Apostles that...
  17. Arsenios

    Do the ends justify the means?

    I am surprised no one has replied... When murderers ask you to help find them more victims, you do not help them... Indeed, diverting them from their evil is a good thing... Nazis looking for Jend ws are helped most by not being helped... And sometimes by being prevented from doing what they...
  18. Arsenios

    Election

    A lovely post... So do you think that Indulgences are a perversion of ekklestiastical forgiveness? Of a Bishop's failure to forgive? Or of an imprisoned martyr's intercession for someone excluded in penance from receiving the Gifts of the Altar? That seems odd to me, because it is an after...
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    Election

    That -kle- and -lek- are two different roots? Arsenios
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    Election

    MC says it is the Merit of Christ (as doled out through the Saints, I think) that is granted by the Church to those who engage in acts of charity for the sake of departed loved ones... This is not an Orthodox doctrine, but we do have a parallel doctrine that might be showing the origins of this...
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