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  1. Arsenios

    Salvation

    I have encountered Protestants who have encountered God as I did... Extraordinary folks these... Not many of them... I am the only ex-atheist I know who did so apart from the Church... Arsenios
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    Salvation

    Exactly right - The Mystery of the Marriage of the Lamb - A relationship far more intimate than marriage... For the Orthodox, that marriage is consumated at/by Pentecost... And Pentecost is a profoundly Spiritual event... Not necessarily a private one... Arsenios
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    Competing ideals and philosophies

    This last is the "Great Horologion" which is very large and comprehensive, and $114... Like you, I am a sucker for a prayer book... My favorite is the Psalter... I has a weekly prescription for reading it entirely each week... According to the Kathismata... The Service Books you show...
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    How do you intepret these verses?

    Menno has not yet grasped that the Body of Christ HAS organizations... He seems to think that the Apostolic Church IS an Organization... I tried to show him that he could find what the Original Church looked like... IF he were to look at all the Apostolic Churches today existing... And KEEPING...
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    How do you intepret these verses?

    Well, we ARE guaranteed forgiveness for repentance... Even though we are not guaranteed tomorrow for procrastination... You seem harsh, judgemental, and unforgiving, my Brother... Whose fruit are you?? Arsenios
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    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    What a gracious post, you scruffy Old Goat lover! :) Just for that, ya gotta now BEG me to be MEAN to you! Take THAT and SUFFER!!! Arsenios - The Goats-bearder!
  7. Arsenios

    This generation ...

    The Orthodox view of Revelation is a-millennial... The Book of Revelation is not read in our Churchs... But the very Structure of our Church is a reflection of that Book... And this is because we understand Revelation as a descriptive... A descriptive of the Life of the Christian Faith in...
  8. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    The holy Fathers referred to 'mine' and 'thine' as cold words, and wherever they are found, the bond of love is absent and Christ has departed. St. Gregory Palamas
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    O foremost in the ranks of Apostles, and teachers of the world, O Peter and Paul. Intercede with the Master of all, to grant safety to the world, and to our souls the Great Mercy. -- Apolytikion of Saints Peter and Paul Sung in prayer each June 29th in the Holy Orthodox Churches...
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    ...those who reject fasting take away from themselves and from others the arms against their flesh, with, its manifold passions, and against the Devil, both of which are especially powerful against us through our intemperance; St. John of Kronstadt
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Why art thou wholly given up to the passions and desires of the flesh, and why is there no looking upward? Know thou that all flesh is grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of my Lord, which by the...
  12. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    The Christian, who is called to a heavenly country, who is only a stranger and a sojourner upon earth, ought not attach his heart to anything earthly, but should cling to God alone, the Source of life, our resurrrection, and the Life eternal. St. John of Kronstadt
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    For even if we do not seek virtue, but at least praise it, we shall perhaps be able to attain it; and even if we do not avoid evil, but at least censure it, we shall perhaps be able to escape it. St. John Chrysostom
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Like a tree planted by streams of water, (Ps. 1:3) the soul is irrigated by the Holy Scriptures and acquires vigor, produces tasty fruit, namely, true faith, and is beautified with a thousand green leaves, namely actions that please God. The Holy Scriptures, in fact, lead us towards pure...
  15. Arsenios

    How do you intepret these verses?

    And their lighted cities are their printed copies of the Bible translated from its original language which they struggle to interpret according to their consciences and with the aid of the Holy Spirit... Leading to differing interpretations... I mean, God bless them! They in effect function...
  16. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Joh 17:11-12 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: That they may be one...
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    How do you intepret these verses?

    It served as a bump... But so differing is Protestant thinking that our words here in this united witness of the Apostolic Faith in them is as if we are proclaiming into the Void... They do not understand the Power of Christ when HE Baptizes us INTO Himself... Because for them, Baptism is not...
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    Why are Some Saved and Not Others?

    If you are right, then God is abandoning them... Arsenios
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    Why are Some Saved and Not Others?

    Wow... Nothing could be more false... Actually, that is why repentance and discipleship, learning to carefully observe all that Christ commanded us to be doing, is far more important than the vanity of the intellectual mastery of the Bible... Why? Actually, it proves that God actually...
  20. Arsenios

    Chris Pratt - MTV Award speech: Courageous?

    I love how in-your-face his acceptance speech was right there in the den of lions... Most were perhaps too shocked to boo... Some were stand up and shout supportive... They are a jaded batch, that audience... I like the command: "Be very careful in your Christian walk... Because... You may...
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