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  1. Arsenios

    Grace

    That seems eminently wholesome and true, but how does it say this that you cited it for? Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, Which is true... but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. This is what I am questioning... This is not addressed in...
  2. Arsenios

    If a business owner doesn't have your values do you visit their establishment?

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  3. Arsenios

    Grace

    Mere becoming does not necessarily entail evolution... Change of itself can be for better or for worse... I get nervous around people who love change for the sake of change... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Grace

    The Creation Account is speaking about that which is prior to time... So I don't know if your "in other words" of "Theistic Evolution" still applies... ?? Arsenios
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    If a business owner doesn't have your values do you visit their establishment?

    From the other side of this, I am the owner of a small business, its chief stockholder, and chief executive officer... I like to tell people I am so important that I have to make an appointment just to talk to myself... My business card has a prominent cross in the center of it somewhat like...
  6. Arsenios

    Grace

    Well, as an Orthodox Christian, having never heard of this doctrine, I would ask its attestation... Please... I do not recognize this voice as the Voice I know... In practical terms, does it not imply ethically that we are to become a part of the perfecting of creation if we are in Christ...
  7. Arsenios

    Salvation

    It was a mountain pass that was so narrow that the camels had to be unloaded in order to get them through it, and then reloaded on the other side, with all the labor of hand carrying the cargo through the pass and reloading it, which has lovely implications for the meaning of repentance... But...
  8. Arsenios

    Grace

    An astonishing statement! Philosophically true enough, I suppose, since creation as we know it is always in a state of becoming... God did say that creation was very good prior to Adam... Any idea of where this teaching comes from? Which Church Father and where? Arsenios
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    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    The search term was one of the biggest words in the Greek Language... Not all the vss addressed your narrow issue... But those three did... The search term is "ean" or "ei"... It simply means IF EVER or IF... Related to keeping the Covenant, these three signify a personal choice on the part...
  10. Arsenios

    Salvation

    And what about those camels squeezing their way through the eye of a needle? Some say it is a narrow mountain pass... Some a mooring line for large ships... All of which is to say that believing in God is better than believing in seeds and camels... Mind you:) Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Maybe not but coffee comes pretty close... I have heard it whispered in hidden crannies that... It is possibly the Eighth Sacrament... Definitely a post-liturgical crutch... Arsenios
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    Pope Francis tells gay man: 'God made you like that and loves you like that'

    Ps 51 "For behold! I was conceived in iniquity... And in sins did my mother bear me..." God permits us such an inheritance... that we find healing for it in repentance... Unto the 7th generation... This does not mean that God conceives us in iniquity... We do just fine in that enterprise all...
  13. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Now you've got me a-wondering if that big ol' tree is an actual cullinary cultivar! Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Gosh - I didn't know they could grow into actual botanical, bird nest bearing trees either... So much for OUR theory, Albion... I mean, how good is THAT!? Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Justice Kennedy retires July 31

    May that appointment be blessed. Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    Grace

    You end up going to bed about the time I am getting up from bed and sleep... So between us, we might have things covered, I say! Meanwhile, what does the RCC teach about the relationship between God's providence and created grace vs uncreated grace? You wrote this: "Human beings really have...
  17. Arsenios

    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    This is solidly Biblical via Paul's Epistle to the Romans, because he begins "election" with God's Foreknowledge of persons... So God knows before we do what we will do, and He knows this in the face of the fact that in this fallen condition of mankind we have self-authority that is...
  18. Arsenios

    Grace

    God Bless you brother - That is all you need... Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    Grace

    The issue is the central feature of our understanding of what it is that Salvation is... Scripture records that we are saved by Grace through Faith... And that this is the Gift of God... So clearly it is not our faith that saves us, because if it is, then we save ourselves... Clearly also, we...
  20. Arsenios

    Grace

    This is from the RC Conference Papers' Catechism on Grace: ______________________________________________________________ The nature of Actual Grace Actual Grace is a supernatural gift of God, enabling us to do something towards eternal life. It is supernatural, because it is a help towards...
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