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  1. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    And the Church in Antioch? And Jerusalem? Which denomination did the Church of Rome get absorbed INTO?? Or the Church of the Greeks? Or the Arabs in Antioch? Or the Jews in Jerusalem? Were they not all one Body of Christ in various geographical locations? If they were all denominated, then...
  2. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    It would not be the first time... The word CHOSEN has been added to the Bible in this veresion... The word CHOSEN has again been ADDED TO the Bible in this passage... These first two simply say: "by the Will of God" and that by way of the greeting line of the epistle, and not by content...
  3. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Paul wrote to "the Ekklesia in Rome" and "the Ekklesia in Corinth" and "the Ekklesia in Thessalonika"... These Churches still exist... Are they all denominations? I was very stunned as I approached the Orthodox Church on hearing the Russians interrogating Americans who wanted to join the...
  4. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    This is Faith: Faith is the basis of deeds done for the sake of things hoped for... It is proof of things not (yet) seen... It certainly CAN be... But the implication is that one must HOPE for something, one must desire some outcome, and that one must in that desire THINK that certain...
  5. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Think of it as a side-bar... Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    I agree with your disagreement... But the Church is catholic... It is fully present wherever it is found... Any "part" IS the Whole Body of Christ... Schism, which is division, is horrific... Denominations are divisions... Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Well, He did call SINNERS to repentance... You seem to say that He did not uttery TRANSFORM them into Sons of the Most High... I do too, with all the Orthodox Christians, call myself chief among sinners... Do you not also confess as Paul confesses? Arsenios, you've created a delusional...
  8. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Did you turn on your hearing aid?? :):) Of course it is - It is denominated after Calvin... It is named after the name of the man named Calvin... The Institutes maybe?? We do somehow manage to see things differently! :) Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    A person doing good can, for instance, get righteously screwed over in doing good and repent from ever doing such good again... "Turning to God IN Repentance" means that repenting from evil is first, and turning to God comes within that turning away... The Gospel is "Repent, for the Kingdom of...
  10. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    It literally means a change of the nous, or mind - Mind - Not merely some thought in the mind, but the mind... The Nous... It is a turning away, my friend... Adam turned away from God and ate the Fruit... When man turns away from the Fruit... EVEN IF he has forgitten the Father... And is...
  11. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    They flat out don't get it! This conversation is 60 years in the making! Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    SURPRISE!!! Arsenios :):)
  13. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    This kind of thinking is why I would not abide what I then understood as Christians to even have a conversation with me, so doctrinaire and judgemental was their approach... I was a terror, I say! I would punish them with logical arguments that would destroy their pretense... I won every...
  14. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    I was a free will atheist... A.
  15. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    You kiddin' me? I was a doctrinal, Ayn Rand Atheist... I can STILL prove God does not exist... Heck, I proved it to God! But I did make a committment to Truth as a 4-5 year old one night... And forgot doing so until I was almost 40... Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    How can an unbeliever please God?

    Isa 65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, "Behold me, behold me," unto a nation that was not called by my name. Rom 10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, "I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them...
  17. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    It means something named... Something nominated... The NAME of the Faith of Christ is the NAME "CHRISTianity"... So by your standards, Christianity is a denomination... Just like Calvinism is a denomination... Just like Lutheranism is a denomination... Whatever name one gives to their...
  18. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    My Brother, I LOVE your optimism!! HOWEVER............ May I perhaps be permitted to ADD to your illuminating observation: They were both singularly human UNLIKE you and me! Indeed they did, and yet somehow neither one called himself chosen and elect... Overcoming obsession is a good...
  19. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Indeed it is about the heroes, but moreso, it is about the faith they embraced, and is so because it begins "este de pistis", which is how Greek proclaims: THIS IS FAITH, and the heroes of the Faith all are illustration of this power, indeed this Holy Power... I have always understood that...
  20. Arsenios

    When is our name written in the book of life?

    Loss of Salvation? We must remain vigilant against sin to the end... Just as the Wise Thief gained Paradise at the end by turning to God, so can the Saint lose his Salvation at the end, should he turn from God... Nobody is so high and mighty that they cannot fall from Grace given... And no...
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