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  1. Arsenios

    Reasonable truth and simple understanding

    I sure did... I had even bemoaned the fact that Christians had usurped all the noble words of the soul... I was an Ayn Rand Objectivist... But I am not the standard... Did I mention sociopathy? Arsenios
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    Justification - Part 2

    Here is what you said: That should cover it... Arsenios
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    Justification - Part 2

    The word order does NOT support the reading: "Be baptized in order to repent..." But a grammatical argument is no argument at all, and I gave Jesus' holy proclamation: "Because the Kingdom of God has drawn near, be ye repenting..." Mark 1:14 ... This tells us the proper response of those...
  4. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Me too - Back in the OLD Army days... When men were MEN!!! And not a bunch of SISSIES!! Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Are you an old army guy? You are familiar with that quote from Basic Training way back when? Do I now have to thank you for your service?? My life is OVER!!! :):) Arsenios
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    Justification - Part 2

    Do you not say that JUSTIFICATION (narrow) precedes repentance, and that fallen man, whom you call dead unconditionally, is unable to repent without first being so (narrowly) Justified by God?? The Gospel says Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand... YOU say: Be narrowly Justified so you...
  7. Arsenios

    Reasonable truth and simple understanding

    I remember St. Mary of Egypt... And the many Fathers who were solitaries... How they received their Communion... Some travelling to the Liturgy that served it... Some from Angels - St. Herman of Alaska was one of these... The Holy Saints normally cannot live among people all that well... They...
  8. Arsenios

    Reasonable truth and simple understanding

  9. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    "Smoke 'em if you got 'em..." [Old Army saying...] Arsenios
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    While forgiveness is guaranteed to repentance... Tomorrow is not guaranteed to procrastination... [I can't remember which Father gave this]
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    The Lord is so holy, so simple in His holiness, that one single evil or impure thought deprives us of Him, of the sweet and most sweet, of the pure and most pure peace and light of our souls. St. John of Kronstadt
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    All the programs I made—all failed. For this reason, I let God make the program of my life. +Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos of Patmos
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    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Through Adam's fall we not only upset our relationship with God and lost our close communion with Him but also lost all spiritual cognition of our Creator and all inner inclination to such happiness. Bishop Alexander of Mojaisk
  14. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Let's take a look... That is the straw man... IF we have NO role to play in Salvation, the Gospel would then be: "And God said: 'Let all sin be erased from mankind'..." But instead His first word of Salvation is: "Be ye repenting..." Has anyone here denied this? Creation does not HAVE...
  15. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    In reply to Menno, that is what I wrote... He likes to prove everything by the Bible... Yet word order in Koine Greek is important... So the Evangel does NOT say: "BE YE BELIEVING... and then repenting" as you insist it means... I would like to tell you why... We are to PROVE the Gospel of...
  16. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Incineration of (ye olden imaginary) straw man alert! :):):) Arsenios
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    Justification - Part 2

    1Co 13:6 Love rejoiceth not in iniquity Arsenios
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    Justification - Part 2

    And (Christ) saying: "Because the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God has drawn nigh... Be ye repenting and believing in the Evangel." (Good News/Gospel) It is UNTO our participation in that Sacrifice... Second, the gift of faith, was it given by God before repentance and belief or...
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    Justification - Part 2

    It was a kind of pre-Ressurrection ressurrection... Holy Tradition tells us that Lazarus became a Bishop in the Church and lived a long life, and never smiled or joked, for he had descended into Hades, and had seen its misery, and never spoke about it... Christ loved him... That is Biblical...
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    Justification - Part 2

    Dudella! :):) Nice to get the greetings out of the way! The kind that cleared out all the debris in my soul, yet could not heal the wounding it bore... I did not even think I was sinning - I was just trying to dig out a very deep something wrong in my soul... Now it happens to be true...
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