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  1. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    I lived 37 years of repentance from sin while knowing for an undisputed FACT that there is no God... Anecdotal evidence, no question... Yet true... That Other Guy Arsenios!! :):):)
  2. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    I was one of these for 37 years, my Brother... I can STILL prove that God does not exist... Nor would I suffer ANY man to discuss God to me... Then I met God over 3 Christmasses... BUT... And this is huge... I had been living a repentant life for 37 years, unbeknownst to me... In a quest for...
  3. Arsenios

    Apologetics

    Do you guys actually believe that the dogmas of the Church can be verified by first hand experience? I'm gonna hold you to that... To add to or subtract from the Nicene Creed is to CHANGE it... Indeed so, and then in the 5th or 6th Council, it was ruled unchangeable, not to be added to...
  4. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    All they need to do is show that it is not the teaching of the Church... Which is not hard to do, because the doctrine asserts that Salvation comes before and is unto repentance... And the teaching of every Church on earth for the first thousand years of the History of Christianity and even up...
  5. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Well Glory to God! Thank-you MC... Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    I thought this thread got closed... Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    The issues Josiah raises are formulaic and doctrinaire, and so are not amenable to practical applications such as you suggest and I myself prefer... The formulaic "narrow justification as the Gifts of God etc" is inferred from Scriptural interpretation and then posited, and is not a formulated...
  8. Arsenios

    Apologetics

    Thank-you for this helpful post... The Orthodox Church sees two facets of dogma - Those formally affirmed by the Councils, almost always in response to some heresy or another, and then empirical dogmatics, which is the Source of the rulings of the Councils,which is a part of the experience of...
  9. Arsenios

    Apologetics

    My sense of the RC is that when the Schism occurred, they understood the Latin Pope to be the Head of the Church Militant sitting in the Chair of Peter, and for that reason, needed to have the Faith systematized for the sake of giving Papal rulings on all possible manner of disputes or issues...
  10. Arsenios

    Christians in the modern world

    That reign ended with the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks after the Christian Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine was established in Constantinople a thousand years before-time... It ended with the Emperor Constantine the XI, who was executed after its fall... That was the thousand year...
  11. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    The Lord Jesus sent Ananias that Saul be filled with the Holy Spirit... And so Ananias baptized Saul... Your own words from Scripture contradict you... This is how it is God Who Baptizes and gives the Holy Spirit... This is why Christ asked Saul why Saul was persecuting Him, Christ... Christ...
  12. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Romans 1:17 (on the Gospel of Christ) dikaiosunh gar yeou en autw Apokaluptetai For Righteousness of God in it is being revealed ek pistewv eiv pistin Out of faith into faith kaywv gegraptai accordingly as it is written o de dikaiov ek pistewv zhsetai The just out of faith shall be living...
  13. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

  14. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Could you perhaps give us an example? I poured a little milk in a small bowl for Tom Kitty this morning and petted him - Is this a good work or an evil one? Was I fore-ordained to give Tom milk this morning? OR... I prayed for a man who died 6 months ago who was my friend, and I just found...
  15. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Who gave the Levitical Mosaic Law to the Pharisee to obey? The defense rests! :) Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    What it shows is God's purpose with fallen man to respect his decisions regarding Good and evil in a fallen world... Christ tried to persuade the Pharisees... Christ desired to persuade the Pharisees... The Pharisees were not persuaded... We must conclude that He failed to win the Pharisees...
  17. Arsenios

    Apologetics

    One of the drivers in favor of polemics is the tactic of understanding a different point of view as polemical, and even as a personal attack... Dare we say that we are seeing the psychoepistemological roots of the sjw's and the demonization of political opponents on the national scene?? Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Who gave him the Law to follow? Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    They saw Him in prophetic visions... Pilate saw Him face to face... So do you think it is the seeing of Jesus in the flesh that is the difference? I have not so seen Him in the flesh... Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    Justification - Part 2

    Thank-you for this clear and forthright reply, Menno... We utterly and profoundly disagree... In Christ we are a New Creation... In Moses, it is still the old creation saturated in the Holy Spirit... Arsenios
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