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I know, I know...
Ask Paul why he kept sewing those tents when he could have eaten at anyone's table and slept in their homes...
So please pray for my Salvation...
Arsenios
A wonderful theme - "I repented, God, so where is all this Grace You OWE me?"
Instead of thanking God for the Grace of Repentance from sin...
That is why the Church disciples the faithful...
Arsenios
Glory to God in all things!
You desire to glorify Him in your Salvation, and you do well...
Do you glorify Him when ISIS burns people to death watching them die in unbearable agony?
Because that is what ALL things means...
Easy for good things, harder for bad...
Arsenios
Christ's own words:
Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said,
How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare,
and I am perishing with hunger!
We need to hit bottom, in order to come to ourselves...
Blessed are the poor in Spirit...
Arsenios
This holds great promise! :)
That was me...
My hand shot up!
Absolutely me...
Mercy was an affront to justice I say!
He was merely powerless and mentally ill - His ilk I was seeing on the streets daily...
I KNEW he didn't...
Man is the supreme being on earth, not some...
That is also true - We become set in our evil ways and God then can grant us the repentance we need...
This Faith is a vast Mystery...
And when God does grant repentance, then after one has become accustomed to that repentance God has granted, then the granting will be withdrawn, and you will...
Amen - ONLY God CAN give God because only God has God to give...
Amen - Jesus IS the Door AND the Heaven AND the Salvation of man...
Indeed Jesus is found in MANY helpers...
We ourselves add nothing to our Salvation in Christ...
Repentance merely "makes straight the Way" within us...
No need...
Wanna be a lazy Christian? Do only 3% - You will have a 3% share awaiting you...
IF...
You do not FALL to the demon who deceived you into thinking 3% is a good idea...
Exercise diligence, my Brother... Always push a little more for Christ if you can...
Paul, for all his writings...
You are obviously not as dumb as I look...
But then, who COULD be?? :)
Yes, and moreso, that willingness is a matter of degrees, varying from person to person...
So that each person is choosing according to his or her strength, and the measure of the talent(s) given...
And the Purposing of...
I would sure want to think so, but it seems to be ruled out if we are morturary stone cold dead and then all we can do is wait for God to do something that Justifies us so we can then hear and believe and follow...
That is the problem with the "total depravity" theory...
Arsenios
That is my answer too ...
Man does 100% of repentance...
God does 100% of Salvation...
Fallen man is ABLE to repent from evil...
Fallen man is ABLE to embrace evil...
That is simply the consequence of the Fall of Adam...
Adam ate of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good AND evil...
For...
The only good news on the killer is that his courage failed him when it came time to commit suicide...
This means that he will have time to repent...
Authorities have charged him with a Capital Crime...
Close to home changes things...
Statistics become personal events...
Arsenios
If I may...
My Church [Antiochian] is where the followers of Christ were first called Christians...
Act_11:26
And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch.
And it came to pass,
that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church,
and taught much people.
And the...
Well, you were complaining that a lot of
So I brought up Lot, who negotiated verbally in committee with God, and that other guy, I can't think of his name right now, who negotiated ontologically with God, wrestling with God...
My Brother, you can absolutely trust me...
When I say these words...
Forgive me, I thought I was speaking to Josiah, and not to "us"...
Should have been a PM...
I forgot momentarily that you might even be reading that post...
The expression, "Welcome Home", extended by Orthodox Christians to those who have just been baptized into Christ, however, is thoroughly...