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  1. Arsenios

    Justification

    For you the question is obviously not rhetorical... For our brothers here, much the more so is it... For with them I fear, there is no answer for our hopeless sinner's plea... He must simply continue in his sins until Justified in his sins by God... Because he can do nothing but continue in...
  2. Arsenios

    An honest request

    ? Got it! So I know a man dead in his sins who wants to be adopted by Christ... He wants to be righteously justified by God... What should I tell him to do? Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Justification

    Thank-you for not blinking... The Orthodox unwaveringly hold that repentance from evil and turning to God is unto Salvation BY God... That is why the Gospels all begin with John the Baptist baptizing, and end with the Crucifixion and Resurrection... From the Virgin's Womb to the Empty Tomb...
  4. Arsenios

    Justification

    It did afford great insight into the source of Luther's theology... And there is truth in that Lutherans don't necessarily follow Luther... His is the first time I have seen an account of the direct encounter Luther had with Whom he had assumed was God, saying: "YOU ARE OF NO ACCOUNT"... That...
  5. Arsenios

    Justification

    Thank you for this extraordinary clarity... On this accounting, we are totally depraved, and we either continue in the works of this depravity unto our destruction, Yes? OR We accept the works of Christ as our rest in the Lord's Sabbath, YES? And we will do no works, because in our depravity...
  6. Arsenios

    Can babies be conscious of their baptism?

    The child is baptized and the parent rears it in the Faith... The important thing is to get that child baptized and entered into the Communion of the Ekklesia... As to sins, the Psalm sings: "For behold, I was conceived in iniquity, and in sins did my mother bear me..." So that demonic...
  7. Arsenios

    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    We bake ours for every Communion Service... I want to think Christ had baked bread for the Passover meal... Bread is baked daily in households in middle-eastern communities to this day... Arsenios
  8. Arsenios

    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    Fr. Arsenii in the Russian Gulag managed a Communion Service once with held-back bread and smuggled grape juice, with the Zeks (prisoners) remembering the entire hour and a half Service by rote, and doing it when sleep was desperately needed... For the Pascha Service, I believe... Nobody was...
  9. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    This life was given to you for repentance... Do not waste it in vain pursuits... St. Isaac the Syrian
  10. Arsenios

    An honest request

    "Justification (narrow)" has not yet been clearly differentiated from "Justification (broad)" that I have seen - The jump is made from "Justification (narrow)" to "Sanctification"... And when I tried to get a definition of Sanctification, I was only told that it is progressive, as opposed to...
  11. Arsenios

    An honest request

    I would be very interested in seeing your response to this book. Would you do a 'precis' summary and review of it here for us when you finish it? You know, the condensed Cliff Notes summary and critique? Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Justification

    Well, I would just guess - And this is just a guess - That this was written early in Luther's life close to his break with the Latin Church... He is speaking as a monk, and knows the difference between the two repentances... The one is the repentance of discipleship, and the other is that...
  13. Arsenios

    Justification

    Actually, the Roman Empire moved its capitol from Rome, Italy, to New Rome (Constantinople) - And the Islamics even of last century referred to the Orthodox there as the Rom... So we are Roman Catholics - GASP!!! and have been since Constantine... The Latin Communion of the West under the Pope...
  14. Arsenios

    Justification

    I hope I didn't say that - Although being a Latin Monk, he would hold the Latin view of that history, I should imagine... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Justification

    Well, we have been agreeing on this ever since your first iteration of it a bizillion instances ago... And the question is what role does this "dead in Adam homo sapiens" have in the ekonomia of Salvation that the Faith of Christ (which Christ gave us) disciples? What is man to do in order...
  16. Arsenios

    Justification

    Thank you - I was unclear on that one Well, the times were strange... The break-up of the power of the Latin Church to enforce theology was being inaugurated, and battle lines drawn, etc etc... So it would not be anything unusual for the Reformationists to invoke whatever forces they might...
  17. Arsenios

    Justification

    You make compelling the case for our profound need of an ongoing life of vigilance against sin... And even moreso... For our profound need to be ever-confessing and ever-repenting from sin as well! You are my hero! :) The defense rests! Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    I would like to post here pithy sayings of the Ancient Christian Fathers as they are given to me each week in our Church Bulletin and other sources... All are invited to contribute such morsels too... Here are this week's: Just as it is natural for ocean rocks to be pounded by waves...
  19. Arsenios

    Justification

    I love the kindness you display in this understanding... The key to the text is the term "enlightened" - It means Baptism... And Lot's wife, who upon looking back - And this means returning to one's previous ways of living - was turned into a pillar of salt... So that the meaning is that once...
  20. Arsenios

    Justification

    Heb 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, And have tasted the good word of God, and the Powers of the Age to come, If they should fall away... So much for your "once and for all"...
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