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  1. Arsenios

    Justification

    Do the Lutherans agree that it is God Who Baptizes? That personal repentance is prerequisite to Baptism? That there is no Salvation apart from - eg prior to - Repentance? That Salvation in Christ is initiated in Baptism? That Justification is a consequence of repentance, and not its cause? I...
  2. Arsenios

    Justification

    Thank-you... So was the EOC a party to these early debates? Or were we simply being used by Reformation apologists to bolster their standing in the debates? Because when I read the letters some time back, I had the feeling that the Lutherans contacted the Patriarch for the purpose of...
  3. Arsenios

    Justification

    FAKE NEWS! The Truth is we created from their oral language a written language for the Slavs/Russians and the Aleuts of Alaska, and translated Scripture and the Service Books into Cyrillic and Yuptic... That is our Theology of Mission... It is why we gave the Latin Church the Latin Bible...
  4. Arsenios

    Justification

    I thought you believed in the Bible... Where in the Bible does the Spirit Baptize? Whom did Christ Commission to Baptize all the Nations? Matt 28:19 Did Christ Command the Spirit to Baptize all the Nations? Whom does John say will come after Him Who was before him? Whom does John say will...
  5. Arsenios

    Justification

    How so? Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Justification

    What YOU said! Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    Justification

    Lutherans tried,and desired to enter into a theological debate with the Patriarch... He offered to teach them the Faith that existed without change... They preferred debate... He said no - Write only for friendship... That was it... Here is a page about this exchange from both EO and...
  8. Arsenios

    Justification

    When did this happen, MennoSota? First century? Fifth? Tenth? Fifteenth? Tell me when and where and how... IF you can do so... Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    Justification

    No - It is but a symptom... We started out with a thousand years of the Faith in which the Latins were the holiest and most persecuted Church on earth... Being made Pope was a sentence of martyrdom for the one appointed... Then came the German Bishops who took over the Papacy - A warrior...
  10. Arsenios

    Justification

    There is nothing wrong with having one's very own printed Bible, but IF the basis of your Faith is the Written, and not the Discipling of the Apostolic Church that wrote it out of their practice of the Faith of which the Bible bears written witness, then one is living in violation of what is...
  11. Arsenios

    Justification

    It is speaking of the perfecting of the Faith in the person who is practicing it... Doing the works prescribed by the Faith works together with the Faith to perfect the Faith in the person doing its works... Not the works of the Law, but the works of the Faith of Christ... If one does not do...
  12. Arsenios

    Justification

    He appears to us now as He did after His Ascension after Pentecost... eg - in His Holy Ones... Those perfected in His Faith... These folks exist this day and hour... And every day and hour... They are not all that easy to find... Arsenios
  13. Arsenios

    Justification

    For the Orthodox, we mean the establishment of a NEW CREATION IN GOD... The new relationship flows from that... As do the Gifts... Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Justification

    Thank-you... With the definite article in front of Faith - eg THE Faith - It has to be construed as something definite... So WHICH Faith is THE Faith? It is obviously Christ's Faith, which He discipled to His disciples whom He sent forth as Apostles to disciple all the nations, teaching them...
  15. Arsenios

    Justification

    It's my work truck - I ain't no hard-body construction guy... But I do work for a living... In the trades... The point is we somehow managed one thousand five hundred years of Christianity with the Churches alone having Bibles... The exceptions are very few and very very far between...
  16. Arsenios

    Justification

    I know - Without my Lexus, where would I be??? So I trust Lexus... And I shudder not! A. :)
  17. Arsenios

    Justification

    Me 3... You 2? A.
  18. Arsenios

    Justification

    That is not true - I said that it refers to similar encounters with God, not that it accounts for them according to knowledge... At least, that is what I intended to say... And my age, squeezing juice out of exact parsings of my words in conversation will only get you drool! :):) Do you...
  19. Arsenios

    Justification

    The EO teachings are simple, if ineffably profound, and unchanging now for 2000 years, during which time most of the theological wrinkles have been ironed out... I am offering you nothing new here... Did Christ succeed in establishing His Body the Ekklesia upon this earth? Or did He fail, and...
  20. Arsenios

    Justification

    I am very embarrased to say this, but I am trusting you more and more! Oh the SHAME!!! A. :)
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