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  1. Arsenios

    Justification

    Well, may God bless your journey! Mark 8:34 does not go away with your wonderful faith in Christ... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Justification

    I know a guy called Steve the Builder... Steve has some children, you see... It was just a wild question... So... Nice to meet you, Jerry... :) Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Justification

    Mar 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, He said unto them: Whosoever is willing to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. Salvation is not forgiveness of sins... Forgiveness of sins is needed for Salvation... You...
  4. Arsenios

    Justification

    Well, he thinks it is only needed AFTER we are already saved... So what's with your Orthodox Avatar... You name is not Steve, is it? Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Justification

    Nothing like Isaiah... καὶ ἐγενήθημεν And we have become... ὡς ἀκάθαρτοι πάντες ἡμεῖς, as uncleansed, all of us... ὡς ῥάκος ἀποκαθημένης as rags uncleaned πᾶσα ἡ δικαιοσύνη ἡμῶν· all the righteousness of us καὶ ἐξερρύημεν ὡς φύλλα and carried away as leaves διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν...
  6. Arsenios

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

    The Consecrated Bread and Wine ARE the Body and Blood of our Lord... Trans-substantiation does not have much Eastern Orthodox historical traction... The transformation of the Gifts does not change the bread and the wine into something that is NOT bread and wine, but instead the bread and the...
  7. Arsenios

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

    I would simply throw in, not having read the thread, that for the Orthodox, the Consecrated Bread and the Wine ARE the Body and Blood of our Risen Lord... Christ Himself Consecrated the first Bread and Wine, so it clearly does not mean His pre-crucifixion Body and Blood... Prior to His ascent...
  8. Arsenios

    Justification

    I'll be running right with you! Me too... Who says God does not answer prayers? It is easy to do... Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    Justification

    Your argument is with the Bible - Christ told the Apostles to Baptize people INTO Christ... Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Justification

    Well, as YOU say, it is ALL God, and NOTHING me! Then I could blame God for my torments! See why I reject your doctrine? You have a doctrine of the Salvation of man that rules out man's human will... Thereby you have a doctrine of man's Salvation that rules out man... It makes Salvation a...
  11. Arsenios

    Justification

    Roger that! I am luckier than you in a way because the Orthodox Faith believes the Truth and I have no reservations in Her orthodoxy... Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Justification

    Well, God had been bugging me for years and years and years to read the Book of John, as I wandered around through the world looking for people who knew God as I knew Him, and no one did... "You need to read the Book of John..." "Yeah, yeah... I will get around to it, what's the big...
  13. Arsenios

    Justification

    By your logic I can return to my pile of vomit then with the other dogs... And then you can tell me: "God does it all, Arsenios..." Never have been... I was baptized into Christ by Christ through the Servants of Christ into His Baptism in the Jordan... Admittedly, I did have to strong...
  14. Arsenios

    Justification

    Please do not pretend to be God and know my heart... You do not know me... Thank-you... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Justification

    No question - Yet I did not come to Him... I simply tried and failed to be the physician of my own soul... Then God came to me... And I denied the existence of God... Heck, I can still prove God does not exist... I even proved it to God... :) Turns out that I was right - God is the GIVER...
  16. Arsenios

    Justification

    No one said that I did... Actually, I was living an intensely repentant life unto blood resisting sin... And I got to the point of getting to the bottom of my soul, and finding no answer there... I had failed at self-cure, and there was no where else to look... So I was done, and simply...
  17. Arsenios

    Justification

    He repented upon his first encounter with Christ... He did not know he was doing anything wrong... That is silly... We can only love God because God loved us first... Christ intervened with Saul - That was God Calling Saul to repentance from persecuting Christ... And Saul saw the truth and...
  18. Arsenios

    Justification

    Our God is the God of the Living and of the dead... But the argument here is that God is not the God of the dead... That God has to make you Alive by Justification before you can believe in Him... Yet here the God-less atheist hit rock bottom and then finally in desperation cried out to God...
  19. Arsenios

    Justification

    True words spoken by a fellow-former-atheist... I too scorned the Bible and Christians... No Christian brought me to God... Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    Justification

    I asked: "Why is the first word of the Gospel the command to be repenting?"... Your answer was: "I don't claim to be smarter than God." So you are right, we are talking past each other... I read your reply as a total punt... Forgive me... You were instead honestly answering a question that I...
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