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When you pray from your heart, the yearnings and groanings from deep within yourself are made one with the yearnings and petitions of all the saints, both triumphant and militant. So when you pray alone to God, you're in more company than any other…
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The "unforgivable sin" is willfully and conscientiously rejecting God's call to repentance and salvation. This is considered to be the same as "blaspheming the Holy Spirit" in so far as you are considering the works and calling of God "as of no acc…
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I used to live in Bradenton..... ::)
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Often times, simply reading the Bible without even necessarily trying to gain knowledge out of it, is in itself a way to lift up one's spirits. Reading the Bible, in and of itself, cleanses the soul and thus brings joy to the heart. Plus prayer is…
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hmmmm.....more subtle globalization, politically correct propaganda maybe?
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Well, if people want to go that route, then I'd have to say that Christian rap is probably equally as bad, if not worse, for the reason that Christian rappers are usually Protestant, and as such, will tend to espouse a shallow, twisted version of th…
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ummm....Origen cut off something else, not his eye....but I don't think that was the reason he was not canonized.....the real reason is that he spread some funny ideas, like re-incarnation; the belief that all of our souls "pre-existed" before the F…
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well, the REAL challenge to Orthodox Christianity is not so much Cosmology (dealing with big bangs and what-not), but the OTHER branch of physics: Quantum Mechanics. Basically every particle in the universe is both a wave and a particle. When you …
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St. Moses the Black.
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yes...quite stupid, indeed......if I were to pick a false religion, I'd at least pick one a little bit more appealing....like Buddhism or Hinduism. :-X
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All of God's creation is good in so far as it has being. Therefore Satan's being is good.....he simply does bad things.
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Actually....if I remember correctly, I believe J.R.R. Tolkien was actually a friend of C.S. Lewis.
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Yeah.....J.R.R. Tolkien (the author of "The Rings" series) was also a Christian....though the symbols in that seriers are not as obvious as in the Narnia Chronicles.
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I know that in the Antiochian Church (which is what I am), anyone can take the holy qurban (or korbana...or however else u want to spell it), even non-Orthodox or catechumens.....if not, then what would be the point?
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the difference between gambling and the stock market is that there is some element of predictability within the stock market (like for example, not as many people will buy Delta Airlines tickets during the month of February as during the month of Ju…
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I don't feel comfortable with my FOC either.....and I'm a 27-year-old guy.
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I am Antiochian, actually..... No....the Antiochian Orthodox Church is Eastern Orthodox (EO), so they are not in Communion with the Coptic Church....what you're probably thinking about is the Syrian Orthodox Church, which ALSO has its Patriarch in …
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It's quite possible that it could be chemical......ask your doctor if anti-depressants are recommended for you.....if the depression lasts longer than two weeks, it is probably that you need anti-depressants (now I'm starting to sound like a Paxil c…
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this sounds similar to a situation in the movie "Labyrinth" (viva David Bowie!)..... You ask any one of them, "What would the other say if I asked him which is the true way?" the Lord Jesus says about Satan, "There is no truth in him".....so the e…
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tattoos are a weird thing..... Among the ancient (and modern) pagans, it was believed that when you tattoo yourself, a certain "spirit" will reside in you permanently.....for example, if you were a Masai who tattooed a design resembling the god of …
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I thought the whole priest-behind-the-screen thing was only something they did in the movies? ???
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Tell your teacher that it was the Church which canonized the Bible, so to interpret the Bible in a way that contradicts the Church's position on it is to be inconsistent. If you accept all the books of the Bible as canonical, then are you not contr…