i remember the first time i seen it, it was at a non denominational church, I couldnt believe what I saw. And i was thinking the same thing Coptic youth said. It truly is disrespectful. I really hope we (coptic orthodox Church) NEVER does anything l…
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I asked this question ages ago on tasbeha.org.
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did you get an answer?? If you did can you just give me the link
some muslims guy showed me this verse a long time ago, but i never got into looking it up. They claim that is proof that the bible is corrupt, that here there 2 different writers of the bible wrote two different things.
go on youtube and type in noahs ark, they actually have videos and photos of where they think the ark is, and a photo which they think is the actually ark itself.
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I live in New Jersey. Nothing happened in the US. You guys have to realize that these protests either do nothing or make things worse for the poor Copts in Egypt. I have co…
i heard they are already doing somthing like protestesting about it, they did it in the US already i think, and in france, and this saturday there doing it in Canada, all because of what happened to the 3 monks in egypt
We are to forgive others for our own benefit. If we dont forgive others the devil uses this against us. Say someone says something bad to me, and i dont forgive him, after a while i will start to hate him, and later it might go as far as me having h…
Ultimately its Gods choice when you are to be baptised. So if God truly wanted you to be baptised right now, he would have lead you to another abouna who would say yes, or he would have somehow made this abouna think you were ready. There is no rus…
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The Orthodox church does not believe in us inheriting the ORIGINAL SIN. Some other christian denom…
The Orthodox church does not believe in us inheriting the ORIGINAL SIN. Some other christian denominations believe in this. God is not going to punish you for something someone else did thousands of years ago.
We inherited the falled nature, which…
first of all, Univeristy is hard for many people not just you. University students are put under stressfull situations and are expected to pass. It is true that many get kicked out, but i find that the reason they get kicked out is because they choo…
I really like that answer iqbal posted quoting one of st athanasius' lectures. Makes perfect sense... But might I just add, nothing big, kind of off topic, but guys, try not to use sarcasm towards one another. Im not saying im perfect and never do s…
all you have to do is pray, I was listening to a sermon by father anthony messeh and he said, you must be married to Christ before you are married to another person. Build a strong relationship with the Lord, ask the Lord to become closer to him, an…
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St Mary was indeed sinless (i'm not sure if this is only from the moment of conception, ie the H. Spirit overshadowing her to conceive Christ), this is the believe of the majo…
The immaculate conception is a concept the catholics believe, but we reject because it is said that she was BORN without sin, and remained sinless her entire life before and after giving birth to the Lord. Ofcourse we do not believe this because Mar…
that is a very good example you gave. But about the devil laughing at you, thats not true, because the devil will be suffering in hell as well. The devil is not like the king of hell or anything, he as his angels will be suffering in hell probably w…
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Because God in His all-loving state gave human beings the freedom to choose. Some of them choose not to obey God's commandments and thus to be far away from Him. Being far…
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I think the concept of hell was given so our limited human brain can recognize the state we may live in after death if we committed sins. I think hell is our separation from Go…
great answers so far... However, to "Godislove260", even though it is not up to us to choose who goes to heaven or hell, we were already told by our Lord that there is trully only one way to heaven, and that is Christ. Now, that being said, Christ w…
I like playing games :) lol although it does waste a lot of time, so i do use a LOT of my time trying to learn hymns and reading about our church. I also have a job though so i guess that takes up a lot of time as well, plus going out with my frien…
" If I tell abouna :"Abouna, I slept with 100's of women so I could get to know myself better and who I am, I know God disapproves, but I do not regret the past. It made me who i am today". Then he'd tell me to get lost. "
Totally agree with that..…
Ic, thanks alot QT_PA-2T. I guess its okay for me to use it than seeing as how i only want to do it as like a part time thing and only put a few dollars in the market. Definetly wouldnt make that my career tho. Anyone else have any opinions?
We shouldnt be scared, the Lord did not tell us the end times so that were scared still and will try our best to be good so that we get to heaven. Once again, its not only about being good, its about Loving God and wanted to live with God. Many peop…
welcome to the family amgad_2008 lol. Your really gonna love it here, especially the forums, we all learn so much from each other. A great place to strengthen your faith. GB