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Dear Matt88, it is alright. I just took the reference to the islamic brotherhood in your post as an introduction to shed some light on the history, ideology and way this group operates through listing some references in order to better understand th…
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In a rare move, the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition party, endorsed the Christian protests, accusing the Interior Ministry of failing to protect churches adequately." How nice ! In Egypt, we have a saying: " Kill a victim and walk in his …
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Whilst it is true that St Leo the Great did have slightly unorthodox views regarding Rome's primacy (though by no means the same as current RCC doctrine) it is a mistake to say that this was ever accepted by the rest of the Church, nor by the Counci…
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One of the greatest teacher of the Orthodox Church, St. Pope Cyril the Pillar of Faith, has once said: "If we fear to preach the truth because that causes us some inconvenience, how, in our gatherings can we chant the combats and triumphs of our ho…
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Dear Iqbal, The Chalcedonian Church erred grievously in history, but we should nonetheless look upon her as a long lost sister, hoping and waiting for her return to the Church. Until they do return to the Church, they remain lost. In addition, the r…
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Satvro i think you are forgeting that the coptic church is also considered are heritcal church. This is a stupid lie and it does not stand the test of history or logic. You will have to produce any heretical sayings by our Fathers and prove that the…
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Look at all the blood shed through the ages, being shed right now, all in the name of defending "correct belief." Are you saying that this is what God wants? This has nothing to do with our discussion. I do not believe that anybody here advocate…
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Does God's mercy extend to those who, through no fault of their own, are not within the boundaries of the true Church? It is through their fault that they never searched for the true God or have rejected the true faith when presented to them. It is …
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Dear Iqbal, thanks for the correction. You are right about the historian, although it would not make much difference. I would suggest the book by Abona Menasah Youhana "The History of the Coptic Church", " The history of the Coptic Nation" by Yaco…
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St. Pope Cyril IV was certainly not an iconolast, it is an incorrect information that has no basis in any history books other than Meyendorff and those who quote from him, but he does not mention any credible source. The Protestants have indeed bur…
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The Pope willingly seperated himself from the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church by declaring himself to be the head of the whole universal Church, and not just the Patriarchate of Rome (i.e. Western Europe and North-West Africa) and adding to…
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It would be nice, with the Pascha week coming, to commission deacons or deaconesses with research about the origins of the different hymns and about the hymnology of these hymns, and let them present a two minute summary of the hymn before it is cha…
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Rony, may the Lord be with you. I enjoyed the discussion with you, and I have made the points I wanted to emphasize by commenting on the good points you made. As you mentioned Vatican II, I must comment that even conservative Catholics may have p…
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[quote author=Rony link=board=1;threadid=69;start=30#msg51614 date=1143872319] I am of course Coptic Orthodox, baptized even by a Bishop. but I will not hear one more word from anyone in my church about how Catholics will never be saved and how Copt…
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I interpret this as Jesus not wanting us to be fundamentalist Christians. One has to be careful in defining the terms. "Fundamentalism", in its true and pure form, means to go back the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the Christian faith are the te…
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Spiritual guidance is limited to coming from priests/monks... the nuns can turn to each other for guidance, or to the head nun for guidance... We have to differentiate between adminsitering the sacraments of the Church, which is solely the taks and …
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This is why Coptic Orthodox Christians and Catholics alike believe that they individually posess the true faith. It is because they have the wrong information about each other's faith. I do not believe that the Coptic Orthodox Church, or the people …
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[quote author=newbie link=board=1;threadid=625;start=15#msg51232 date=1143505721] well , i agree with everything that is said , but i want to add somthing to it , the teachings of diffrence of religions and other religion is not a sin , it is even b…
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[quote author=Of All Nations link=board=1;threadid=2943;start=15#msg51238 date=1143509121] So say someone had the lefafa in there hand and covered their mouth after taking the blood, and the blood landed on the lefafa, do u burn the lefafa as well?[…
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I would suggest not to make it a set of rules to follow, rather explain that to be a christian is the fruit of personal experiences and convictions, and the work of Christ through the Holy Spirit in the life of the person. The foundation is more imp…
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...it is a symbol for the seal on the tomb of Christ, awaiting for the resurrection of Christ in you after the Blood is taken.
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It is great to get into theological studies, but put in mind that it is not a guranantee for being a priest in the OO traditions. Priesthood is not a career, it is a service. It definitely helps a priest to have knowledge in various christian areas …
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Good luck in your soccer tryout. If this is what you want to do, I hope you become a good example of sportmanship as well as skills and talent. It was my dream growing up to be a football player, yet it is a hard decision to make at a young age. If …
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had a lil chat with a friend of mine at college and he said that he is catholic and that some relative gave birth to a baby before getting married, so the baby was considred son of devil and was not baptised in a catholic church. I doubt that the …
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[quote author=sandrahanna link=board=4;threadid=3410;start=0#msg49892 date=1142298046] what about if someone got killed in a war or something..does he gets prayed on? GBU sandra [/quote] Fighting in war is not inherently a sin, and some of the grea…
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is there any other occasions that we don't pray on the dead?? The general rule is that somebody who died while committing his sins does not get a prayer at the Church. Most suicide cases are such, but there are some exceptions like people who burn …
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Great choices by everybody. Does anybody consider having patron saints like St. Athanasius the Apostolic, who saved the christian faith from a grave heresy and in fact is to be thanked for fighting against the whole world to protect the Orthodox F…
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The social side of the question is clear, whether in Egypt or outside Egypt. In Egypt, there are basically only christians and muslims, with muslim being a dominant 80-85 % of the population. Dating back to 1952, after the revolution, christians ha…