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We are not Pharisees. Drinking water does not change the efficacy and the need for communion. In fact, as Christ says, it is not what enters the stomach that defiles the body. It is sin that defiles a person before communion, not tooth brush water. …
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Old manuscript evidence shows that the wedding ceremony in the 18th-19th century had many hymns before the gospel, one of them was nikhora. Pipneuma was said after the crowning before Khen evran. Whether or not, it is appropriate to say Pipneuma at …
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The whole hymn (melismatic and fast tunes) is also in the HCOC's Papal hymns collection.
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Copticopa,I am not saying you are dishonest. I am saying your approach was dishonest. Assuming a theory is guilty of malicious intention from the start is a dishonest way to approach truth. It has nothing to do with you personally. I have seen many …
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Copticopa, I understand your zeal against evolution but your approach to me seems dishonest. You addressed Mina's point of consistency as an example of an intelligent criminal wanting to cover his tracks through an alibi. The implication is that if …
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Ophadece,The Paschal doxology Thok te tigom, where you are referring specifically to soteria, is taken from Psalm 117. In all languages, it means "He has become to me a sacred salvation", not "a sacred Savior." Of course, someone who becomes my salv…
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It is from a manuscript owned by the St Shenouda Archimandrite Society in Los Angeles. What do you mean by grammatical mistakes?
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You want to transliterate an English text into Coptic? Or do you want to translate an English text into Coptic? There is a big difference in the two. Maybe you can tells us more about the text. Maybe it is already translated to/from Coptic (or anoth…
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Archdeacon,Very good find. I would only caution against saying the rites have faded away from the Coptic Church and we should go to the Ethiopians to see what we lost. Rites, like many other social phenomenon, occur organically in a complex way. The…
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Ok. Here you go. The two verses you're looking for are numbers 7 and 20 below. 1. Vnau `mpi`cmou pe vai@ `vnau `mpic`;oinoufi etcwtp@ `vnau tenhwc `epencwtyr@ pimairwmi `naga;oc. 2. Ou`c;oinoufi pe Maria@ ou`c;oinoufi qen tecneji@ ou`c;oinoufi acmi…
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Can you send the audio so we can look at it? I'm not sure what you mean by annual mohayyar.
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Now of course we can not hold to a Total Depravity theology. For if we were totally depraved with a flesh that always sins, then we could not be judged for any sins we do....unless Christ condemned sin in the flesh. Thus, in Romans 8, St Paul makes …
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My problem with that is that knowledge precedes choice. You cannot choose to sin, that is separate yourself from God, without knowing that you are sinning. Otherwise what are you choosing? You cannot sin without choosing to sin, and you cannot choos…
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Davidchanter, yes. That is my point. The Arabic translations are usually wrong. The actual text changed into classical Greek is χαῖρε μητήρ του σωτήρια (Shere mytyr tou swtyria). Ramez will have to confirm. Khephra, Copt-Greek is more than a mixtu…
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Agios Istin is not Greek. It is Copto-Greek which is completely unintelligible to Greeks. In addition, Coptic liturgical studies is not very interesting to Coptologists and Copto-Greek hymns (found no where else) is not very interesting to liturgist…
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The current Coptic/Greek text is approved with an asterisk. There is a modified Coptic/Greek text with a new translation that was approved as an appendix to the current Coptic text. In other words, the Rites committee of the Synod wants to leave the…
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Now look at biblical translations of Job 14:4,5. This is from the NKJV: "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! Since his days are determined," This translation, in my opinion, is rather loose. Nearly all other biblical translations…
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I'm going to throw a wrench into the discussion here to make everyone think a little deeper. I would like to hear from everyone. I hope someone can correct me if I am wrong or missing the mark (pun intended). The basic premise of my argument rests o…
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Technically, since all ancient Egyptian and Coptic music was transmitted orally and never musically transcribed, Khepra is correct. There is no way to know if any ancient Egyptian hymn survived into Coptic music. But there is a small possibility sin…
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Tobit,Thank you for your comments. I agree that we often forget our loyalties to our fathers and jump on a popularity bandwagon when it becomes convenient. This is human nature. However, comments made against HH Pope Shenouda's theology of theosis a…
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This whole thread highlights the insanity of the people in the church. Wailing and moaning about divorce but totally cool with the church becoming protestant. Its none of anyones business who gets divorced for what reason, it is between the couple a…
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I was going to write a long response to the blog Beekay posted refuting a lot of the content in it. But I felt it may be perceived as some sort of intolerance to people who hold this view. If people want me to do so, with the understanding that it h…
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Ioannes,You most certainly count, regardless of your ethnicity. You are a member of the body of Christ. Regardless of a survey or not, you are my brother, my father, my friend and my fellow Christian. Whatever you reasons for leaving the Church, I h…
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I don't think that's entirely correct Mina. A true widescreen powerpoint presentation is a setting within Microsoft Powerpoint. MS PP defaults to 4:3 aspect ratio. The Coptic presentations from St Shenouda were formatted on this 4:3 ratio and there …
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If you watch Bishop Rafail's video above around the 20:00 minute mark, he reinforces the idea that disruption in the Coptic Church has nothing to do with the elevation of diocesean bishops to the papacy. He used the example of St Mark's tumultuous t…
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Tobit, I am sorry for the misunderstanding. Yes, I meant mental health is not taken seriously by people at a cultural level. Thus people, not actual Egyptian psychiatrist and therapists, (self-)diagnose mental illness as demon possession and avoid p…
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I can't speak for Minasoliman or RO, but I'll give you my 2 cents and hopefully it will help. I think it all comes down to precise definitions. In the Coptic Church, there have been plenty of instances where people claimed demonic exorcism (or the o…
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Mina, we mostly agree with each other. I am simply adding a nuance: Either the canons for episcopal authority is applied universally or all so-called "violations" must be considered oikonomia. Thus, I think at a philosophical level, the creation of …
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Mina,We are now falling into the same loophole mess I explained in the previous post to Kahan. When we build a theology first, our practices are consistent. When we find practices without sound theology, we inconsistently justify these practices any…
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@minasoliman, First of all, a small correction: there were other Coptic popes were bishops before the 1929. More importantly, I have to disagree with one point you made. "HG Bishop Serapion and HG Bishop Youssef spoke about the ramifications of thi…