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If dust is immortal, then you've made God co-essential with creation. Immortality is not created; it is uncreated. God did not create divine nature. I can agree to disagree on your "one Adam and one Eve" doctrine, but the idea that immortality ca…
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Well, we will agree to disagree on that. I base my whole theology on Christ, and I think that's how the Church fathers based their whole theology as well. Theology is knowledge of God in Christ, not in man. Theology is about the New Adam and the …
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Good point...did not think of it that way. We were a small group, so it wasn't meant for a bigger setting
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When I was studying in the Caribbean, I wanted our prayer meetings to feel somewhat like home. I google image searched high quality Coptic icon jpeg's of Christ Pantocrator and the Theotokos, saved them, went to a print shop and asked for these two…
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So, is your main problem the number of "first human beings"? Do you believe only one male and one female should be dogma?
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Before I went to college, when I finished high school, I was a staunch anti-evolutionist because I ate everything Sunday School teachers taught. I was one of those kids who saw a future in the Church in the direction of people like Fr. Anthony Mess…
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I actually appreciate the fact that you explained it to me. That makes it much clearer, BUT there are other questions you have not answered. You still did not explain how dust makes man not intended to die. Can God create immortality out of dust?…
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Habibi, I'm very calm and I am careful not repeating things I already wrote, since the article says nothing new and I already refuted it. I'm trying now to understand you. You have not really answered my questions. You are vague in your answers.…
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2. How are you created from God when in fact your parents created you?My original, childhood, biblical understanding, no matter how immature it was, is as follows:God created the heavens and earth and EVERYTHING therein. He created mankind. I'm jus…
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1. How is creation from dust different than a more advanced dust of the ape?OK. Creation from dust means that Adam (as a person) and Eve as a person were created. They existed. It means that God did not intend for mankind to die physically NOR spir…
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Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on evolution: And here is Fr. Thomas Hopko giving a long series on Darwin and Orthodox Christianity:http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/series/darwin_and_christianity And if you like a Roman Catholic perspective, search…
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Because the goal of humanity is theosis, and the Logos was planning to become incarnate, whether or not man fell into sin. Adam and Eve and Noah are all typologically connected to the gospel of Christ in some way, whether you take them literally or…
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I'm not sure anyone can state that yet.
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Translation please?
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Have you ever heard of a saint bringing someone to Church to tell the people how great of a wonder-worker he is?
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I er on the side of caution. He has done other things that I am generally suspicious of, like his Protestantizing with the people, and accepting testimonials of others. I saw one recording when a Saidi woman came to do a testimony in front of him …
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There is only one slight problem. If all the bishops and priests think in the way you do, I would be at ease. But we shouldn't assume they think this is "ekonomia". In fact, I would bet the bishops are starting to think this is the "new normal". …
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Well, I am not sure what loophole I am making though. I never claimed to say HH Pope St. Kyrillos or HH Pope Shenouda were right about all things they did. I was just mentioning how they, along with other notable figures, saw the history of the si…
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Forgive me for the oversimplistic explanation of this dark period. Yes, there were other dark periods, and the one in the 20th century is not solely to be seen because of three uncanonical Popes, but I wanted to allude that three times in a row, th…
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He is not "the most prominent priest in Cairo" or "the whole Church". He has been popularized by media over his exorcisms, many of which involved Muslims. I am with RO on this one. He is to be taken with a miniscule part of a grain of salt.
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BUMP!
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Well, canceling the youth bishopric is detrimental only because it seems many dioceses depend on the youth bishopric. But in reality, nowadays, the youth bishopric is really not needed. HG Bishop Moussa, God bless him and strengthen him, is growin…
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Yes...letter to the Corinthians...sorry for the mistake. In fact, anything I'm quoting with the name St. Clement of Rome only comes from that letter. There is no other work we genuinely know of that is written by him. Anything else is either spuri…
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To me it means working hard and diligently, and not to lay around doing nothing. At that point our confidence builds up. But when we do nothing, we can't even look our employer to the face for our own personal guilt. In a spiritual way, it could …
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Very true...very often we have people who take matters into their own hands who end up Protestantizing the Church than allowing the Holy Spirit to organically evolve in the cultural context it is placed in.
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You make a good assessment of the canon law. I accept there are exceptions to the rule at times. Given our diocesan ambiguities at the moment, it seems reasonable to consider that the strict views of Fr. Peter in no contradicts his transfer. By t…
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The good servant receives the bread of his labour with confidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look his employer in the face. St. Clement of Rome, late first century.
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You make a good assessment of the canon law. I accept there are exceptions to the rule at times. Given our diocesan ambiguities at the moment, it seems reasonable to consider that the strict views of Fr. Peter in no contradicts his transfer.
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+10000000 To add another perspective, to strain and toil and despair over the literal details is the same mistake as the story of Genesis teaches, the temptation to eat of the tree of knowledge. This is a good indication that as we learn more, we …