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I found the interview where HH Pope Tawadros shares his views on the date of Easter. The discussion on this issue starts around the 46th minute.
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Zoxsasi, you are continuing to make the same mistake. How is that you are not seeing the "intelligent design" in the most simple things of life, like the rain, the clouds, the grass? How is you do not see intelligent design in how the water, the n…
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Here is the fallacy both of you are making. You are equating evolution and science in general with God. You think it has to be one or the other. If that was the case, as I said before, then you might as well say, "How can you believe in God and b…
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It is well known that the Tree of Life represent the Cross and Christ. They are to avoid "knowledge of good and evil" and choose life because that is more important. What is "true knowledge"? Consider a relationship with your mother. Is describin…
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Right now Zoxsasi, I'm concentrating on you. When I have the time, I can explain the other questions other people are asking. I recommend anyone here who wants to know more about evolution with easy to read language read Ken Miller's "Finding Darw…
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...If you believe in evolution... I'm going to refuse answering your question until you answer me this question. Do you believe in Satan?
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So in the end, when you say something like "did God or evolution create Adam and Eve", that is called a "false dichotomy". That is like me asking you, "Did God or the sperm/egg fusion create you". To a man with true faith in God, there is no contr…
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Dear Zoxsasi, One of the most interesting presuppositions I have seen with atheists and with Protestants is that if there is no hint of some sort of unexplainable event, but that if you can explain all of nature with science, then there is no God. …
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Ok...I saw them now. I will help you out on this issue. I think your questions need to be considered in light of your presuppositions, which are what is troubling you. When I get to a computer I will answer your questions.
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Hi Zoxsasi, I'll find you a message I wrote awhile ago. Give me some time.
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The first interview HH did with the 3 Coptic correspondents from different Coptic channels. I think it's called "Questions of the People". If you can google it in Arabic, you'll find it.
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I think I answered these questions in detail elsewhere, but let me address the "meaning to life". Let us suppose we are created directly from dust. Then we are all just ancestors of "dust" and that's it. The only meaning to life is simply what we…
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Very true! It seems like a program geared towards other people in Jerusalem. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other parts of this same narrator giving small lessons on the other churches, the Armenian, Syriac, Greek, Ethiopians, and various Cath…
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The first dean was St. Justus, who would later become the 5th successor to St. Mark, not to be mistaken with St. Justin Martyr as was portrayed in the video. (I'm up to the 12th minute, so I'm just commenting. Otherwise so far so good).
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We can have Coptic chaplaincies for those who refuse to speak in any other language ;) In the meantime, I agree with the blog post. Practical, and truly accommodating for all people, rather than make these churche's that exclude members based on la…
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I think that's fine. At least it makes for a presentable gift than just a website, and it comes recommended, which is what I sought. I doubt if she will ever go beyond the level of Coptic offered in the book, but she loves learning languages, and I'…
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I just bought it now. It said there was one left in stock, so I didn't want to wait just in case, but this is the one Rem? http://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0932727417
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Nabil Mattar's book sounds perfect! I would describe her as a beginner when it comes to Coptic, so I would like to get her a beginner's book, but of course not extremely simplistic as the website as you correctly pointed out.
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I'm not against some stories of the miracles. It's just that this particular one in the way you're describing it contradicts historical facts. Hagiography informs us of a lesson, and the lesson here is the holiness of St. Pishoy. But I don't take…
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I think the vision to St. Pishoy is just a pious tradition, but there's a mix-up. He never banished pagans and heretics. The only time he forced pagans to do anything was reperations to the Christians to return back their properties and Churches the…
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He did not make Christianity the state religion. He made Christianity legal and ended the persecution. Big difference. It was Emperor Theodosius about a half century later who made Christianity the official religion of the state.
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She is Hindu, she loves studying languages. I want to be a bit more subtle than that, something that can help her understand in a lesson-book format what the language is, and not just a book of prayers that she would have to decipher herself.
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Thank you :)
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No...that's not what I asked
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I was reading some reviews on "Coptic in 20 Lessons" by Layton, and I thought "that simple"?
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Sifaing, I'm with you that the Church shouldn't be involved in Phonetics, but to compare it to condemnation of something that was at the time considered heretical is a bit much. The Church, as Rem said earlier, felt a need to have liturgical accur…
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What in the world has this to do with heliocentricism? I don't think this committee ever claimed a certain dialect is heresy!
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Well, Leo also had his anti-Cyrillian moments in the Tome as well. To ignore that and make it sound like Cyril and Leo could have been in one mind in their respective theologies would be to ignore the obvious ignorance of Leo's Tome. Fr. Romanides …
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I know there's a hymns committee, and I agree that the rites and theology should be clarified in the Synod, but a phonetics committee seems to be a bit too much. Why not just have a group of scholars of Coptic phonetics? Why should the synod be in…
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I have heard in the recent past that we have also limited the manner of chanting the liturgy to a standard rather than allowing a diversity that existed among different areas of Egypt as well. I would have loved to hear the different liturgical tra…